M&A Strategy & Integration Director

CBRE; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE seeks an M&A Director to lead diligence and integration of high-value transactions end to end, connecting findings to deal thesis and designing the integration approach. You will collaborate with Corporate Development, Finance, Legal, HR, and business sponsors across the deal lifecycle.

This role is part of the Mergers & Acquisitions function and offers the flexibility to work from any CBRE office within the United States, including Dallas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-12 years of experience in M&A, strategy, business operations, transaction advisory, management consulting, or a related field.
• Proven ability to synthesize cross-functional findings and frame risk and tradeoffs for senior stakeholders — not simply produce or coordinate functional outputs.
• Demonstrated success building the case for change and driving complex, multi-stakeholder programs to results.
• Strong executive presence and credibility with deal sponsors, Corporate Development, and senior leadership.
• Outstanding relationship-building, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear choices.

Responsibilities

• Lead confirmatory due diligence, integration and separation planning, execution, and performance tracking on complex transactions end to end.
• Understand and operationalize the business strategy, ensuring diligence and integration serve the commercial intent of each deal.
• Synthesize confirmatory due diligence findings across functional workstreams into leadership-ready assessments of what is material, what requires a decision, and what the tradeoffs are.
• Contextualize and frame risks in terms of their impact on the deal thesis, escalating issues and opportunities as appropriate.
• Design the integration or separation approach, matched to each transaction's strategic intent, and lead execution of plans that preserve and create value.
• Translate commitments made to targets into clear and consistent plans from LOI through close.
• Mobilize and lead virtual cross-functional teams, managing to schedule and deliverables and driving urgency on key milestones.
• Build effective partnerships across teams, clarifying roles and responsibilities and resolving cross-functional issues and prioritization.
• Maintain visibility into whether integrations are delivering the value that was underwritten, facilitating reviews and flagging when off track.
• Share best practices from prior transactions across the enterprise and document deal learnings to drive continuous practice improvement.
• Lead by example and model behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values.

Skills

Executive presence

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

M&A experience

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office 365

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Job description

CBRE seeks an M&A Director to lead diligence and integration of high-value transactions end to end, connecting findings to deal thesis and designing the integration approach. You will collaborate with Corporate Development, Finance, Legal, HR, and business sponsors across the deal lifecycle.

This role is part of the Mergers & Acquisitions function and offers the flexibility to work from any CBRE office within the United States, including Dallas.