Corporate Development Associate
Uptake's business is global, disruptive, differentiated and approaches the market in a new way. We help customers identify hidden value and create growth through business and technology innovation, while also enabling cost efficiencies that generate industry-leading business performance. Our team drives this success by connecting customers and partners to the value of the Internet of Things, business-centric architectures, and key technology transitions.
The Uptake Corporate Development team focuses on sourcing, evaluating, negotiating and executing M&A and strategic partnership opportunities. This position offers a great opportunity to drive deals by evaluating business and M&A opportunities, structuring, and full cycle execution. This role will make an immediate and substantial impact to Uptake.
This person should be able to support multiple projects simultaneously, be highly self-motivated, and enjoy solving really hard problems. This is a highly visible role and critical to our success, with the opportunity to grow rapidly and gain senior executive exposure across a variety of industries.
- Analyze the company’s strategic objectives and identify, recommend and pursue technologies that can meet those investment objectives
- Perform research on technologies, identify industry trends, outline competitive landscape(s), and research, identify, and recommend companies for strategic partnerships and acquisitions
- Support acquisitions – including due diligence, deal negotiations and integration
- Create a variety of financial models, including ROI and target company Profit & Loss
- Support the executive team on all aspects of deal execution and integration activities (this includes research, analysis, and deal execution activities)
- Support coordination of cross-functional engineering, design and product teams in the evaluation of technical employees, technology solutions and other product diligence
- Identify areas for integration of technology infrastructure and other IT systems post-acquisition / partnership
- Assess the costs, revenue and other benefits for both near- and long-term roadmaps that leverage the acquired company’s solutions
- Take on special projects on an as-needed basis
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from a top university and 2-4 years relevant work experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, technology-focused corporate development/strategy, due diligence focused management consulting, or technology-focused investment bank
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical ability, along with excellent business judgment
- Experience doing industry research, competitive landscaping/comparisons, value chain analyses, extensive financial modeling, and presentations
- Experience identifying and exposure to strategic deal negotiation
- Experience interacting with senior audiences and executives
- Strong project management skills, including a proven ability to think through all aspects of the process, manage long-term projects, and multi-task
- Familiarity with concepts and technologies behind Big Data analytics, predictive analytics, and predictive maintenance
- Driven, self-starter with a passion for excellence and ability to work under minimal supervision
- Superb interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to build relationships successfully across teams