VP, Corporate Development

Kanbrick • Charlotte, NC

9h

About The Position

Kanbrick is a purpose-driven, long-term investment partner to owner-, family-, and founder-led businesses. We work hands-on with our companies to unlock their full potential through strong operations and people leadership, thinking in decades, not quarters.
The Kanbrick Business System (KBS) is our transformative approach to building long-term value by aligning people, process, and culture to strategy. The KBS team works hands-on across our partner companies to implement it. This role is based in Charlotte NC, sits on the KBS team and partners closely with our Investing team.
Our partner companies are active acquirers, and as the portfolio has grown, ensuring the right add-on opportunities are identified, evaluated, and executed well has become a core part of how we create value alongside them. We are creating a dedicated role to build that capability across our partner companies.
This is a senior, high-ownership role working directly with CEOs, embedded in how companies grow, with the opportunity to shape what a best-in-class add-on M&A function looks like across a portfolio of family- and founder-led businesses.

Requirements

• Deal credibility: You have personally owned deal processes end-to-end, not just coordinated them: you’ve built the financial modeling, worked the diligence, structured the LOI and managed the close. Partner company CEOs need to trust that you've done deals with real accountability.
• Coaching instinct: You get energy from making others better. You default to equipping a CEO and their teams rather than taking over. Patient, high-EQ, comfortable influencing without authority. You measure success by how capable the teams become over time, not by how many deals you personally drive.
• Process builder: You have built M&A infrastructure from scratch before. Acquisition strategy, market maps, sourcing playbooks, pipeline tracking, diligence checklists. You know what "good" looks like because you've designed it.
• VP-level in scope, with experience owning M&A processes end-to-end and influencing senior executives.
• Backgrounds that tend to translate well include: corporate development at a PE-backed platform company with an active acquisition strategy, operating roles where M&A was a meaningful part of the role, or a PE operating partner with hands-on deal experience. What matters most is what you’ve built and how you’ve worked.

Nice To Haves

• Sourcing network: Broker relationships and conference-circuit presence help, but a great candidate without a deep existing network can build one. We have market maps, portfolio CEO networks, and outbound infrastructure to support this.

Responsibilities

• M&A pipeline governance: monthly review cadence, pipeline quality, and overall health of corp dev execution at each company
• Deal quarterbacking where needed: LOI through close, coordinating across the operating company leadership team, Kanbrick investing team and KBS
• Judgment: serving as first line of defense on add-on quality and strategic fit
• CEO and executive team coaching and equipping: building M&A capability in partner company leaders over time
• Sourcing infrastructure: market maps, broker relationships, target lists, outbound campaigns

Benefits

• A collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• Opportunities to contribute meaningfully to the success of a growing investment partnership.
• Exposure to challenging and rewarding work.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees