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The Senior Manager, M&A plays a critical role in executing Vertiv’s inorganic growth strategy by leading complex transaction activities end‑to‑end, including opportunity evaluation, due diligence, and deal execution. This role operates at both an operational and strategic level—driving deal strategy, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring successful execution of high-impact transactions aligned with business objectives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Opportunity Evaluation
- Lead development of investment theses for acquisitions, divestitures, and partnerships aligned to business strategy
- Own complex valuation analyses (DCF, comparables, scenario modeling) and assess strategic fit, risks, and value creation opportunities
- Partner with senior business leaders to shape financial forecasts, synergy assumptions, and deal rationale
- Present recommendations and insights to senior leadership, influencing decision-making on transaction priorities
Transaction Leadership & Execution
- Lead cross-functional due diligence efforts, coordinating internal stakeholders and external advisors across multiple workstreams
- Direct financial diligence, identifying key risks, validating assumptions, and refining valuation models
- Drive issue identification, risk mitigation strategies, and integration considerations during deal execution
- Support negotiation strategy with fact-based insights and financial analytics to optimize deal outcomes
Program & Stakeholder Management
- Manage multiple concurrent transactions, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables
- Influence senior stakeholders across Finance, Strategy, Legal, and Business Units to drive decisions and resolve issues
- Establish governance, reporting cadence, and executive updates for active deals
- Mentor and guide junior team members and analysts supporting transaction work
Integration & Value Realization
- Partner with integration teams to ensure continuity from diligence to execution of synergy capture plans
- Track and evaluate post-close performance against deal assumptions and value creation targets
- Identify lessons learned to inform future transaction strategy
KEY CAPABILITIES
- Advanced Financial & Strategic Acumen: Ability to translate complex analyses into clear business insights and recommendations
- Enterprise Influence: Proven ability to influence stakeholders across functions and seniority levels
- Leadership & Team Development: Experience leading or mentoring team members on complex workstreams
- Decision-Making in Ambiguity: Navigates moderately complex, high-impact decisions with incomplete information
- Execution Excellence: Drives multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously with strong project governance
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business or related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or consulting
- Demonstrated experience leading M&A transactions or major workstreams end-to-end
- Strong financial modeling and valuation expertise
Preferred:
- MBA or advanced degree
- Experience in industrial manufacturing, critical infrastructure, or related sectors
- Exposure to global / cross-border transactions
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The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
- Customer Focus
- Operational Excellence
- High-Performance Culture
- Innovation
- Financial Strength
OUR BEHAVIORS
- Own It
- Act With Urgency
- Foster a Customer-First Mindset
- Think Big and Execute
- Lead by Example
- Drive Continuous Improvement
- Learn and Seek Out Development
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About the Team
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business or related field
- 10+ years relevant experience in corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or consulting
- Demonstrated experience leading M&A transactions or major workstreams end-to-end
- Strong financial modeling and valuation expertise (DCF, comparables, scenario modeling)
- MBA or advanced degree
- Experience in industrial manufacturing, critical infrastructure, or related sectors
- Exposure to global / cross-border transactions
Vertiv Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vertiv and has not been reviewed or approved by Vertiv.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
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What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
