Under the responsibility of the M&A Director, the M&A Senior Manager will play a crucial role in developing and implementing the Group’s acquisition strategy. You will contribute to establishing strategic partnerships and driving inorganic growth within a vibrant, creative ecosystem, and acting as a key advisor to senior executives, entrepreneurs, and shareholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic stakeholder Alignment
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Ensure seamless consistency between central Business Line strategies, local operations& opportunities and the Group’s global pillars & value creation objectives.
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Partner with Business Lines leadership and Country GMs to support the M&A strategy & roadmap, building consensus and ensuring strategic alignment across the organization
Deal strategy, sourcing & qualification:
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Drive the deal pipeline by identifying and vetting targets aligned with the Group’s strategy, central Business lines, and local units’ growth levers
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Develop and implement rigorous scoring frameworks, assessing criteria to prioritize acquisition targets
Deal execution:
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Execute comprehensive financial analyses. You bring a "hands-on" approach to our deal flow, showcasing a talent for "financial archaeology", extracting value and clarity from raw data to support informed decision-making in a fast-paced, small-cap environment
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Coordinate and oversee the conduct of the due diligence process, including business, financial, IP, legal, and tax reviews
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Prepare detailed investment memoranda and presentations for internal and external stakeholders, and recommendations to executive leadership
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Draft NBOs, Term Sheets, and lead in negotiating the deal structure, governance and legal documentation (e.g. SHA, SPA), with the assistance of the Senior M&A lawyer
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including Business, Legal, Finance and Product) to ensure thorough strategic vision, negotiation, execution of transactions and anticipate integration of the targets in close collaboration with the PMI team