Director of Corporate Development

As Director of Corporate Development, you will work directly with the CEO and take responsibility for building Andercore's M&A engine from the ground up. You will help define the roll-up strategy, identify and approach acquisition targets, develop investment cases and execute transactions end-to-end, while working closely with technology and operating teams to acquire traditional industrial businesses and use technology and AI to make them dramatically better.

What you'll do

• Take Andercore's acquisition and consolidation strategy across Europe to the next level; identify attractive verticals, geographies and acquisition archetypes; build market maps and develop the financial and strategic logic behind the roll-up thesis
• Build and continuously develop a proprietary pipeline of acquisition opportunities; identify and directly approach founders and owners of attractive businesses; build trusted relationships with entrepreneurs
• Own transactions from first conversation through closing: initial assessment, financial analysis, investment cases, deal structuring, LOIs, negotiation, due diligence, financing, Board materials, signing and closing
• Work with technology and operating teams to identify opportunities to apply AI, automation and the central platform across sales, pricing, procurement, customer service, working capital and other areas
• Develop Day-1 and 100-day plans before closing; translate investment theses into measurable operational initiatives; track acquisition performance against the original investment case
• Build the infrastructure required to turn acquisitions into a repeatable capability: M&A playbook, target database, valuation frameworks, investment committee processes, due diligence standards, integration playbooks and portfolio reporting

What you'll need

• 5–10 years of relevant experience, likely from leading Private Equity funds, top-tier Investment Banking/M&A, Corporate Development at a highly acquisitive company, or a combination thereof
• Exceptional financial and analytical capabilities; strong commercial judgment; deep understanding of M&A
• Excellent negotiation skills; entrepreneurial instinct; high ownership and execution intensity
• Ability to build relationships with entrepreneurs and business owners; intellectual curiosity around AI and technology
• German and English fluency highly preferred
• Experience in industrial distribution, business services, industrial technology or fragmented-market consolidation particularly valuable

What they offer

• Opportunity to build Andercore's M&A engine and Corporate Development organization from the ground up
• Work directly with founders, Board and investors with significant responsibility from day one
• Play a central role in building a new category of European industrial company