Director, Global M&A, Strategy & Business Development
About The Position
LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com/. About the Role: 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.
Requirements
- Results driven – reliable and self-motivated, delivering high quality output in a timely manner, prioritizing and strategically thinking through implications of the work
- Problem solving – uses logic and rigorous methods to solve problems and can work comfortably with risk and uncertainty
- Comfort with ambiguity – able to break down complex problems and deal with ambiguity to drive problem solving and outcomes
- 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 and is open to change and experimentation
- Integrity and collaboration – seen as an individual who can present the truth in an appropriate and helpful manner and effectively collaborate with teams
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
- Identification and quantification of revenue synergies
- Managing external CDD providers
- Present acquisition cases to senior leadership
- Draft internal review and approval documentation
Benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
