M&A Technology Executive Director

We are looking for an experienced Technology M&A professional to join a high-growth Transactions and Deals practice at senior leadership level.

The team advises corporate and private equity clients across the full M&A lifecycle, helping organisations understand, plan and execute the technology implications of complex transactions.

The work spans technology strategy, digital, applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, cyber security, operating models, technology costs and post-deal implementation.

Engagements include buy-side and sell-side technology due diligence, integrations, separations and carve-outs, IPOs, joint ventures, synergy programmes and the stand-up of new businesses.

This is a senior role combining client delivery, business development, team leadership and continued development of the Technology M&A proposition.

• Lead major Technology M&A engagements, acting as a senior adviser to corporate and private equity clients.
• Lead the planning and delivery of technology due diligence, integrations, separations and wider transaction programmes.
• Build and manage relationships with C-suite executives, investors, deal teams and other senior stakeholders.
• Identify new opportunities and convert relationships into new engagements and revenue.
• Lead the development and delivery of client proposals and pitches.
• Provide high-quality, commercially focused insights and recommendations on complex technology and transaction issues.
• Oversee engagement teams, ensuring projects are delivered to a high standard, on time and commercially.
• Work with wider transaction, strategy and technology specialists across different sectors and geographies.
• Develop and enhance Technology M&A propositions, methodologies and services.
• Support the continued growth and strategic direction of the Technology M&A practice.
• Coach, mentor and develop junior and senior members of the team.
• Maintain strong standards around engagement quality, risk management and profitability.

We are looking for someone with significant and recent Technology M&A experience gained within consulting, professional services, private equity or a relevant senior industry environment.

You should have a strong understanding of the transaction lifecycle and the role technology plays from initial due diligence through to deal execution and post-deal integration or separation.

• Buy-side and sell-side technology due diligence.
• Vendor assistance and sell-side preparation.
• Technology integrations, separations and carve-outs.
• Technology operating model and organisation design.
• Transitional Service Agreement (TSA) design, negotiation and implementation.
• Technology cost analysis, synergy identification and value creation.
• Programme management and execution of complex technology transformation programmes.
• Leadership of multiple concurrent M&A engagements and project teams.

You are likely to bring experience across several of the following areas:

• IT infrastructure, networks and data centres
• Cloud
• Cyber security
• Digital and applications
• ERP
• Data
• Technology strategy
• IT operating models
• Organisation and supplier strategy
• Technology cost optimisation and synergy identification

You will be a credible and commercially minded senior adviser who is comfortable operating with C-suite executives, investors and senior deal professionals.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the presence and credibility to influence senior decision-makers.
• A demonstrable track record of delivering complex Technology M&A engagements.
• Strong commercial and business development capability, including originating opportunities and developing client relationships.
• The ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous and highly pressured transaction environments.
• Strong presentation and proposal-development skills.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams.
• A strong understanding of current technology, M&A and private equity market trends.
• The flexibility to travel when required.

This is an opportunity to take a senior role within a growing Technology M&A business, combining complex transaction work with significant responsibility for clients, people, proposition development and future growth.