Heritage Environmental Services, LLC - Director, Mergers and Acquisitions
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Type: Full Time | Salary | Corporate
About Heritage Environmental Services
Headquartered in Indianapolis with over 1,600 employees across the United States, Heritage Environmental Services proudly provides safe and compliant industrial waste management solutions to clients across the country. Our legacy of environmental leadership was founded on the precipice of the environmental movement in the 1970s, and since our inception, we've been solving complex problems in the name of a cleaner world.
Primary Purpose:
The Director, Mergers and Acquisitions is responsible for developing and executing the evaluation, financial, and operational strategy for mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture projects for the organization.
This role and the Mergers and Acquisitions function are new to the organization and will have the opportunity to help establish M&A targets and practices across the Company.
Essential Functions & Requirements:
- Ensures Health & Safety is the number one goal by following policies, processes, and acting in a safe manner at all times.
- Develops and executes the evaluation, financial, and operational strategy for mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture projects for the organization.
- Advises on and evaluates deal rationale, financial projections, risk assessment, and financial implications.
- Oversees due diligence, financial planning, scoping, negotiations, closing, and integration of organizations involved in the merger or acquisition.
- Plans and implements negotiation strategies and leads negotiations with stakeholders.
- Monitors post-deal integration activities, including synergy goals.
- Conducts industry research, competitive analyses, and financial due diligence.
- Monitors the accuracy of target pipeline, project flow, and key milestones to ensure the timely execution of transactions.
- Actively maintains the M&A pipeline distribution to the executive leadership team.
- Maintains contact with large pools of independent owners and competitive or strategic targets for tracking the pipeline of acquisitions.
- Conducts meetings with potential sellers on-site/in market to build relationships.
- Attends regional trade shows and conventions to further assess existing or potential pipeline targets.
- Partners with Sales leaders to gain feedback for succession planning reviews and engagement of acquisition targets and planning.
- Prepares reports and presentations for the Board of Directors, executive leadership, and other stakeholders.
- Oversees all activities of junior M&A personnel and actively develops their capabilities to further benefit the M&A process within the organization.
- Maintains a willingness and ability to travel up to 30% of the time, which may include overnights.
- Completes other duties or projects as assigned.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Economics or related field (required). MBA (preferred).
Experience:
7+ years of experience in Corporate Development, Investment Banking, Private Equity/Venture Capital or Consulting (required). Previous experience with M&A deal execution and integration (required). Previous experience in U.S. government contracting and/or corporate social responsibility (preferred).
Skills:
Strong financial modeling and analysis skills, knowledge of research databases and tools, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, strong verbal and written communication skills, executive presentation skills, ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team, strong personal initiative, and regular and predictable attendance.
Benefits:
Heritage offers competitive pay and bonus incentives, including medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending or health savings accounts, employee and dependent life insurance, short and long-term disability, 401(k) savings plan with company match, and tuition reimbursement.
A post-offer drug screen will be required.
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