Director, Corporate Development, Integration & Business Leadership

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Director, Corporate Development, Integration & Business Leadership

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We are committed to finding smart solutions that enable an intelligent and seamless world. Our success as a world-class leader in technology has evolved from humble beginnings. In 1896, the enterprising father and son team of A.J. and George

A. Briggs partnered with S.A. Buffington, a Chicago lawyer, to establish Chicago Telephone Supply Company (later to become CTS).

Today, CTS is a leading designer and manufacturer of sensors, actuators, and electronic components for suppliers and original equipment manufacturers. We have over 20 locations in 12 countries and more than 3,500 employees. Our innovative sensing, connectivity, and motion solutions offer a diverse range of products across diversified end markets including transportation, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial. We are at the forefront of supporting innovating life-changing technology, focusing on quality to keep people safe, healthy, and happy.

The Director, Corporate Development, Integration & Business Leadership is a senior enterprise leader responsible for advancing the company's inorganic growth strategy from acquisition strategy and transaction execution through integration, value creation, and ongoing business leadership. This role serves as a critical bridge between corporate development and operations, ensuring that acquisitions not only close successfully but also achieve their strategic, financial, and operational objectives.

Working closely with executive leadership, business units, functional leaders, external advisers, and target-company management teams, this individual leads the full acquisition lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, transaction execution, diligence, integration planning, value-capture realization, and post-close business performance. The role establishes the governance, accountability, and operating discipline required to deliver the acquisition business case and create long-term shareholder value.

A unique aspect of this position is the expectation that the individual may assume direct leadership responsibility for acquired businesses following close. Depending on the needs of the organization and the acquisition, the Director may serve as the interim or ongoing business leader, with responsibility for strategy execution, financial performance, operational results, organizational effectiveness, customer relationships, and talent leadership. As such, the role requires not only strong corporate development and integration capabilities, but also the credibility, judgment, and leadership presence of a general manager.

• Partner with executive and business-unit leadership to shape inorganic growth priorities, acquisition themes, capability gaps, and market-entry strategies aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Build and actively manage a prioritized pipeline of acquisition, divestiture, joint venture, minority investment, and strategic partnership opportunities.
• Develop market maps, sector theses, target screens, and investment hypotheses using industry, customer, competitor, technology, and financial insights.
• Cultivate relationships with business owners, executives, private equity sponsors, investment banks, advisers, and other market participants to generate proprietary and intermediated opportunities.
• Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for executive management and the Board, including strategic rationale, valuation, key risks, alternatives, and recommended next steps.

• Lead end-to-end transaction execution, including initial assessment, valuation, deal structuring, due diligence, negotiation support, approvals, signing, closing, and transition to integration.
• Own advanced financial analyses, including three-statement models, discounted cash flow, precedent transactions, comparable companies, accretion/dilution, returns analysis, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and synergy valuation.
• Lead multidisciplinary diligence across commercial, financial, operational, tax, legal, human capital, technology, cybersecurity, environmental, and compliance work streams; synthesize findings into clear investment conclusions.
• Develop transaction structures and negotiation positions in partnership with leadership and external advisers, including purchase price mechanics, working-capital adjustments, earnouts, escrows, representations, and other key terms.
• Coordinate investment banks, accounting firms, consultants, legal counsel, lenders, and other advisers to maintain pace, quality, confidentiality, and accountability throughout the process.
• Identify critical risks, challenge assumptions, and provide independent judgment on whether and how the company should proceed.

• Lead integration planning beginning during diligence, converting the investment thesis and synergy case into a practical…