Broadridge is hiring! We're seeking Vice President, Corporate Development. You will be a senior leader on Broadridge’s corporate development team, helping to shape and execute Broadridge’s inorganic growth strategy through acquisitions, partnerships, minority investments, partnerships, and other strategic transactions. This highly visible executive role requires a proven leader with deep transaction experience, exceptional strategic and financial acumen, strong business judgement, and the ability to influence and operate effectively at senior levels of the organization.
The VP will play a central role in identifying, evaluating, negotiating, and executing high-impact transactions that align with Broadridge’s long-term growth priorities. In addition to leading transaction execution, this executive will partner closely with business leaders to identify and source acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities; develop investment theses, assess market opportunities, drive portfolio-shaping initiatives, and support integration planning and value realization.
This role requires a seasoned deal-making executive with corporate development, investment banking, and/or private equity experience, who has demonstrated excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, the ability to lead multiple complex workstreams simultaneously and to collaborate across functional teams in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.
Responsibilities:
Corporate Development Strategy and Opportunity Origination:
- Partner with business leaders to identify strategic gaps, market opportunities, and inorganic growth priorities
- Build and maintain a robust pipeline of acquisition, investment, and partnership opportunities across priority sectors, capabilities, and geographies
- Cultivate relationships with investment bankers, private equity and venture capitalists, founders, and broader market participants to enhance sourcing and market intelligence
Transaction Leadership and Execution:
- Lead end-to-end execution of acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments and partnerships
- Oversee all phases of the transaction process, including target screening, strategic assessment, valuation, structuring, negotiation, due diligence, internal approvals, and closing
- Serve as a senior point of contact in discussions with target company executives, bankers, legal counsel, accounting advisors, and other external stakeholders
- Drive transaction processes with urgency, discipline, and sound judgment while balancing strategic, operational, legal, and financial considerations, all in a collaborative environment
Strategic and Financial Analysis:
- In close collaboration with the sponsoring business unit, lead the development and review of sophisticated financial models and valuation analyses to support investment decisions
- Oversee analyses including operating forecasts, discounted cash flow models, comparable company and precedent transaction analyses, synergy assessments, and accretion/dilution analysis
- Evaluate strategic fit, competitive positioning, market attractiveness, revenue and cost synergy opportunities, and operational implications of transaction opportunities
Business Case Development and Executive Communication:
- Lead the creation of clear, data-driven business cases that synthesize financial, strategic, operational, market, and integration considerations into clear recommendations for executive audiences
- Prepare and deliver high-impact recommendation presentations for C-level and Board discussions
Due Diligence Leadership:
- Lead cross-functional due diligence efforts across finance, legal, tax, accounting, technology, product, cybersecurity, HR, commercial, operations, and compliance
- Establish diligence priorities, identify key risks and value drivers, and ensure effective issue resolution throughout the process
- Coordinate internal stakeholders and external advisors to escalate issues, develop resolutions and maintain a disciplined, efficient and collaborative diligence process
Deal Structuring, Negotiation, and Governance:
- Help structure transactions to optimize strategic and financial outcomes while managing risk
- Support or lead key commercial negotiations in collaboration with legal and business executives
- Ensure transactions are executed in accordance with internal governance, financial criteria, and strategic priorities
Integration Planning and Value Realization:
- Partner with business and functional leaders to develop integration strategies and value creation plans during the pre-close phase
- Support post-close reviews and monitor transaction performance against investment thesis, synergy targets, and strategic objectives
- Identify lessons learned and continuously improve Broadridge’s M&A and integration processes
Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Influence:
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and development to members of the corporate development team
- Foster a culture of analytical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and execution
- Build strong partnerships across Broadridge’s corporate functions and business units
- Influence without authority across a matrixed organization; align stakeholders toward transaction objectives
Key Relationships:
This role interfaces extensively with:
- Executive leadership team and C-suite
- Business unit presidents and senior operating leaders
- Finance, accounting, tax, treasury, legal, HR, technology, cybersecurity, and operations teams
- Boards, committees, and other governance bodies, as applicable
- Target company management teams and shareholders
- Investment bankers, PE’s and venture capitalists, consultants, attorneys, and other external advisors
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required. MBA, other advanced degree, or CFA is beneficial
- Deep experience in corporate development, investment banking, and/or private equity, with substantial focus on acquisitions and meaningful exposure to minority investments and partnerships
- Sector experience in financial technology, enterprise software, information services, financial services, or adjacent industries preferred
- Demonstrated success leading complex transactions from origination through closing, including sourcing, valuation, diligence, structuring, negotiation, and integration planning and governance
- Experience operating in a complex, matrixed organization and leading cross-functional teams
- Experience preparing materials for executive committees and Board audiences
Skills and Capabilities:
- Strong strategic thinking and commercial judgment
- Ability to distill complex issues into clear written and verbal recommendations
- Exceptional financial modeling, valuation, and analytical skills
- Excellent negotiation and transaction execution capabilities
- Executive-level verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
- Strong project management skills across multiple simultaneous high-priority initiatives
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes in ambiguous environments
Leadership Attributes:
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a principal’s mindset towards Broadridge’s success:
- Ownership mentality and results orientation
- Old-school work ethic, high energy, resilience, and urgency
- Collaborative, team-oriented leadership style, including leading by example
- Commitment to excellence and high-quality work product
- Absolute integrity and professionalism
- Executive presence and credibility
- Intellectual curiosity and strategic perspective
Key Success Measures:
- The strategic and financial impact of completed acquisitions, investments, and partnerships
- Quality and rigor of evaluations, including opportunities not pursued
- Effectiveness in sourcing acquisition, investment and partnership opportunities
- Ability to influence decision-making through compelling strategic and financial recommendations
- Leadership of cross-functional due diligence, negotiation, and execution processes
- Support of integration planning and post-close performance tracking to ensure value creation
Compensation Range: The salary range for this position is between $265,000 to $290,000 USD. Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidate's final salary including, but not limited to, relevant experience, location, skills, and education
Bonus Eligibility: Bonus Eligible
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