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Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & Development (all genders)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 6+ years
Job description
A senior role in a small, AI-enabled Corporate Strategy & Development team reporting to the Group CEO, balancing corporate development/M&A with corporate strategy. The Associate Director leads projects end to end, guides junior colleagues, and stays hands-on building models and executive-level outputs.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Lead M&A projects end to end, from target screening and valuation through due diligence, negotiation preparation, and post-deal integration
- Own small and mid-sized transactions independently and partner with the Director on the largest, transformational deals
- Run deal teams day to day, coordinate external advisors and act as the lead with target management teams or their advisors
- Form and defend a point of view on whether and why a deal makes strategic sense and present it directly to senior leadership
- Lead the strategic analysis and recommendations for key portfolio decisions, including potential geo-expansions, new vertical or brand launches or divestments
- Contribute to the development of the Group's mid-term strategy by driving the process, owning the underlying analysis, strategic synthesis, and preparation of strategic documents
- Own and develop analytical frameworks and models to support strategic budget allocation and ROI analysis
- Act as a senior internal consultant, supporting key business units across geographies on a project-by-project basis to develop their mid-term strategies and solve their most complex challenges
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of high-performance experience from a top-tier Management Consulting firm, Investment Banking, or a comparable in-house Strategy / Corporate Development team, including leading projects or deal teams with minimal supervision
- Led complex, multi-stakeholder processes to a deadline, coordinating internal functions and external advisors and managing senior counterparties such as target or client management teams
- Guided and developed more junior colleagues and influenced senior stakeholders, including through negotiation and building rapport with counterparties
- Exceptional qualitative and analytical problem-solving skills; hypothesis-driven and able to own and structure complex analytical problems end-to-end
- Structures ambiguous problems and sets direction for others
- Utilizes AI tools to meaningfully improve productivity
- Expert-level financial modeling skills: has built and defended complex models used for high-stakes investment or strategic decisions
- Comfortable working with typical DTC KPIs like CAC, AOR, AOV, CLV, retention and understanding how cohort economics build a P&L over time
- Proactive 360° communication and excellent ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, concise storylines, presentations and memos for an executive audience
- Takes ownership of outcomes and pressure-tests own conclusions before presenting them; goes deep into the analysis and knows when it is good enough to decide
Nice to have
- Direct M&A process experience
- Valuation experience
- Ability to build applications with AI coding tools
- DTC marketing analytics experience
Your team
Corporate Strategy & Development
A small, AI enabled team of highly driven and committed individuals that reports directly to the Group CEO
Benefits
- Join one of Europe's fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion
- Diverse global community of 90+ nationalities
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- Diverse global community of 90+ nationalities