Location: This role is ideally UK based, with international travel as required.
Recruiter contact: David McFall
Closing Date: 04/04/2025
Mott MacDonald continues to evolve its market portfolio as it drives forward with its programme of targeted growth, both organic and in-organic. This is a new strategic role within our Group Business Services team reporting to the Group Strategy Manager. This role will bring additional capacity to the current team to support on the full range of strategic activity, with a specific focus on mergers & acquisition activity being undertaken across the global business interests of Mott MacDonald.
Key Responsibilities
You will engage across the full range of our M&A activity including:
* Pre-market preparation of business cases for both buy-side and sell-side opportunities
* Proactively support and where appropriate lead on due diligence activity
* Engage in the commercial negotiation to conclude M&A transactions.
* Support the post completion activity to deliver on business case objectives
* Undertaken downstream reviews to identify opportunities for improvement.
* Project manage the M&A process from inception to completion.
* Prepare business cases, including financial models, and present these to senior stakeholders.
In addition, you will also have the opportunity to engage in the incremental strategic change needed to deliver our ambitions for growth, focus and efficiency. This will include:
* Running diagnostic programmes and helping to craft solutions in areas of strategic interest both externally and internally,
* Using a wide range of data sources, and designing and putting in place programmes to provide assurance of our performance trends.
* Engagement with Regional leadership teams to understand local market context and dynamics
Role Purpose
This role is ideally UK based, with international travel as required.
Candidate Specification
* Good analytical and lateral thinking skills, an ability to interrogate and synthesise findings from internal and external data, an open and curious mind, objectivity, openness to multiple perspectives
* Mergers and Acquisition experience as demonstrated by deal track record
* Excellent negotiation skills – ability to quickly build rapport, credibility, and trust at a Senior Level
* Sound commercial judgement and an ability to generate creative solutions to problems and 'think on your feet';
* Demonstrate strong financial acumen and a solid understanding of financial statements;
We can offer (subject to Company’s policy):
* Agile and safe working environment
* Competitive annual leave and sick leaves
* Group term life insurance, Workmen’s compensation and Group medical insurance coverage
* Short and Long-term Global employment opportunities
* Global collaboration and knowledge sharing
* Digital Innovation and Transformation
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.
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