Associate Director - Strategy - Corporate Development Team - Consulting Firm

What we are looking for

A company is seeking a talented and world-class leader to join its Corporate Development team. This role will be responsible for sourcing, evaluation, and execution of inorganic opportunities across all of the Company's business groups. The selected candidate will drive the end-to-end investment process, including building a pipeline of external opportunities, conducting industry research, determining strategic fit with Company, driving valuation analyses, organizing due diligence, presenting recommendations to Company business leadership teams and transaction execution.

What you will be doing

- Identify, assess and execute potential investment and acquisition transactions

- Drive all stages of the investment process including origination, valuation, due diligence, transaction execution, and integration

- Lead deal origination by building deep ties across the startup ecosystem - entrepreneurs, VCs, bankers, accelerators/incubators, and other industry participants

- Collaborate with internal teams to evaluate opportunities, analyzing the opportunity and presenting recommendations based on strategic fit, deal structure and transactional issues

- Manage relationships with professional advisors including bankers, lawyers and consultants

- Create optimal deal structures that will ensure long-term value creation for the Company and ensure that investee companies and their representatives will be aligned with Company

- Post investment work closely with the investee companies in ensuring value creation and realization for Company

What you should have

- The ideal candidate for this role would have experience working with Investment Banks in Technology vertical, venture capital, private equity or corporate development team at a technology company

- Understanding of the technology landscape and a strong network within the Indian startup ecosystem, including entrepreneurs and investors

- Good understanding of overall investment process including term sheets, diligence and definitive documentation

- Think Big - identify new areas of opportunity for Company, create investment strategies and evaluate key targets in partnership with business teams.

- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on deal strategy and all execution related aspects.

- Bachelor degree is required. MBA from top-tier universities is preferred.