Senior Manager, M&A - Westlake Ventures

Founded in 1986, Westlake Corporation (NYSE: WLK) is a Fortune 500 global diversified industrial company that manufactures and supplies essential products that enhance the daily lives of people around the globe. Our products are used in housing and infrastructure, packaging and healthcare, and automotive and consumer goods.

Westlake Innovations, Inc., one of our subsidiaries, facilitates the company’s investments in new technologies and pursues innovative solutions in water, healthcare, recycling, and new materials.

We have an exciting opportunity as we are looking for a Senior Manager
- Westlake Ventures to join our Strategy & Corporate Development team.

The Senior Manager, Westlake Ventures, serves as a key architect and driver of corporate and new venture development, focusing on high-potential business areas beyond Westlake’s current portfolio and traditional adjacencies. This strategic leadership role shapes the direction of Westlake’s New Venture Strategy and Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activities, overseeing the entire lifecycle of complex projects—including technical, commercial, financial, and operational dimensions.

The Senior Manager delivers robust project reviews, financial modeling and valuation, and comprehensive due diligence, while also conducting special studies to support the Strategy and Corporate Development team.

This position leads Westlake’s business development efforts in fast-growth, innovation-driven sectors such as water, healthcare, electrification, and other emerging megatrends.

May include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Strategic Opportunity and Innovation Scouting: Proactively scan markets to identify, evaluate, and pursue high-impact opportunities for investment, M&A, or commercial partnerships. Develop compelling business theses and negotiate deals to successful closure.
• M&A and Direction Investment/Venture Investment Analysis and Execution: Lead and support due diligence, site visits, and estimation of one-time and growth project costs. Build robust financial models for valuation and growth projections.
• Project Leadership: Advance projects through key milestones, ensuring they are fully vetted and supported by rigorous background analysis to enable confident decision-making.
• Venture Pipeline and Portfolio Management: Set the strategic direction for new ventures, scope and ideate pipeline projects, and guide the development of new business strategies aligned with Westlake’s corporate goals. Manage multiple initiatives from concept to implementation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and nurture relationships with startups, venture firms, and external partners to strengthen Westlake’s innovative ecosystem.
• Additional Responsibilities: Provide analytical support for surveys, benchmarking, banking, legal actions, and other corporate needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in technical degree (engineering, science), business, or accounting. MBA preferred.
• Typically requires 8-10 years of work experience in Corporate Development, Venture Capital, Private Equity, or Investment Banking, with transaction and negotiations experience.
• Strongly prefer candidate has prior working experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or technology company and/or the investment sector. Business and technical application knowledge required.
• Strong M&A, project management, or market and product development experience, fluency with structuring, investment analysis, and finance terms.
• Candidate should have a working knowledge of medium to large company dynamics and be able to drive results well with others that do not directly report to them.
• Skill set should include ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams in support of business development, and related due diligence activities as required by projects being developed.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Occasional business travel may be required.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, as normally based in the office. Some of the work may be required in the operating units which can require usage of required PPE including safety glasses, hearing protection, etc. May also result in exposure to outside elements and may require usage of stairs and elevators. Travel including air travel or auto travel may occasionally be required.