What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Corporate Development & Strategy position at ANDMORE?
ANDMORE is an omnichannel wholesale marketmaker that fuels opportunities for wholesale buyers and sellers to connect, grow and prosper through physical markets, design centers, and digital channels. The company owns and operates more than 20 million square feet of premium event and showroom space, hosting live events in Atlanta, High Point, N.C., Las Vegas, and New York City. By pairing face-to-face events with always-on digital channels, ANDMORE provides truly omnichannel business platforms for its global customer base.
What You’ll Do
The Senior Director, Corporate Development & Strategy is an important leadership role in supporting the vision and delivering on the ambition of the company. This position will develop, lead and inspire a high-performing team of professionals to not only execute our in-year and multi-year strategies, but to drive transformational change across the organization to meet our bold ambition. To achieve this, the role focus will span three critical areas: supporting the development of the organizational strategy, shaping, delivering and championing transformational initiatives, and guiding development activities to drive growth and competitive advantage.
Position Responsibilities
Corporate Strategy:
Our Team Members are our most critical asset. The foundation for our success is built on teamwork, talent, creativity, hard work, and dedication. Together, we truly have a transformational opportunity to positively impact the industries in which we work. We are pleased to offer a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services that you would expect to see at a great company like ANDMORE including competitive medical, dental, vision, EAP, FSA, and 401k Retirement Match to name just a few. There are also a few differentiators like unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, BYOD (cell phone compensation), tuition reimbursement, Workplace Rewards providing discounts to a wide variety of consumer products and services, a “seed” grant of at least $750 annually into your Value HSA Plan, and considerably more!
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: ANDMORE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About ANDMORE
ANDMORE is an omnichannel wholesale marketmaker that fuels opportunities for wholesale buyers and sellers to connect, grow and prosper through physical markets, design centers, and digital channels.
We are unique in that we own and operate the largest wholesale showroom buildings in the world where retailers and designers come to purchase products for their stores or clients – like a shopping mall for wholesalers. We also recognize that purchasing happens all year long, not just during market weeks, so we provide digital opportunities for buyers and sellers to connect anytime, anywhere as customer needs dictate.
ANDMORE is a Blackstone and Fireside Investments portfolio company. For more information, visit www.ANDMORE.com.
What You’ll Do
The Senior Director, Corporate Development & Strategy is an important leadership role in supporting the vision and delivering on the ambition of the company. This position will develop, lead and inspire a high-performing team of professionals to not only execute our in-year and multi-year strategies, but to drive transformational change across the organization to meet our bold ambition. To achieve this, the role focus will span three critical areas: supporting the development of the organizational strategy, shaping, delivering and championing transformational initiatives, and guiding development activities to drive growth and competitive advantage.
Position Responsibilities
Corporate Strategy:
- Strategic Planning: Lead the execution of comprehensive enterprise strategies that align with the company’s mission and objectives. Collaborate with business unit leaders to pressure test and support development of compelling strategies, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
- Market & Industry Analysis: Conduct thorough analyses of market trends, competitive landscapes, and emerging opportunities. Apply the insights developed through analyses to support the creation of market-leading strategies.
- Executive Collaboration: Partner with executive leadership to communicate strategic plans and ensure organizational alignment.
- Design the Change: Design transformative initiatives for the enterprise and ensure that proposed changes are rooted in best practices and align with the Company’s long-term vision.
- Implement the Change: Drive the implementation of large-scale transformation initiatives by establishing clear goals, timelines, and metrics to measure success. Partner with leaders across the organization to ensure full delivery of value from design to execution, fostering organization-wide buy-in and engagement.
- Coordinate Functional Transformation Efforts: Act as a central leader in coordinating cross-functional transformational projects, working closely with function heads to ensure alignment, remove barriers, etc.
- Strategic pipeline: Monitor pipeline of M&A, JV, partnership and other strategic targets.
- Target evaluation: Support development of deal theses in line with the company’s broader strategy and conduct strategic target functional and commercial diligences; develop target valuations ultimately culminating in deal structure, negotiation, and finalization.
- Integration planning & execution: Coordinate with leaders in the seamless integration of strategic targets into the company's operations.
- Internal & External coordination: Support engagement with targets along with executive leadership team to ensure alignment across deal phases.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience in corporate strategy, development, investment banking, management consulting, or a related field with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree.
- Industry knowledge: Experience in real estate and/or real estate investing with a focus on retail or hospitality industries.
- Skilled in framing and tackling complex challenges, leveraging diverse analytical methods to craft effective solutions.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and persuasion abilities, adept at fostering collaboration, building relationships across all organizational levels, and driving outcomes - at time without direct authority over resources.
- Demonstrated success or ability to retain a highly engaged, high performing team; acting as a coach to mentor and develop the team, while also maintaining high standards for work outputs.
- Demonstrates strong self-motivation, consistently setting and accomplishing ambitious objectives.
- Strong analytical skills, fluency in performing rigorous financial, valuation, and broad quantitative analyses and familiarity with accounting and key operational metrics.
- A humble, “can do” attitude with a willingness to do any and all tasks to support the team to achieve a successful outcome.
- Proficient in Office 365 (including SharePoint) and JIRA Work Management.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
Our Team Members are our most critical asset. The foundation for our success is built on teamwork, talent, creativity, hard work, and dedication. Together, we truly have a transformational opportunity to positively impact the industries in which we work. We are pleased to offer a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services that you would expect to see at a great company like ANDMORE including competitive medical, dental, vision, EAP, FSA, and 401k Retirement Match to name just a few. There are also a few differentiators like unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, BYOD (cell phone compensation), tuition reimbursement, Workplace Rewards providing discounts to a wide variety of consumer products and services, a “seed” grant of at least $750 annually into your Value HSA Plan, and considerably more!
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: ANDMORE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About ANDMORE
ANDMORE is an omnichannel wholesale marketmaker that fuels opportunities for wholesale buyers and sellers to connect, grow and prosper through physical markets, design centers, and digital channels.
We are unique in that we own and operate the largest wholesale showroom buildings in the world where retailers and designers come to purchase products for their stores or clients – like a shopping mall for wholesalers. We also recognize that purchasing happens all year long, not just during market weeks, so we provide digital opportunities for buyers and sellers to connect anytime, anywhere as customer needs dictate.
ANDMORE is a Blackstone and Fireside Investments portfolio company. For more information, visit www.ANDMORE.com.
Salary : $750
