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Director of Strategy & Corporate Development
Diebold
North Canton, OH, United States
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Description
The Director of Strategy & Corporate Development is an important role in the company’s Strategy & Corporate Development group. The role reports directly to the SVP, Strategy & Corporate Development in both strategy and corporate development activities. This is a highly visible position and a unique opportunity for a motivated and talented person to contribute to the leadership of the company, while also gaining a wealth of exposure to all aspects of plans to transform and grow the business. This position works at a fast pace in a collaborative team environment.
Overall Accountabilities:
Key accountabilities include:
• Working closely with the SVP, the Strategy & Corp. Dev. team, and the Executive Leadership Team (“ELT”) in developing the company’s strategy and executing the strategic initiatives in support of the strategic and financial plans
• Working very closely with the SVP and the VP Corporate Development in the execution of corporate development initiatives, including divestitures, acquisitions, and strategic relationships such as joint ventures or similar initiatives.
• Building strong relationships across the businesses (Retail and Banking), product (Systems, Software and Services) and enablement (Finance, HR, Legal, IT and other) across the company to achieve objectives, including collaborating with and supporting the heads of Strategy in each of the Retail and the Banking segments.
• Preparation of complete and robust business case analysis, financial projections and valuations, investment hypothesis and proposals.
• Playing a key role in the negotiation of strategic initiatives, including negotiating with third parties in divestitures and acquisitions, as appropriate and with support from senior members of the Strategy & Corp. Dev. team
• Source and develop industry relationships to be able to identify potential strategic initiatives, through meeting with investment banks, participating in industry events and conferences, identifying potential innovative companies for partnership and acquisition, and related activities.
• Supporting the senior leadership team with comprehensive analysis and decision support, as well as all aspects of corporate development.
• Leading multiple strategy and M&A projects, including identifying and evaluating potential divestiture and/or acquisition candidates, and playing an increasingly leadership role in driving the transaction execution process. This will often involve multiple projects concurrently and on tight timelines and with reporting deadlines to the ELT and Board of Directors. You will drive initial design and work planning as well as overseeing project progress and recommendation development.
• Participating in, and often leading, the development of tools and processes to ensure effective execution of both strategic planning and corporate development processes and projects. This will include, for example, due diligence processes, and require working collaboratively across the company, as well as third party providers (e.g. Legal, Accounting, Investment Banking).
• Lead the development of transition services planning and preparation, working collaboratively across the organization and, as appropriate, with third parties.
• Participate in the development of post-merger integration planning and preparation, including requirements scoping and resource planning.
Essential Functions
• Designing project plans – identifying objectives, scope, deliverables and work plan
• Managing cross-functional teams to execute on projects
• Identify and recommend process improvement and tool enhancements
• Designing and conducting financial and strategic analysis on a variety of strategy projects, including:
• Detailed company profitability assessment – for Diebold Nnixdorf and competitors
• Financial projections for strategic initiatives, including valuation models
• Assessing market size, growth and profitability for current and adjacent markets
• Conducting detailed competitive analysis, including assessing competitor strategies, business models, financial position and public market performance
• Working with third party providers such as legal, accounting and financial advisors
• Collect all required data/information and build models for the above analyses
• Assist with identification, evaluation, due diligence and execution of potential acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships and joint ventures
• Work closely with Businesses, Product and Enablement groups to execute annual strategic planning process
• Contribute to and ELT Quarterly Business Review / Strategy Committee meeting preparation of materials, presentations and coordination
• Contribute to Board of Directors meeting preparation and coordination
• Work with all levels of the organization to achieve objectives
Qualifications
• Undergraduate degree, with demonstrated capability and experience in economics, finance, accounting, business or other related analytical field is required
• MBA, CFA or other advanced financial analysis experience preferred
• 3-6 years of experience with a mix of experience in highly analytical roles - e.g., finance, corporate development, strategy consulting, or similar role(s), including analysis of public market and private market companies, including demonstrated experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestiture projects for public and/or private companies
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communications skills, including ability to synthesize data and information and prepare Executive and Board of Directors level presentations
• Demonstrate very strong analytical thinking and
.problem solving skills and the ability to learn and adapt quickly
• Possess strong Excel modeling skills - comfortable working with large amounts of data; relevant database (e.g. Access) desirable
• Experience in using services such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ, FactSet and other third party analytical tools is strongly preferred
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills including the ability to effectively work with personnel across all levels of the organization, and work under tight timelines
• International travel will be required
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.