Chief Investment Officer
About The Position
Magnolia Operating, LLC (d/b/a Magnolia Bakery) is seeking a Chief Investment Officer to design and execute proprietary investment and scaling frameworks for consumer brands. This role involves deploying institutional capital across multi-vertical brand platforms, establishing repeatable commercialization models for various brand types, and influencing best practices in consumer-focused private-equity capital deployment. The Chief Investment Officer will develop and implement differentiated capital deployment structures, introduce integrated brand commercialization strategies, and oversee high-visibility transactions to catalyze job creation and global brand development. This position will serve as the architect of Magnolia's evolution into a broader consumer investment platform, identifying scalable adjacencies and designing a platform architecture for multi-brand acquisition and incubation. Responsibilities include constructing and overseeing an integrated portfolio strategy, performing financial modeling and valuation analyses, leading negotiations and transaction execution, and overseeing post-investment integration and value-creation. The role also involves designing master franchise and international partnership frameworks to ensure brand equity and global consistency. 10% international travel is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
- 7 years of experience in the position offered or related.
- 7 years of experience with planning and implementing strategic and tactical business decisions, including oversight, creation, and execution of a company’s multi-year and multi-faceted business plan.
- 7 years of experience developing revenue-generating strategies for various properties and companies in the sports, entertainment, consumer, technology, and media industries and pursuing international business opportunities from an investment and business development perspective.
- 7 years of experience performing financial and strategic evaluations for potential investments, negotiating and managing contract processes, and conducting deal analyses.
- 7 years of experience consulting and coordinating with various departments to develop annual budgets, including personnel needs and internal growth projections.
- 7 years of experience developing integrated financial investment strategies and portfolios for building and maintaining properties’ market positions in respective industries.
- 7 years of experience preserving the market position and branding of operating companies within corporate portfolio to ensure investment productivity and efficiency.
- 7 years of experience developing and implementing investment strategies and executing on such strategies by conducting market research, prospecting, and negotiating transactions end-to-end.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute proprietary investment and scaling frameworks for consumer brands.
- Deploy institutional capital across multi-vertical brand platforms.
- Establish repeatable commercialization models for food, lifestyle, and experiential brands.
- Influence best practices in consumer-focused private-equity capital deployment.
- Develop and implement differentiated capital deployment structures tailored to consumer-brand incubation and scaling.
- Introduce integrated brand commercialization strategies that bridge food, retail, lifestyle, and experiential verticals.
- Oversee high-visibility transactions and catalyze job creation, domestic economic expansion, and global brand development through disciplined investment execution.
- Plan and execute the Company’s multi-year, multi-faceted strategic business plan.
- Serve as the architect of Magnolia’s evolution into a broader consumer investment platform.
- Identify scalable adjacencies across food, lifestyle, hospitality, retail, and sports/entertainment.
- Design long-term platform architecture capable of supporting multi-brand acquisition and incubation.
- Construct and oversee an integrated portfolio strategy across operating entities.
- Perform and supervise detailed financial modeling, valuation analyses, and strategic scenario planning.
- Lead end-to-end negotiation and execution of investment transactions.
- Oversee post-investment integration and value-creation execution.
- Design master franchise and international partnership frameworks.
- Ensure preservation of brand equity and global consistency across markets.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
