Strategic Project / M&A Leader

Your challenge

• Manage multiple strategic projects of medium-to-large size simultaneously, and their respective project teams of varying sizes. Typically, those projects could be:
  • Lead M&A initiatives and projects
  • Lead strategic growth projects (from elaborating the business case together with business owners up to implementing it into the operations)
  • Update existing Strategy plans into strategic roadmaps for key market segments, translate them into actionable go-to-market plans, validate them within the organization (Commercial, Operations, etc …) and ensure their implementation
• Establish and maintain project plans and project budgets, report progress as required, generate risk assessments, escalate issues, and facilitate project review presentations
• Develop presentation deliverables related to projects
• Work with a cross-functional team on assigning tasks and establishing project deliverables
• Contribute to thoughtful and creative discussions with project sponsor(s), stakeholders, department and division management on strategic goals, plans and challenges
• Collect and consolidate management data/reports in order to track performance against goals and corporate strategy
• Exercise independent discretion and judgment to solve complex problems regarding project, department or division-related work

The ideal candidate profileto take on this challenge

Education

University degree, ideally in Economics, Engineering or Business Management; MBA a strong plus .

Experience

• 7 to 10 years of experience gained in an industrial environment or in a consultancy firm, dealing with industrial customers
• Proven experience in leading projects in areas of strategy, business development, corporate finance and/or corporate development (M&A)
• Multinational exposure

Your professional skills

Leadership capabilities

• Strong business sense, with a wide interest in different business functions
• Ability to motivate teams to produce quality information within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – proven ability to provide impactful executive presentations
• Good internal networker, able to build contacts with managers of different levels across the group and to influence in a matrix organization
• Willingness to continuously challenge him/herself and the rest of the team

Needed skills

• Excellent level of English
• Strong analytical capabilities with financial insights – excellent at extracting the essence out of the data and draw conclusions and recommendations
• At ease with the unknown – excited to get out of comfort zone and explore new paths.
• Collaborative – team player
• Accountable – will do whatever it takes to deliver on commitments, willing to go the extra mile
• Excellent command of the Microsoft suite

Why Carmeuse?

We truly believe that where you work matters and, as a family business, we know what makes our employees happy!

• Flexible working hours
• Home working policy
• Competitive salary package and benefits
• A lot of growing possibilities
• A strong HR and training policy to develop your skills
• Work-life balance