Corporate Development & Strategy Lead
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Corporate Development & Strategy Lead driving M&A, transaction execution, and strategic growth initiatives. Partnering with the CEO of a growing travel and tour company.
Responsibilities:
- Shape the company's acquisition strategy, investment criteria, and priority markets
- Build and maintain a targeted pipeline of potential acquisition opportunities
- Research markets, identify prospective targets, and develop relationships with business owners, founders, brokers, and industry contacts
- Support initial outreach and prepare the Co-CEO for target conversations
- Evaluate acquisition opportunities and determine whether they warrant further diligence
- Build financial models covering company performance, valuation, transaction structure, returns, and financing scenarios
- Lead commercial diligence and coordinate financial, legal, tax, technology, HR, and other diligence workstreams
- Prepare investment analyses, executive presentations, Board materials, and transaction recommendations
- Support transaction structuring, financing analysis, and negotiations with sellers and lenders
- Develop Day 1 and first-100-day integration plans for completed acquisitions
- Track post-close priorities, synergies, and value creation initiatives
- Own one or two high-priority CEO-sponsored strategic initiatives between transactions
- Develop structured approaches to ambiguous business questions, gather information, evaluate alternatives, and create actionable recommendations
- Lead initiatives involving channel and distribution strategy, new-market expansion, cost optimization, data and analytics, digital and customer experience, technology and AI, product or service expansion, and strategic partnerships
- Collaborate with Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Technology, Product, and external advisors
- Translate complex financial and strategic analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations
- Keep leadership informed on acquisition pipeline, transaction status, strategic initiatives, risks, and key decisions
- Build relationships with founders, owners, executives, investors, and external stakeholders
- Handle highly confidential information with sound judgment and discretion
- Establish a proactive acquisition pipeline and repeatable acquisition evaluation process
- Move active transactions through analysis, diligence, decision-making, and closing
- Provide leadership and the Board with timely transaction analysis
- Lead strategic initiatives from analysis through recommendation, pilot, implementation, or functional handoff
- Enable the Co-CEO to focus on relationships, negotiations, major decisions, and running the business
Requirements:
- Approximately 5+ years of experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, management consulting, or a similar transaction-focused environment
- Meaningful experience supporting or leading acquisitions through evaluation, diligence, approval, and closing
- Strong financial modeling, accounting, valuation, and investment-analysis skills
- Ability to manage complex, cross-functional workstreams and external advisors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing materials for executives, investment committees, or Boards
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Ability to build credibility and relationships with founders, business owners, senior executives, and other stakeholders
- Comfortable working with imperfect information and turning ambiguous problems into structured analysis and clear recommendations
- Highly driven, intellectually curious, and comfortable taking ownership without needing significant direction
- Bachelor's degree required
- Must be living in the United States
- Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship
Benefits:
- Full-time and direct hire role
- Remote work
- Opportunity for expanded leadership responsibilities
- Broad exposure to the business
- Meaningful influence on M&A and broader growth strategy
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