Deals | Corporate M&A Senior Manager

At PwC, the Deals | Corporate M&A Senior Manager focuses on providing strategic advice and support for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. This role involves analyzing market trends, assessing business opportunities, and developing strategic frameworks to guide clients in making informed decisions. The manager will navigate complex transactions, identify risks and opportunities, and develop strategies to maximize value and achieve business objectives, playing a crucial role in formulating and executing effective deal-making strategies.

Must Have

• Provide strategic advice and support for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring.
• Analyse market trends and assess business opportunities.
• Develop strategic frameworks for client deal decisions.
• Navigate complex transactions and identify risks/opportunities.
• Formulate and execute effective deal-making strategies.
• Plan and execute corporate development strategy, market screens, portfolio reviews, commercial due diligence, and post-merger integration or carve-out projects for PwC in EMEA.
• Manage and coordinate complex, cross-border projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee deal pipeline and execute value creation plans.
• Ensure smooth handover from strategy and diligence into integration execution.
• Hold an excellent university degree (Master’s or MBA) in business administration, mathematics, engineering, natural or social sciences.
• 5+ years of work experience across the deal lifecycle (strategy consulting, M&A department, private equity).
• Successfully delivered portfolio reviews, market entry assessment, commercial due diligence, and transformation or value creation projects.
• Experience managing direct reports and coordinating diverse, international project teams.
• Comfortable working with global colleagues and navigating complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Excellent English skills (C1 or C2).
• Well experienced with tech tools and a good understanding of databases.

Good to Have

• German language skills
• Experience in the business services industry

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals.

Those in deal strategy at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. Your work will involve analysing market trends, assessing business opportunities, and developing strategic frameworks to guide clients in making informed decisions regarding their deals. You will help clients navigate complex transactions, identify potential risks and opportunities, and develop strategies to maximise value and achieve their business objectives. Working in this area, you will play a crucial role in assisting clients in formulating and executing effective strategies to optimise outcomes in their deal-making processes.

Each year, PwC network firms acquire 10-15 companies across the EMEA region. The majority of these operate in the most vibrant growth areas such as technology, cyber security, and digital consulting. To further drive PwC’s growth, the Corporate M&A team is seeking to recruit the best professionals to advise PwC’s management board. Candidates will be selected based on the best overall fit in terms of experience, skills, and motivation.

As a member of the Corporate M&A team, you will plan and execute corporate development strategy, market screens, portfolio reviews, commercial due diligence and post-merger integration or carve-out projects for PwC in the EMEA region. This includes the management and coordination of complex, cross-border projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

You will oversee deal pipeline and execute value creation plans, and ensure smooth handover from strategy and diligence into integration execution.

You will help PwC grow and thereby create a network within PwC, with its advisors, and with other professional services firms. Your advice will influence PwC’s market share, profitability, and return on investment.

Requirements

• You hold an excellent university degree (Master’s or MBA) in business administration, (business-) mathematics, engineering, natural or social sciences.
• You have 5+ years of work experience across the deal lifecycle, including strategy consulting, in the strategy/M&A department of a well-known company, in the private equity industry or equivalent.
• You have successfully delivered portfolio reviews, market entry assessment, commercial due diligence, and transformation or value creation projects, in a dynamic environment (preferably in the business services industry).
• Your experience equips you with the tools and mindset to manage direct reports and coordinate a diverse and international project team.
• You feel comfortable in working with global colleagues and enjoy navigating through a complex stakeholder landscape.
• You have exceptional communication skills and excellent English skills (C1 or C2, additionally German is considered a plus).
• You are well experienced with tech tools and have a good understanding of databases.