Mergers & Acquisitions Director

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. 
 
Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

The Opportunity

This role will support growth and strategy execution by leading merger, acquisition, and divestiture efforts in line with Black & Veatch’s active portfolio management.  Scope includes sourcing, evaluation, due diligence, negotiation, transaction support, and integration activities. This role will interact with key leaders in corporate functions including Finance, HR, Legal, IT and various project & technology subject matter experts to assemble deal teams.  This role will be the primary liaison and maintain relationships with external partners, targets, and investment bankers.  This role will work closely with Black & Veatch executive leadership and Board of Directors on strategies, goals, recommended actions, and approvals. Success in this role will be measured by positive earnings impact, successful integrations, and creating an environment where M&A becomes a more accessible, repeatable lever for growth.   

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Business Enablement consists of critical groups that help enable the organizations people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible.   Functions in this group include Digital & Information Technology, Global Finance, Global Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, and Government Affairs and Real Estate and Building Services. 

Key Responsibilities

• Work with strategy and business leaders to identify opportunities for inorganic growth. Examples may include opportunities for geographic expansion, product/service adjacencies, disruptive technologies and/or business models. 
• Assemble deal teams to support the full lifecycle of merger, acquisition, divestiture transactions. It is possible that 1-2 deal teams may be active at any time. 
• Align talent resources to assess culture fit and gaps between Black & Veatch and target organizations. 
• Establish and document procedures for sourcing, evaluation, due diligence, negotiation, transaction support and integration in line with risk management practices. 
• Work with subject matter experts to build library of tools and templates for use in merger, acquisition, divestiture transactions.  Examples include financial modeling, terms and conditions, integration workplans. 
• Establish process to receive & disposition inbound leads from internal / external sources. 
• Build presentations, briefs, business cases to support recommendations and present to Black & Veatch executive team and Board of Directors 
• Interface with external partners including investment bankers and lenders. 
• Establish metrics to measure effectiveness of M&A processes and integration success, including incremental EBITDA. 
• Plays an active role in development of others; serves as mentor or coach to one or more other professionals 
• Other corporate development and strategy execution projects as assigned 
• Support continuous improvement efforts and the change management effects associated with these efforts. 

Management Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading or participating in mergers, acquisitions, vendor management and/or partnering programs that have contributed to professional development, improved financial performance, and/or market growth
• Demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate with a large group of professionals
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years’ work experience in banking, financial services, management consulting, strategic planning, corporate development 
• Experience in investment banking, private equity, and/or venture capital 
• Strong project management capabilities, including professional certification in project delivery methodology, examples include Lean, Six Sigma, PMI, Organizational Effectiveness 
• Demonstrated ability to influence and work collaboratively with stakeholders inside and outside of Black & Veatch  

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Salary Plan

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