Hiring: Director, Corporate Development, Integration & Business Leadership Company: CTS Corporation Location: Lisle, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:21:14 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Risk Management About the job Experience: •Prior operating experience, such as P&L ownership, general management, business-unit leadership, site leadership, commercial leadership, product-line leadership, or leadership of a significant operational or strategic transformation. •Solid functional working knowledge of transaction accounting, purchase accounting, tax structuring, financing considerations, antitrust or regulatory review, and transaction documentation. Required Skills: •CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY & ORIGINATION •Partner with executive and business-unit leadership to shape inorganic growth priorities, acquisition themes, capability gaps, and market-entry strategies aligned with enterprise objectives. •Build and actively manage a prioritized pipeline of acquisition, divestiture, joint venture, minority investment, and strategic partnership opportunities. •Develop market maps, sector theses, target screens, and investment hypotheses using industry, customer, competitor, technology, and financial insights. •Cultivate relationships with business owners, executives, private equity sponsors, investment banks, advisers, and other market participants to generate proprietary and intermediated opportunities. •Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for executive management and the Board, including strategic rationale, valuation, key risks, alternatives, and recommended next steps. •Lead end-to-end transaction execution, including initial assessment, valuation, deal structuring, due diligence, negotiation support, approvals, signing, closing, and transition to integration. •Own advanced financial analyses, including three-statement models, discounted cash flow, precedent transactions, comparable companies, accretion/dilution, returns analysis, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and synergy valuation. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering, business, or a related field; MBA or other relevant advanced degree strongly preferred. •8 or more years of progressively responsible experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, transaction advisory, strategy consulting, or a comparable role, with meaningful ownership of executed M&A transactions. •Meaningful business leadership experience demonstrating commercial judgment, operational understanding, financial accountability, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to influence business performance beyond the transaction process. •Demonstrated ability to lead multiple phases of the transaction lifecycle, including sourcing, valuation, due diligence, structuring, negotiation support, approvals, and closing. •Direct experience leading post-merger integration, separation, or value-creation workstreams, including governance, synergy tracking, operating-model decisions, and executive reporting. •Advanced financial modeling and valuation capability, with the ability to independently build, audit, and communicate complex analyses and investment returns. •Willingness and ability to travel as transaction and integration needs require. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!