Saint Paul, MN30+ days ago
p>What You Will Do: • Partner with internal stakeholders to conduct comprehensive portfolio reviews, identify growth opportunities and underperforming assets, and recommend strategic adjacencies to guide capital deployment and resource prioritization • Lead discussion/consideration of global inorganic growth opportunities, including strategic expansion platform opportunities, with division leadership • Prepare market taxonomy and/or market space gap analysis and identify specific potential targets for acquisition, partnership or otherwise in core and adjacent spaces • Profile, contact and engage prospective targets • Engage in focused outreach with investment banks, target company CEO's/ management to build relationships • Prepare discussion, communication and internal approval materials as needed in support of potential acquisition or investment opportunities • Assemble and lead commercial due diligence team to develop business cases, translate diligence findings into, and identify integration planning implications • Partner with M&A, Minority Investments and Technology Partnership & Development teams to execute transactions. The Corporate Development team is composed of senior members who interface internally with the business units, associated executives, and the functional groups across the company, and externally, with target management, owners, industry consultants and bankers, to realize the company's inorganic growth objectives.