Director M&A Strategy & Integration

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Lockheed Martin
Bethesda, MD, United States
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Reporting to the Vice President, Corporate Development (VPCD), the Director M&A Strategy & Integration is responsible for driving the organization’s efforts around inorganic growth strategies, target pipeline development and associated strategic evaluation in collaboration with the Business Area and other Corporate Strategy & Development (CSD) teams. This role also leads all aspects of the post-merger integration planning as well as separation activities related to divestitures and special projects aligned with the operational and strategic capabilities of the CD function.

The Director, M&A Strategy & Integration will be responsible for, but not limited to:

  • Lead the M&A Strategy & Integration team and function and owns the corporate integration playbook.
  • Lead any strategic and operationally focused special projects at the direction VPCD or ELT
  • Create and drive a robust transaction pipeline of actionable targets, including sourcing from and providing targets to the Business Areas
  • Work with the Business Areas, E&T and Strategy teams to advance inorganic strategic investment and portfolio shaping concepts.
  • Mature and further enhance the portfolio analysis/model and lead the bi-annual portfolio assessment
  • Oversee special projects for Corp Dev leadership and support M&A/investment decision-making
  • Manage the interactions related to incoming transaction activity (externally and internally)
  • Support the development of compelling business cases and strategic rationale in collaboration with Business Area and M&A staff
  • Lead the development and execution of detailed integration and separation plans for all mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
  • Lead all post-closing transition services support activities
  • Develop high impact strategic presentations in connection with ELT/Board level discussions
  • Develop and maintain relationships with external bankers and consultants to stay current in the M&A environment and leverage external expertise as warranted in processes
  • Correlate M&A industry activity to drive CorpDev newsletter, executive updates, and other ad hoc ELT-level presentations
  • Responsible for managing day-to-day CD operations supporting the VPCD (budgets, approvals)
  • Strong preference for MD, may consider other LM locations.
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