Strategic M&A Origination Lead — Front-End Deals

Sandvik AB; United States; Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandvik AB is seeking an Origination Management Professional to lead the front end of the acquisition lifecycle, translating strategic priorities into investable themes and robust business cases. You will develop market maps, target universes and proactive deal flow with senior stakeholders across Europe.

You will collaborate with business owners and experts to validate opportunities and refine origination methods, leveraging analytics and external intelligence to shape actionable

Qualifications

• Experience translating strategic priorities into investable themes and company-specific value creation hypotheses.
• Advanced capability in market analysis, target screening, strategic business cases and executive decision support.
• Strong commercial understanding of business models, competitive advantage and growth drivers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain evidence-based acquisition themes with strategic rationale, scope, target profiles and preliminary value creation logic.
• Create structured market maps and target universes; identify and prioritize companies based on strategic fit, market position and economic attractiveness.
• Generate proactive deal flow through company and owner outreach, industry networks, advisors and internal stakeholders.
• Assess targets, identify risks and dependencies, and recommend progression, hold or rejection of opportunities.
• Lead development and validation of strategic business cases with business owners and relevant experts.
• Improve origination methods, criteria, decision gates and pipeline governance using analytics, AI and learnings from prior opportunities.

Skills

Strategy

Corporate development

M&A origination

Business development

Investment analysis

Management consulting

Job description

Sandvik AB is seeking an Origination Management Professional to lead the front end of the acquisition lifecycle, translating strategic priorities into investable themes and robust business cases. You will develop market maps, target universes and proactive deal flow with senior stakeholders across Europe.

You will collaborate with business owners and experts to validate opportunities and refine origination methods, leveraging analytics and external intelligence to shape actionable