Group Strategy

Who We Are

Verisure is Europe’s largest home security company, protecting close to 5.5 million families and small businesses across 17 countries in Europe and Latin America. Verisure is more than 5 times larger than the second largest player across its footprint, and continues gaining relative market share. On the current growth trajectory, we expect Verisure to be the world’s #1 Home Security player by 2027, if not before.

Latent demand for home security is high, and current penetration remains (very) low. Verisure’s track record is one of continuous, uninterrupted growth over more than 20 years. With high margins, and never a month with lower revenue or EBITDA than previous months. We expect this trajectory to continue. But this requires continuous effort. And strengthening our teams.

Job Description

We are looking to hire a talented, innovative, passionate Group Strategy and Development Manager to join our global Group Strategy and M&A team. The role will preferably be based in our Group Headquarters in Versoix (Geneva, Switzerland), and report into our Group Head of Strategy and M&A. (Note: depending on the candidate we might be open to Madrid as an alternative location).

You will work across the Group on topics of high impact and visibility to the whole management team, including the Group’s CEO, CFO, Chief Marketing Officer, as well as regional or country General Managers.

If you have strong strategy, finance, problem solving, influencing, and relationship-building skills, this role is an excellent platform to take your career to the next level and an opportunity unlikely to be found anywhere else. You will play a key role in developing a best-in-class Group Strategy function and will participate in a variety of strategy and finance projects, ranging from category & competition cartography, performance improvement initiatives, continuous inflow of M&A and strategic partnership opportunities, analysis of potential geographical expansion and adjacent business fields, and all equity and debt capital market transactions.

As Group Strategy & Development Manager you will be responsible for developing and continuously enriching a deep understanding of Verisure’s competitive environment and the category at large; generating strategic insights on the business environment, consumer expectations and fast evolving competitive context; and more importantly leading strategic groupwide and cross-country projects with direct impact on company performance and valuation. From time to time, as the company looks at a range of M&A, fundraising and equity transaction opportunities, you will lead or support the analysis of those opportunities, and help drive them to completion.

Key Job Responsibilities

Category Intelligence: continue strengthening Europe’s best intelligence department in our space. Home Security remains a little-know and little-researched sector, and bringing sharp category and competitive insights remains critical to executive and Board decisions.

Business improvement Initiatives: lead cross-group performance enhancement initiatives. Particularly with a view to sustaining / accelerating Verisure’s growth rate.

M&A: process relevant M&A and partnership opportunities. Most inbound proposals are gently turned down, some deserve pursuing from initial review to completion. Some add to our customer portfolio, others bring in state-of-the-art technologies (video analytics, Wi-Fi sensing, smart locks, AI).

Equity Storytelling: support the articulation and continuous improvement of the company’s storytelling to both equity and debt investors. Feeding general company presentations, the Groups’ annual reports, all debt Offering Memorandums, and equity transaction materials.

Swiss Knife: not all activities of the Group Strategy and M&A function can be properly identified upfront. The team is expected to be highly capable and agile, and able to run a range of projects and analyses to inform key corporate decisions; complete complex analytical exercises including advanced financial and valuation modelling; and (help) prepare management presentations and board materials.

Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

Top, successful educational background (engineering or business administration)

5+ years of experience in strategic consulting, investment banking, corporate development, VC or PE.

High EQ with high level of judgement and professional maturity.

Excellent modeling, problem solving, analytical and numerical skills.

Ability to handle well time pressure and multi-tasking in fast-paced situations.

High level of attention to detail, proactivity, and time management.

Self-starter capable of working independently and collaboratively across geographies and functions.

Resourcefulness (not all data is easy to find), insights (needle in a haystack) and creativity.

Excellent execution and project management skills.

Absolutely fluent in English. French and Spanish strong pluses.

About Verisure

People Who Protect People

We are the leading provider of professionally monitored alarms for residential households and small businesses in Europe, and a strong #2 in Latin America. Through our Arlo camera business we are also a leading provider of video-based security solutions to European families.

Peace of mind for families and small businesses

We believe it is a human right to feel safe and secure. We protect close to 5.5 million families and small businesses. Our service includes 24/7 monitoring, expert verification and response, customer care, service and maintenance services, and professional technical support. As well as protecting against intrusion, we protect against fire, attack, theft, life-threatening emergencies and other hazards. Verisure people are dedicated and committed and provide what we believe is the best customer service in the industry.

Leading across a broad footprint

We operate in 17 countries across Europe and Latin America. We are the largest home security provider in 13 of those 17 geographies. Our customers stay with us on average more than 15 years, longer than any of our direct peers, and much longer than Telcos or Pay Television operators. Our business is primarily driven by organic growth, based on our differentiated business model. We attract high quality customers, and work hard to ensure that our customers are happy.

A technology-enabled human services company

Our more than 25,000 team-mates are the foundation of our company. Our business model combines technology and human expertise to protect people. More than 80% of our colleagues interact with customers every day. This connection provides the insights that inspire our innovation.

A 35+ years old start-up

We have been protecting what matters most since 1988. Over that time, we have expanded beyond our roots in the Nordics and Spain. We now serve most of Europe and have established a strong presence in Latin America. – and we continue opening new geographies. In 2019, we formed a strategic partnership with Arlo, a world leader in connected cameras. Verisure also acquired Arlo’s European business. This allows us to offer best-in-class connected cameras in Europe as standalone products and services, and as a complement to our professionally monitored security service. It also allows us to access new go-to-market opportunities in retail and e-commerce.

Our winning DNA

Everything we do is driven by our DNA:

Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people have a sense of energy that is unmistakable, one that drives us to delight our customers and focus on creating impact quickly.

Committed to Making a Difference: When we say we will do something; we deliver with excellence. We are accountable, focused and operate with discipline.

Always Innovating: We believe that Innovation can be big or small; it’s a continuous state of mind that inspires us to think differently and always make things better. We are risk takers and we learn continuously.

Winning as a Team: Our people know that by leveraging one another’s strengths, investing in and developing our team’s capability and by collaborating well, we will win.

With Trust & Responsibility: Operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise. We do the right thing, always.