Executive Director, M&A & Corporate Growth Strategy

Trustmark Services Company; Lake Forest (IL); On-site; USD 137,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/dental/vision

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness program

Job summary

Trustmark is seeking an Executive Director, Corporate Development to lead M&A deal execution and upstream strategic planning. You will guide deal evaluation, negotiations, and portfolio strategy while collaborating with executives and cross-functional teams.

The role demands analytical rigor and strong relationship building in a fast-paced environment. The role reports to the Corporate Development leadership and involves working across business units to identify growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of relevant professional work experience (strategy consulting, M&A, and/or strategy development within an organization).
• Demonstrated success analyzing internal/external partners.
• Relentless curiosity and possess a passion to learn new concepts and create innovative analyses to identify opportunities.
• Demonstrated strengths in and passion for extracting insights from data and converting ideas to action.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing industry, tolerate ambiguity, and demonstrated disruptive thinking.
• Demonstrated problem-solving leadership with limited oversight.
• High degree of motivation to self-start, and go above and beyond the task at hand.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Highly collaborative team player able to lead and work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Preferred Experience: crafting strategies based on how consumers are engaging in the insurance journey, to reveal how products/brands can better connect with their consumers.
• Strong technology and data analytics acumen.
• Strong executive presence

Responsibilities

• Own and drive strategic analysis on existing and new products and businesses, including quant research and analysis, secondary/primary competitive research, synthesis, and making strategic recommendations.
• Build effective narratives that translate to a variety of audiences (e.g., executives, senior leaders, peers, third-party partners) to support alignment of key growth priorities, strategic recommendations, and M&A deal hypothesis.
• Develop business cases, including business model evaluation, build, borrow, buy analyses, market sizing, and investment requirements.
• Support, and/or own and drive aspects of M&A process/activities in support of growth strategy.
• Evaluate pipeline of innovations in employee benefits and start-ups for acquisition or partnership; seek and evaluate possible business, technology, and/or delivery partner relationships to support growth objectives.

Skills

Strategy analysis

M&A experience

Data analytics

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Trustmark is seeking an Executive Director, Corporate Development to lead M&A deal execution and upstream strategic planning. You will guide deal evaluation, negotiations, and portfolio strategy while collaborating with executives and cross-functional teams.

The role demands analytical rigor and strong relationship building in a fast-paced environment. The role reports to the Corporate Development leadership and involves working across business units to identify growth opportunities.