Head of International Strategy, M&A and Spin-offs

Renaissance Fusion; Grenoble; Sur place; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading fusion energy company in Grenoble is seeking a Head of International Strategy to shape strategic initiatives, manage M&A activities, and lead cross-functional collaboration. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in strategy or corporate development, with a solid track record in market evaluation and M&A execution. The role offers the chance to influence the company's trajectory in a fast-evolving industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategy or corporate development.
• A strong track record in evaluating markets.
• Experience in executing M&A or spin-off transactions.

Responsabilités

• Collaborate with various teams to align internal strategy.
• Lead international competitive and market analysis.
• Design scalable pathways to market for strategic opportunities.

Connaissances

Strategic positioning and go-to-market planning

Market and competitive analysis

M&A and partnership due diligence

Cross-functional alignment

Formation

Master’s degree in engineering, physics, economics, or business

Description du poste

Overview

To realize our mission, we need bold strategic thinking and world-class execution. Fusion is a globally competitive race—with major implications for energy, industry, and society. As our Head of International Strategy, M&A and Spin-offs, you will report directly to the CEO and help shape the company trajectory across products, markets, and organizational models. Fusion is a young industry, still evolving and morphing… like a plasma! Reading it and actively shaping it will be crucial for success. We will have to act and react to other players’ moves. This might include acquiring other companies, or merging, and creating subsidiaries and spin-offs. This role is ideal for someone who combines analytical rigor with entrepreneurial creativity and thrives in fast-evolving, high-uncertainty environments.

Responsibilities

• Internal Alignment
  • Collaborate with product management, technology, operations, and investor relations teams to align internal strategy with external positioning.
  • Build business cases and decision frameworks for major initiatives—balancing ambition with realism, and vision with execution.
  • Support board-level communications and fundraising strategy from a market and structure perspective.
  • Maintain a regular, proactive dialogue between Renaissance Fusion and its subsidiaries and spin-offs to ensure mutual alignment and the proper understanding and handling of regional and technical nuances.
• Identifying strategic opportunities and risks
  • Lead international competitive and market analysis across the fusion ecosystem and adjacent industries (e.g., superconductors, magnets, liquid metals, advanced manufacturing, power systems, microwave technologies, particle accelerator technologies).
  • Define and continuously refine our strategic positioning for each product line—fusion and non-fusion—based on technological edge, market needs, and timing.
  • Identify and evaluate new strategic opportunities and risks: markets, applications, geographies, partnerships, and potential acquisitions.
• Seizing strategic opportunities and mitigating risks
  • Design and implement scalable, capital-efficient pathways to market. This could include subsidiaries, spin-offs, joint ventures, licensing deals, or vertically integrated models.
  • Drive strategic due diligence, negotiations, and execution for M&A, partnership, and corporate development opportunities.
• Team management
  • Be the ambassador of Renaissance Fusion's vision within your team, and promote its culture, values (speed, simplicity, fantastic realism, constructive interference and unified force) and policies.
  • Encourage collaboration at all levels of the organization.
  • Ensure that your team is motivated to achieve its objectives: set targets and follow them up with encouragement, support, feedback and responsibility.
  • Ensure that employees are in the best position to achieve their objectives: listen to them, look after their well-being, make sure they have the appropriate tools and skills; fill the gap if necessary (recruitment, training, reorganization…).
  • Take an active role in talent development: identify potential, determine areas and opportunities for development, encourage reflection on professional projects, propose training courses.

Requirements

Feel free to apply even if you only meet 70% of the requirements. Superheroes don't exist, but people with passion and talent do!

Education and professional experience

• Master’s degree in engineering, physics, economics, or business; MBA is a plus.
• 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, management consulting, private equity, or similar roles—ideally with exposure to deep tech, energy, or industrial technologies.
• A strong track record in evaluating markets and shaping strategies.
• Experience in executing M&A or spin-off transactions: at least one merger or acquisition and/or one spin-off.

Languages

• Fluent in English
• Good level of French and/or Italian is a plus

Technical skills

• Market and competitive analysis in deep tech sectors (fusion, superconductors, advanced manufacturing, etc.)
• Strategic positioning and go-to-market planning across multiple product lines
• Business case development and financial modeling for new initiatives
• Corporate strategy and decision-making frameworks
• M&A and partnership due diligence and execution
• Familiarity with IP landscapes and technology benchmarking
• Structuring and scaling subsidiaries, spin-offs, and joint ventures
• Understanding of investment structures, capital allocation, and fundraising strategy
• Ability to translate complex technical topics into business impact
• Cross-functional alignment with R&D, product, operations, and investor relations

What We Offer

Visit our career page to learn more about our work conditions and benefits:

https://renfusion.eu/jobs

At Renaissance Fusion, we value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants equally for employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of origin; gender; morals, sexual orientation; sexual identity; age; marital status; pregnancy; genetic characteristics; actual or assumed membership or non-membership of an ethnic group, nation or race; political opinions; trade union or mutualist activities; religious beliefs; physical appearance; family name; place of residence; state of health; disability.