# Vice President, M&A Origination

**Company**: CSC Generation
**Location**: Los Angeles, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

CSC Generation is seeking a Vice President, M&A Origination to lead the origination strategy for its acquisition pipeline. The successful candidate will be responsible for setting the strategy for where to look and why, building relationships that produce proprietary opportunities, and surfacing businesses that fit CSC's acquisition criteria.

Responsibilities:

- Origination Strategy & Market Coverage: Own the origination strategy end to end, size each market, map the universe of companies that fit CSC's acquisition criteria, identify new categories for expansion, and set the bolt-on strategy for existing platforms.

- Deal Sourcing & Relationship Management: Source proprietary opportunities directly from owners, founders, and management teams, build and systematize the intermediary network, and represent CSC in conversations with owners, boards, and advisors.

- Qualification, Execution & Pipeline Discipline: Screen opportunities against investment criteria, build the initial commercial case, and present a clear recommendation to the investment team.

- Team & Network Building: Design and run referral and external advisor programs, develop junior origination talent, and set the standard for how origination is executed across CSC.

Requirements:

- 10–15 years in private equity, investment banking, or a comparable principal-investing environment with business development or deal origination as a major component of the role.

- Track record of sourcing transactions that closed at volume.

- Deep, current network across bankers, brokers, corporate development teams, lenders, and advisors in the middle market.

- Investing judgment sufficient to evaluate whether an opportunity is worth pursuing.

- Proven ability to build a funnel from scratch.

- Fluency with sourcing and CRM platforms.

- Comfort managing a pipeline quantitatively.

- Willingness to travel regularly.

Benefits:

- Executive Access: Work directly with C-suite leadership and brand CEOs.

- Portfolio-Wide Leadership: Shape the origination strategy for a growing holding company with 13+ brands.

- Build the Function: Define how CSC Generation finds and wins its next acquisitions.

- Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision, and employee discounts across the portfolio of brands.

## Skills

### Required
- private equity
- investment banking
- deal origination
- business development
- sourcing transactions
- CRM platforms
- AI tooling

### Nice to have
- consumer
- retail
- ecommerce
- multi-unit businesses
- carve-outs
- distressed
- special-situations transactions
- deal financing

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