For operators and searchers
Run it like you own it. Because you will.
You won’t work for us. You’ll work with us — and you’ll have skin in the game.
We are engaged owners who stay out of the way.
Those two things sound contradictory and are not. Kindred is a lean holding company. We look for attractive investments and entrust operating decisions and execution to the management teams inside our businesses, because the entrepreneurial impulse dies the moment head office starts making them.
Our decentralised model offers autonomy and independence, trusting and empowering skilled and energetic entrepreneurs of strong character. We will partner in the best interests of the business.
Yours
What autonomy actually means
- You run the business. Hiring, pricing, customers, product — yours.
- No imposed synergies or integrations, no shared services you didn’t ask for, no group templates.
- Reporting is what a sensible owner needs, not what a fund needs.
Ours
And what we provide
- Appropriate accountability, oversight and governance guardrails. Shunning bureaucracy is not the same as shunning discipline.
- Time, resources, advice, capital and best-practice sharing across the group.
- Care — because we understand that leadership can be lonely.
- Real incentives. Operating partners are highly incentivised and participate in long-term value creation. We recognise performance and reward it handsomely.
What we look for in an operating partner
Managers with a demonstrated record of behaving like an owner.
Customer, team and stakeholder-obsessed, long-term focused, adaptive, and disciplined with both expenses and capital.
- A principled principal. An owner, not an agent.
- Willing to have skin in the game, exposed to the downside as well as the upside.
- Never satisfied. Action-oriented, relentlessly improving themselves, their team and their business.
- Resourceful, waging war against waste.
- A lifelong learner, fuelled by humility and curiosity.
- Transparent — Delivers bad news quickly, and asks for help when it’s needed.
- A team player who puts the business and its people ahead of themselves, and enjoys the journey.
If you’re willing to back yourself, get in touch.
Whether you’re searching, or already running something and capable of more than your current employer can or will offer — we’d love to hear from you.