Corporate Development & Strategy Lead

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $125k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Strategy

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TRAC Recruiting

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

TRAC Recruiting is a women-owned recruiting and staffing firm focused on high-quality, direct-hire placements across industries. The company emphasizes a “quality over quantity” model, building long-term partnerships with clients by deeply understanding their organizations and roles rather than relying on keyword matching. TRAC has particular experience supporting search funds, SaaS companies, and startups, and its team members each have 10+ years of staffing experience, specializing within different divisions to help clients scale effectively.

📋 Description

• Shape the company's acquisition strategy, investment criteria, and priority markets • Build and maintain a targeted pipeline of potential acquisition opportunities • Research markets, identify prospective targets, and develop relationships with business owners, founders, brokers, and industry contacts • Support initial outreach and prepare the Co-CEO for target conversations • Evaluate acquisition opportunities and determine whether they warrant further diligence • Build financial models covering company performance, valuation, transaction structure, returns, and financing scenarios • Lead commercial diligence and coordinate financial, legal, tax, technology, HR, and other diligence workstreams • Prepare investment analyses, executive presentations, Board materials, and transaction recommendations • Support transaction structuring, financing analysis, and negotiations with sellers and lenders • Develop Day 1 and first-100-day integration plans for completed acquisitions • Track post-close priorities, synergies, and value creation initiatives • Own one or two high-priority CEO-sponsored strategic initiatives between transactions • Develop structured approaches to ambiguous business questions, gather information, evaluate alternatives, and create actionable recommendations • Lead initiatives involving channel and distribution strategy, new-market expansion, cost optimization, data and analytics, digital and customer experience, technology and AI, product or service expansion, and strategic partnerships • Collaborate with Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Technology, Product, and external advisors • Translate complex financial and strategic analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations • Keep leadership informed on acquisition pipeline, transaction status, strategic initiatives, risks, and key decisions • Build relationships with founders, owners, executives, investors, and external stakeholders • Handle highly confidential information with sound judgment and discretion • Establish a proactive acquisition pipeline and repeatable acquisition evaluation process • Move active transactions through analysis, diligence, decision-making, and closing • Provide leadership and the Board with timely transaction analysis • Lead strategic initiatives from analysis through recommendation, pilot, implementation, or functional handoff • Enable the Co-CEO to focus on relationships, negotiations, major decisions, and running the business

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 5+ years of experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, management consulting, or a similar transaction-focused environment • Meaningful experience supporting or leading acquisitions through evaluation, diligence, approval, and closing • Strong financial modeling, accounting, valuation, and investment-analysis skills • Ability to manage complex, cross-functional workstreams and external advisors • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing materials for executives, investment committees, or Boards • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills • Ability to build credibility and relationships with founders, business owners, senior executives, and other stakeholders • Comfortable working with imperfect information and turning ambiguous problems into structured analysis and clear recommendations • Highly driven, intellectually curious, and comfortable taking ownership without needing significant direction • Bachelor's degree required • Must be living in the United States • Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time and direct hire role • Remote work • Opportunity for expanded leadership responsibilities • Broad exposure to the business • Meaningful influence on M&A and broader growth strategy