Senior Director – Mergers & Acquisitions

🔥 12 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $227k - $340.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Lamb Weston

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🛒 Retail

Manufacturing • Food & Beverage • Retail

Lamb Weston is a leading provider of frozen potato products, offering a wide range of fries, sweet potatoes, and appetizers. With a focus on quality and innovation, Lamb Weston serves retail and foodservice customers globally. The company is known for its seasoned fries and its commitment to sustainability, providing products that stay crispy and meet diverse culinary needs. Lamb Weston also offers resources and solutions to help restaurants and operators enhance their menus and improve customer satisfaction. The company operates worldwide, emphasizing local growing practices and sustainable packaging. With over 70 years in the industry, Lamb Weston continues to deliver high-quality potato products to delight its customers.

📋 Description

• Serve as the Company's lead to Corporate M&A and principal advisor to the CFO, CEO, and Executive Chairman on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and strategic investments • Determine where the Company deploys capital and identify transformational opportunities • Lead transaction execution and drive value realization following close • Partner with Corporate Strategy leadership to shape and execute Lamb Weston's inorganic growth agenda • Identify, evaluate, and prioritize acquisition, partnership, joint venture, and investment opportunities • Develop M&A investment theses aligned with long-term growth objectives • Monitor industry trends, competitive dynamics, market disruptions, and emerging opportunities • Maintain executive-level relationships with investment bankers, advisors, and potential transaction counterparties • Source and evaluate acquisition opportunities • Build and oversee valuation, financial modeling, and scenario-planning analyses • Lead negotiations alongside senior executives and external advisors • Direct comprehensive financial, operational, commercial, tax, human resources, and legal due diligence • Structure transactions to maximize strategic and financial outcomes, realize synergies, and minimize risks and integration challenges • Prepare investment recommendations for executive leadership and the Board • Lead deal execution through signing and close • Develop synergy cases and investment return frameworks • Partner with business leaders to establish integration priorities and accountability • Support post-close integration planning and execution • Monitor value realization and identify opportunities to accelerate returns • Present complex financial and strategic analyses to senior executives • Provide recommendations on significant investment opportunities • Support enterprise capital allocation decisions • Advise leadership on strategic alternatives, risks, and value creation opportunities • Mentor high-potential finance talent • Lead a team of Analyst or Manager and direct ad hoc cross-functional teams • Contribute to the evolution of the Company's strategic finance capabilities • Develop an enterprise-wide business perspective beyond M&A execution

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field • 8+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, strategic finance or M&A advisory • Significant transaction experience involving acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, strategic investments, or joint ventures • Advanced financial modeling and valuation expertise • Strong commercial judgment and analytical rigor • Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and business leaders • Exceptional written, presentation, and communication skills • Experience managing multiple strategic priorities in a fast-paced environment • Vice President or equivalent experience within a leading investment banking, private equity, or corporate development organization • Experience working with public company boards and executive leadership teams • Experience in multinational organizations • Understanding of regulatory, governance, and compliance considerations associated with strategic transactions

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision • Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care • Health Reimbursement Accounts • Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program • Paid Time Off • Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions • Financial Planning Services • Employee Stock purchase program • Health Savings Accounts • Life and Accident insurance • Family-Friendly Employee events • Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services • Compensation and bonus incentive programs