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Director, Business Development
Asbury Group - Remote
Harris is seeking a Director of Business Development to work closely with our Frontline team with a mandate to continue driving the company’s inorganic growth. This position will play a key role in identifying, evaluating, and closing acquisition opportunities.
The ideal candidate is someone who is inherently curious, has mature interpersonal skills and a meticulous attention-to-detail. Prior M&A experience is critical and required, preference will be given to those with experience working in the software sector.
This is a great opportunity for someone who has either led M&A transactions in their current role or is playing a critical role in a hierarchical M&A organization and wants the opportunity to lead acquisition processes from start to finish. The successful applicant will join a prolific acquiror inside the highly successful acquisition culture of Constellation Software.
Location: Remote (United States or Canada)
What You Will Do / Your Day-to-day
M&A Execution
Asbury Group - Remote
Harris is seeking a Director of Business Development to work closely with our Frontline team with a mandate to continue driving the company’s inorganic growth. This position will play a key role in identifying, evaluating, and closing acquisition opportunities.
The ideal candidate is someone who is inherently curious, has mature interpersonal skills and a meticulous attention-to-detail. Prior M&A experience is critical and required, preference will be given to those with experience working in the software sector.
This is a great opportunity for someone who has either led M&A transactions in their current role or is playing a critical role in a hierarchical M&A organization and wants the opportunity to lead acquisition processes from start to finish. The successful applicant will join a prolific acquiror inside the highly successful acquisition culture of Constellation Software.
Location: Remote (United States or Canada)
What You Will Do / Your Day-to-day
M&A Execution
- After learning our business model and processes, you will lead acquisition transactions from initial evaluation through to integration handoff
- You will be responsible for financial modeling, due diligence (including project managing our functional and business unit teams), negotiation, investment approval and post-close monitoring for multiple M&A transactions per year
- Work with our multiple M&A business development specialists to ensure acquisition opportunities are being effectively nurtured and appropriately escalated to the M&A team.
- Maintain relationships with PSG’s existing network of acquisition targets and intermediaries through telephone calls and emails
- Internal reporting on pre-close acquisition activity and pipeline, post-close acquisition performance
- Some travel required (up to 10-25%)
- 3 years of relevant M&A experience (recent Corporate Development, Private Equity, Investment Banking, Venture Capital or M&A consulting experience is required)
- Expert Excel skills, including advanced experience with financial modeling and valuation
- Grasp of software and business technology markets, trends, and dynamics
- Exceptional organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with exceptional organization, prioritization and multi-tasking abilities who thrives on new challenges and takes initiative
- High energy & low ego
- Fluent in English
- Completion of an undergraduate or MBA degree
