About the Role:
As a CBRE M&A Director, you will lead the diligence and integration of complex, high-value transactions end to end. Within the M&A Diligence & Integration function, you will connect due diligence findings to the deal thesis, design the integration approach, and give senior leadership the clarity they need to make sound decisions and realize the value each deal was intended to create. You will work alongside Corporate Development, Finance, Legal, HR, business sponsors, and other stakeholders across the deal lifecycle.
This job is part of the Mergers & Acquisitions function, responsible for identifying, evaluating, and executing M&A transactions to drive corporate growth.
This role offers the flexibility to work from any CBRE office within the United States.
What You'll Do:
• Lead confirmatory due diligence, integration and separation planning, execution, and performance tracking on complex transactions end to end
• Understand and operationalize the business strategy, ensuring diligence and integration serve the commercial intent of each deal
• Synthesize confirmatory due diligence findings across functional workstreams into leadership-ready assessments of what is material, what requires a decision, and what the tradeoffs are
• Contextualize and frame risks in terms of their impact on the deal thesis, escalating issues and opportunities as appropriate
• Design the integration or separation approach, matched to each transaction's strategic intent, and lead execution of plans that preserve and create value
• Translate commitments made to targets into clear and consistent plans from LOI through close
• Mobilize and lead virtual cross-functional teams, managing to schedule and deliverables and driving urgency on key milestones
• Build effective partnerships across teams, clarifying roles and responsibilities and resolving cross-functional issues and prioritization
• Maintain visibility into whether integrations are delivering the value that was underwritten, facilitating reviews and flagging when off track
• Share best practices from prior transactions across the enterprise and document deal learnings to drive continuous practice improvement
• Lead by example and model behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values
Strategic Working Relationships
• Business leaders and deal sponsors
• Corporate Development team
• Functional leaders across Finance, People, Legal, Tax, IT, and other areas
