Senior Director M&A Strategy (m/f/x)

Senior Director M&A Strategy (m/f/x) Contract Type: Full time – permanent

Be An Essential Part Of Everyday Life

Position: Senior Director M&A Strategy (m/f/x) Contract Type: Full time – permanent Travel Required: Less than 20% Location: Bonn, Germany Advertising End Date: 22nd September

At DHL our business is logistics, but people are our passion. With over 500,000 team members in 220 countries, we attract and retain great talent. We are one of the most innovative, most culturally diverse companies on the planet. We provide unmatched opportunities for personal and professional development. We really are a “Best Place to Work”.

Are you passionate about M&A, strategic partnerships, and driving growth on a global scale? Join DHL Supply Chain as our Senior Director M&A Strategy and play a key role in shaping the division's inorganic growth agenda.

Working directly with senior leaders, including the General Management Board, you'll identify, assess, and help execute acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships that support our ambitious growth strategy. From developing the global M&A pipeline and evaluating new opportunities to influencing deal structures and integration plans, you'll be at the heart of DHL Supply Chain's most strategic investments.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced M&A, corporate development, strategy consulting, investment banking, or private equity professional to work across regions, products, and functions, partnering with senior stakeholders around the world to deliver long-term value and growth.

If you're commercially minded, analytically strong, and thrive in a fast-paced international environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Your key accountabilities include:

Inorganic Strategy & Process Administration

• Develop, refresh and obtain sign-off of the divisional inorganic strategy, including focus growth areas, AGSs or core services aligned with global and regional stakeholders
• Provide input and steering / consulting to regions ensuring consistency with the inorganic strategy of the division
• Schedule, prepare and run all M&A pipeline review calls and the M&A SteerCo; secure timely stakeholder alignments with the GMB, regions, or AGS leads as needed.

M&A / JV Deal Execution & Project Support

• Provide divisional business validation, assumptions and challenge to M&A I and M&A II proposals, covering strategic fit, commercial logic, operational feasibility, key business plan assumptions, and integration considerations.
• Contribute divisional input on deal structure options, valuation assumptions, risk considerations, and regulatory implications
• Ensure timely alignment of regional, product and functional stakeholders within the division

Deal Pipeline Development

• Contribute to the development of the deal pipeline by defining deal theses, target characteristics and business priorities
• Provide strategic assessments and business perspectives on incoming opportunities sourced through various channels
• Leverage market intelligence, divisional networks and sector insights to feed opportunities and leads into the divisional M&A pipeline

What are we looking for from you?

• Strong experience in M&A, Corporate Development, Strategy Consulting, Investment Banking or Private Equity, with at least one full-cycle transaction (origination through integration) led or co-led
• Strong M&A process management (NDA → CIM → IOI/LOI → DD → SPA → closing → integration)
• Solid command of valuation methodologies (DCF, trading and transaction multiples, LBO logic), financial modelling and due diligence work-streams.
• Familiarity with deal sourcing platforms (e.g. Sealk, Mergermarket, S&P Capital IQ) and the M&A advisor / boutique landscape in logistics.
• Strong project management skills
• Strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to translate market trends into actionable deal theses.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and executive presence – able to influence GMB-level and Group-level stakeholders.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management capabilities.
• High personal integrity and ability to handle highly confidential information.
• Resilience and ability to manage parallel work-streams under tight deadlines.
• Team player with strong own initiative; capable of working independently across time zones.

We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent, and consistent across the Globe. We want to ensure that the candidate experience is of the highest professional standard.

The Company is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. Furthermore, we aim to ensure our workplaces are free from discrimination and that not only employees but also our potential future employees are treated fairly and with dignity and respect. We will ensure that equality of opportunity maintains a high profile in our organisation.