Director, Corporate Development

Key responsibilities include:

Corporate Development Strategy

• Partner with executive leadership to identify, evaluate, and prioritize strategic growth opportunities aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Develop and maintain a corporate development pipeline, including acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
• Monitor industry trends, competitive dynamics, emerging technologies, and market developments to identify potential opportunities and risks.
• Provide strategic recommendations regarding portfolio optimization, capital deployment, and business growth initiatives.

• Cultivate and manage relationships with investment banks, advisors, and other external market participants.
• Develop proprietary and advisor-led deal flow to support enterprise growth objectives.
• Represent Allstate in discussions with external partners, acquisition targets, and stakeholders.

• Lead rigorous financial modeling, business valuation, and scenario analysis to assess strategic alternatives and investment opportunities. Supplement with understanding of precedent market deals.
• Evaluate transaction economics, synergy opportunities, risks, and return expectations.
• Communicate valuation rationale, analytics, alternative valuations and recommendations to executive audience

• Lead end-to-end execution of mergers, acquisitions, and joint venture transactions.
• Direct cross-functional deal teams and coordinate diligence and deal activities across Finance, Accounting, Legal, Tax, Treasury, HR, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and business unit experts.
• Structure and negotiate transaction terms to optimize strategic and financial outcomes.
• Manage transaction timelines, governance requirements, and executive decision-making processes.
• Synthesize diligence findings into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

• Partner with business leaders to develop integration strategies, operating models, and value creation plans.
• Establish frameworks to monitor synergy realization and transaction performance.
• Conduct post-acquisition and post-divestiture reviews to assess outcomes and capture lessons learned.

• Build and develop a high-performing corporate development function.
• Influence senior leaders and business partners through strategic insight, data-driven recommendations, and trusted advisory relationships.
• Foster collaboration across enterprise stakeholders to drive alignment and successful execution of strategic initiatives.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, strategy consulting, or related disciplines.
• Significant experience leading complex transactions from origination through execution and integration.
• Demonstrated experience developing executive-level recommendations and influencing senior decision makers.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in highly complex and ambiguous environments.

• Experience with in financial services, insurance, fintech, or adjacent regulated industries.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership teams.
• Prior leadership responsibility for building and developing teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• MBA, CFA, CPA, or other relevant advanced degree/certification preferred.

• Strategic Thinking & Enterprise Perspective
• M&A and Transaction Expertise
• Financial Modeling & Valuation
• Negotiation & Deal Structuring
• Market & Competitive Intelligence
• Relationship Management
• Executive Influence & Communication
• Cross-Functional Leadership

Compensation offered for this role is  -  annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

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