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Director Corporate Development

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and closing acquisitions to support Stord's growth strategy. You will work closely with senior leaders and manage cross-functional diligence, contributing to the company's mission of enhancing consumer experiences through strategic acquisitions.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in M&A, investment banking, private equity, or corporate development.
  • Record of closed buy side deals with direct ownership of diligence and execution.
  • Strong financial modeling and valuation skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead day to day execution of M&A transactions from first meeting through close.
  • Build and maintain financial models for valuation, synergies, and returns.
  • Manage the target pipeline and run outreach to owners, bankers, and lenders.
  • Draft memos and presentations for the CEO, executive team, and board.

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Full time
  • Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
  • Corporate Development Director
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Communication
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Stord

  • Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Scaleup
  • 501–1,000
Stord is on a mission to make supply chain a competitive advantage for our customers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the heart of Atlanta’s vibrant tech community, Stord is pioneering Cloud Supply Chain. Cloud Supply Chain is the convergence of the digital and physical elements of logistics. With Stord, businesses can build, expand, and optimize their physical supply chain operations across freight, warehousing, and fulfillment, with the speed, flexibility, and ease of modern cloud software. With a single integration, businesses achieve end-to-end visibility into their whole supply chains from a single dashboard and gain access to Stord’s hybrid network of operated facilities and hundreds of premier-partner warehouses, fulfillment centers, and carriers. Hundreds of B2B and B2C companies like BODYARMOR, Native, Tula, Advance Auto Parts, Thrasio, Dollar General, REDCON1, TruConnect, American Giant and Goodr use Stord to make their supply chains perform with the speed, flexibility, and ease of the cloud. Led by former operators from Amazon, XPO, and Manhattan Associates, Stord is headquartered in Atlanta and backed by leading investors, including Kleiner Perkins, BOND, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, D1 Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Susa Ventures, and Lineage Logistics.

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Job description

ABOUT STORD


Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. Stord is rapidly growing and strategically scaling teams across the entire company, and seeking energetic experts to help us achieve our mission.


By combining comprehensive commerce-enablement technology with high-volume fulfillment services, Stord provides brands a platform to compete with retail giants. Stord manages over $10 billion of commerce annually through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, and operator-built software suite including OMS, Pre- and Post-Purchase, and WMS platforms. Stord is leveling the playing field for all brands to deliver the best consumer experience at scale.


With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive sustained customer loyalty. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with leading technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, easy access to more channels, and improved margins on every order.


Hundreds of leading DTC and B2B companies like True Classic, Native, Seed Health, goodr, Sundays for Dogs, and more trust Stord to deliver industry-leading consumer experiences on every order. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta with facilities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stord is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Strike Capital, Baillie Gifford, and Salesforce Ventures.

About the role
Stord is building the physical intelligence layer for independent commerce, and acquisitions are a core part of how we grow. As a member of a small Corporate Development team, you will help source, evaluate, negotiate, and close acquisitions of fulfillment operators, logistics assets, and commerce software companies. You will work directly with senior leaders on deals that shape the company.

What you will do

  • Lead day to day execution of M&A transactions from first meeting through close, including workplans, issues lists, and advisor coordination.
  • Build and maintain financial models for valuation, synergies, and returns, and turn diligence findings into price and term recommendations.
  • Manage the target pipeline: maintain the market map, score targets against the acquisition criteria, and run outreach to owners, bankers, lenders, and other sources.
  • Coordinate cross functional diligence across finance, legal, tax, operations, IT, and commercial teams, and manage outside advisors.
  • Draft memos and presentations for the CEO, executive team, and board.
  • Hand off each deal to the integration team with a complete pre close package, and track post close results against the deal thesis.
  • Improve CorpDev process and playbooks, and mentor analysts or contractors as the team grows.
  • Support strategic evaluation of partnerships, adjacent markets, and build versus buy decisions.

What you bring

  • 8+ years in M&A, investment banking, private equity, or corporate development, with experience at the level of the role.
  • A record of closed buy side deals, with direct ownership of diligence and execution.
  • Strong financial modeling and valuation skills and sound judgment on quality of earnings.
  • Working knowledge of deal structures, purchase agreements, working capital, earnouts, and tax structuring.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, and comfort presenting to senior executives.
  • Strong project management and the ability to run several workstreams at once.
  • A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field. An MBA or CFA is a plus.

Preferred experience

  • Logistics, supply chain, e-commerce, fulfillment, or commerce software sectors.
  • Carve outs, distressed transactions, or roll ups of smaller private companies.
  • Sourcing and origination programs.
  • International or cross border transactions.

Why Stord

  • Active, programmatic acquirer with a leadership team that is investing in M&A capability.
  • Direct exposure to the CEO, president, CFO, and board.
  • Real ownership and scope in a function that is still being built.
  • A company with scale (more than 1,000 brands and nearly 100 fulfillment locations) and a clear AI and automation strategy.

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