Director, Global M&A Strategy and Business Development

RELX•Alpharetta, GA

9d•$136,100 - $252,800

About The Position

The Director, Global M&A, Strategy and Business Development reports to the VP, Head of Global M&A and helps drive LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ inorganic business strategy to maintain and enhance the company’s competitive position and growth. The role works with internal strategy, product, and commercial leaders to identify growth opportunities, assess acquisition targets, develop acquisition cases, and support senior leadership decision-making. The position interfaces with LexisNexis Risk Solutions senior leaders, including the C-Suite and Business Unit Leaders, the LNRS Strategy and Business Development team, and key leaders of RELX. The role requires strategic and quantitative analysis, market and competitive research, acquisition pipeline development, diligence management, and clear communication of recommendations to senior leadership.

Requirements

3–5+ years of post-MBA experience in strategy consulting, private equity, investment banking, or corporate finance with a top-tier firm.
Deep knowledge of market research, analytics, or data science in complex industries such as financial services, insurance, transportation, or energy.
Extensive experience identifying, framing, and structuring strategic analyses and developing well-supported recommendations.
Proven ability to conduct and manage quantitative analyses, including modeling in MS Excel.
Strong MS PowerPoint and Word skills.
Executive presence and ability to inspire stakeholder confidence and build followership with team members at all levels.
Creative, intellectually curious, self-motivated, high-energy, and able to work in a high-demand, performance-driven environment.
Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel and demonstrate strong leadership and credibility with team members and senior management.
Results-driven, reliable, and self-motivated, with the ability to deliver high-quality work promptly, prioritize, and consider strategic implications.
Strong problem-solving ability, using logic and rigorous methods and working comfortably with risk and uncertainty.
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to break down complex problems and drive outcomes.
Organizational agility and ability to get things done through formal and informal networks.
Ability to learn quickly when facing new problems and openness to change and experimentation.
Integrity and collaboration, including the ability to present the truth appropriately and helpfully and collaborate effectively with teams.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience focused on inorganic strategy projects, such as commercial due diligence for corporate acquisitions or private equity.
Transactional experience, such as investment banking, private equity, or in-house M&A/corporate development, including familiarity with M&A processes and corporate finance such as valuation analysis.
MBA from a top-tier school.
Undergraduate degree in STEM or business.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic projects to identify priority areas for acquisition-led expansion and develop acquisition hypotheses.
Work with LNRS Strategy, Product, and other commercial leaders to identify growth opportunities.
Monitor market developments and trends through customer and competitive research, industry conferences, and industry news.
Assess opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Summarize analyses and recommendations in presentations and papers.
Develop and maintain the global acquisition pipeline, including relationships with acquisition targets and industry contacts.
Gather information on companies through desk research and interviews.
Evaluate pipeline companies 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; identification and quantification of revenue synergies; and management of external commercial due diligence providers.
Present acquisition cases to senior leadership.
Draft internal review and approval documentation.
Manage diligence workstreams, identify key challenges, and drive cross-functional alignment on implications and the path forward.