Director, Global M&A Strategy and Business Development

LexisNexis Risk Solutions•Alpharetta, GA

About The Position

The Director, Global M&A, Strategy and Business Development helps drive LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ inorganic business strategy to maintain and enhance the company’s competitive position and growth. The role reports to the VP, Head of Global M&A and works with strategy, product, commercial, and senior leaders across LexisNexis Risk Solutions and RELX. The position leads strategic projects to identify priority acquisition areas and develop acquisition hypotheses. It assesses market opportunities and potential targets through research, interviews, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and financial modeling. The role develops acquisition cases and recommendations, manages acquisition-pipeline relationships, presents findings to senior leadership, prepares internal approval materials, and manages due-diligence workstreams and cross-functional alignment. The U.S. national base pay range is $136,100–$252,800, with geographic differentials potentially applicable. The role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. Country-specific benefits are offered.

Requirements

3–5+ years of post-MBA strategy consulting, private equity, investment banking, or corporate finance experience with a top-tier firm.
Deep knowledge of market research, analytics, or data science in a complex industry such as financial services, insurance, transportation, or energy.
Extensive experience identifying, framing, and structuring strategic analysis and developing well-supported recommendations.
Proven ability to conduct and manage quantitative analyses, including modeling in MS Excel.
Strong MS PowerPoint and Word skills.
Ability to inspire confidence in stakeholders and build followership among team members at all organizational 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 approach, sound prioritization, and ability to deliver high-quality work on time.
Strong problem-solving skills, comfort working with risk and uncertainty, and ability to handle ambiguity.
Organizational agility, ability to learn quickly, openness to change and experimentation, integrity, and effective collaboration.

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 and an undergraduate degree in STEM or business.

Responsibilities

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