Director - Corporate Development

Job Description:

There’s never been a better time to join our team. The thousands of ESAB associates located around the world share a common set of goals and values that drive our success and unparalleled innovation in fabrication technology and specialty gas control equipment. At ESAB, we value and respect everyone’s uniqueness and know that our experiences as individuals strengthen our company. And we know that our ability to collaborate, transform, and empower one another is what makes us unstoppable.

With our culture of continuous improvement and innovation and our commitment to living our values, working at ESAB is a career experience like no other. We have more than 9,000 passionate associates in locations across six continents, and we empower our team members to shape the world we imagine every day.

If you have a strong desire to be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge innovations and solutions and positively impacts the community, please check out our career opportunities. We help serve a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, robotics, shipbuilding, and so much more.

Your Opportunity

The Director - Corporate Development will drive increased shareholder value through applying industry experience with proactive and creative deal sourcing that leads to transactions to consolidate and extend ESABs capabilities to new segments of opportunity in the fabrication technology segment.

This position will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of the ESAB growth strategy through the evaluation and execution of acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions. Director - Corporate Development will have responsibility for sourcing and executing transactions that align with the business’s strategic roadmap and that contribute to the company’s top-line and bottom-line growth while working collaboratively with the executive team and cross-functional groups, including Operations, Commercial, Product Management, HR, Finance, Tax, and Legal, in addition to external resources.

What you will do

• Develop deep intelligence and business model expertise in the Fabrication Technology and adjacent spaces.

• Work closely with the executive team and business unit leaders to develop a comprehensive acquisition and partnership strategic framework to guide focus areas and opportunity evaluation criteria.

• Build a pipeline of strategic opportunities by developing a network of key players in the industry from which to source potential transactions.

• Prepare detailed business cases and recommendations to the executive team and Board of Directors.

• Lead all aspects of deal execution, including research of targets, strategic and financial assessment, due diligence, transaction structuring, and negotiation.

• Responsible for monitoring progress and success post-deal (ROI measures, KPI achievements)

• Participate in corporate strategic planning process.

What we are looking for

• A passion for industrial markets and products

• Excellent project management and organization skills with the ability to seamlessly multi-task and lead multiple high-priority, time-sensitive initiatives in parallel.

• Expertise in developing business and investment cases, financial analysis and modeling, understanding legal agreements, and creating presentations.

• Strong experience analyzing and presenting all relevant market, industry, and company factors to support proactively identifying targets and priorities.

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with the experience and ability to effectively influence at all internal and external levels.

• Ability to contribute to high-level strategy, in addition to being a master of details and processes when needed.

• Track record of success in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment with the ability to be self-sufficient, proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguity.

• Self-driven, capable of working without significant support, seniority to interact with high level leaders in the organization, influencing on decisions.

• Experience working in a global or multi-national business is desired.

• Prefer a minimum of 8 to 10 years’ experience with at least 5 years’ experience leading deal teams in M&A-focused strategic consulting, investment banking, private

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required. MBA preferred.

Preferred

• Understanding of manufacturing industry

• Candidates local to Bethesda, MD will be given priority

Competencies & Behaviors Needed

• Exceptional communicator at all employee levels including senior executives

• Strong proponent of ESAB’s values and behaviors and EBX principles

• Drives continuous improvement

• Effective at building relationships and trust

• Strong collaboration skills across functions and business platforms

• Negotiates with associates with a respectful give-and-take approach, where decisions are shared

• Comfortable working in a global matrix organization

• Results-oriented with the ability to make decisions and to follow through on programs and policies which have been developed

• Bias for action; a sense of urgency; self-starter; moves with speed

• Focus on delivering results and continuous improvement

• Manages workload efficiently and effectively

• Agile mind; quick on one’s feet

• Prioritizes for maximum impact

• Good at synthesizing data and distilling key points

• Can dive deep into detail to support root cause analysis, yet understands the big picture

• Insightful, deductive reasoner, fact-based problem solver

• Influencing and driving performance without authority

Additional Key Attributes

• Integrity, credibility, and character with demonstrated ethical behaviors

• A team player and leader with the self-confidence, humility, and consultative skills to positively influence the business

• A tenacious, operationally minded individual with a strong work ethic

What we Offer

ESAB prides itself as a great place to start or continue a career in the manufacturing industry. With locations throughout the world, ESAB is a global company with a rich tradition of industry leadership. ESAB careers offer room for advancement, a trusted work atmosphere, generous benefits and much more.

There are many opportunities to build a career with ESAB in a wide range of roles. We have a strong, customer focused culture and continuously look for people who will add value to our businesses and to the products and services we offer.

Team oriented, involved associates are our most valuable resources, and we are passionate about attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent. Building the right team and giving them the right environment in which to work leads to solutions that help our customers win, which is a win for us, too.

At ESAB, you will find a multi-cultural work environment that values ideas, rewards initiative, and encourages involvement in the workplace and in the community. Your opportunities to learn, collaborate and achieve your goals are virtually unlimited.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of sex, color, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), religion, military/veteran status, national origin, marital status, family or caregiver responsibilities, or any other characteristic or status protected by law.