Senior Manager

About the Role

The Sr. Manager, Strategic Investments will be a key member of the Machinery Division’s strategic investment team at ITOCHU International Inc., driving growth through new investments and optimizing current subsidiary investments. This role blends management consulting-style strategy, principal investment analysis, and end-to-end mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process management.

Responsibilities

• Investment Origination and Strategic Opportunity Development:
  • Partner with division leadership, business departments, subsidiaries, industry participants, and external advisors to identify, screen, and prioritize acquisition, partnership, joint venture, and greenfield investment opportunities.
  • Develop market maps, investment themes, target screens, strategic rationales, and outreach materials aligned with the Machinery Division’s priorities.
  • Monitor industry, competitive, technology, regulatory, and capital-markets trends, translating findings into actionable recommendations for senior management.
• Investment Evaluation and Transaction Execution:
  • Lead day-to-day evaluation and execution for acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, restructurings, and other strategic transactions.
  • Build, review, and maintain financial models, valuation analyses, return scenarios, financing assessments, synergy cases, sensitivity analyses, and downside cases.
  • Assess strategic fit, market attractiveness, competitive positioning, business-model quality, management capabilities, risks, and value-creation potential.
  • Coordinate diligence workstreams (commercial, financial, tax, legal, operational, HR, IT, environmental, regulatory, insurance) with internal and external teams.
  • Support transaction structuring, bid strategy, negotiations, financing, documentation, regulatory processes, and closing readiness.
• Approvals, Governance, and Executive Communication:
  • Develop and coordinate investment committee and board approval materials, including executive summaries, investment theses, valuation analyses, risk assessments, and implementation plans.
  • Manage approval timelines, decision gates, stakeholder inputs, and follow-up actions across divisions, corporate functions, subsidiaries, and headquarters.
  • Present analyses and recommendations to senior executives, addressing challenges and adapting to changing information.
• Portfolio Strategy, Performance, and Value Creation:
  • Lead strategic and financial reviews of subsidiaries and investments, including performance diagnostics, benchmarking, capital allocation, and growth options.
  • Work with subsidiary management to develop strategic plans, operating priorities, and value-creation initiatives.
  • Support post-close integration, 100-day planning, governance, synergy tracking, and risk remediation.
  • Evaluate subsidiary pipeline focus and new-business initiatives, including organic growth, adjacent-market entry, partnerships, and acquisitions.
• Team Leadership and Operating Excellence:
  • Structure ambiguous problems into clear workplans, manage multiple workstreams, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs.
  • Direct and review the work of analysts, associates, consultants, and cross-functional team members, providing coaching and feedback.
  • Build trusted relationships with subsidiary executives, internal leaders, lenders, investment banks, consultants, and transaction participants.
  • Improve investment processes, analytical tools, approval templates, and portfolio monitoring while maintaining controls and confidentiality.

Qualifications

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Skills

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