# Director, Global M&A, Strategy and Business Development

**Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
**Location**: Alpharetta, GA
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,100 - $252,800
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Director, Global M&A, Strategy and Business Development role will report to the VP, Head of Global M&A and will help drive the inorganic business strategy to maintain and enhance LNRS’s competitive position and growth.

Responsibilities:

- Lead strategic projects to identify priority areas for LNRS to expand through acquisition, and devise acquisition hypotheses for these areas.

- Work closely with LNRS Strategy, Product, and other commercial leaders to identify areas for growth.

- Maintain an understanding of key market developments and trends through customer and competitive research, industry conferences, and industry news.

- Assess opportunities by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis.

- Summarize analysis and recommendations in presentations and papers.

- Develop and maintain the global acquisition pipeline, including managing relationships with acquisition targets and industry contacts.

- Gather information on companies via desk research and interviews.

- Evaluate companies in the pipeline to identify priority targets.

- Support LNRS leadership in nurturing relationships with top priority targets.

- Develop acquisition cases for priority targets, including customer, competitor, and industry research and analysis.

- Present acquisition cases to senior leadership.

- Draft internal review and approval documentation.

- Management of diligence workstreams, identification of key challenges and driving cross-functional alignment around implications / path forward.

Interfaces with:

- The role will interface internally and partner with LexisNexis Risk Solutions senior leaders, including the C-Suite, Business Unit Leaders, the LNRS Strategy and Business Development team, as well as key leaders of RELX.

Requirements:

- Strategy Consulting Experience: 3-5+ years of post-MBA strategy consulting, private equity, investment banking or corporate finance experience with a top-tier firm.

- Relevant Industry Experience: deep knowledge in market research, analytics, or data science within complex industries such as financial services, insurance, transportation, or energy.

- Relevant functional Experience: experience focused on inorganic strategy projects such as Commercial Due Diligence for corporate acquisitions or private equity.

- Structured & Logical Thinking: extensive experience identifying, framing, and structuring strategic analysis and developing strong, well-supported recommendations.

- Analytical and Technical Aptitude: proven capability conducting and managing quantitative analyses, including modeling in MS Excel.

- Executive Presence: inspire confidence in stakeholders, while building followership with team members at all levels in the organization.

- Education: an MBA from a top-tier school and an undergraduate degree in STEM or business.

Additional Qualifications:

- Results driven – reliable and self-motivated, delivering high quality output in a timely manner.

- Problem solving – uses logic and rigorous methods to solve problems.

- Comfort with ambiguity – able to break down complex problems and deal with ambiguity.

- Organizational agility – knowledgeable about how organizations work and how to get things done through formal and informal networks.

- Learning on the fly – learns quickly when facing new problems to solve.

- Integrity and collaboration – seen as an individual who can present the truth in an appropriate and helpful manner.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $136,100 - $252,800.

## Skills

### Required
- strategy consulting
- private equity
- investment banking
- corporate finance
- M&A
- commercial due diligence
- data analysis
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word

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