Job Description
Eindhoven HQ (3-4x a week at the office)
This is what you tell people at parties
At Sendcloud, we’re on a mission to become the leading shipping solution worldwide. As the Corporate Development Manager, I source, evaluate, and execute strategic growth opportunities—from deal origination and due diligence to integration. I get to work on high-impact projects that shape the future of Sendcloud.
Your team
You’ll join the Corporate Development and Partnerships team, working closely with the founders, C-suite, finance, product, and commercial leaders, reporting to the VP of Corporate Development and Partnerships.
Together, we execute on our M&A strategy and we drive strategic initiatives through acquisitions, partnerships, and integrations, ensuring Sendcloud continues to expand and strengthen its market position.
⭐ Key Responsibilities
Deal Origination & Sourcing
- Continuously map and monitor the European logistics and SaaS landscape to identify attractive acquisition and partnership opportunities.
- Proactively build and maintain a pipeline of target companies through industry research, networking, and direct outreach.
- Establish strong relationships with founders, advisors, and industry stakeholders to ensure Sendcloud has early visibility on opportunities.
Strategic & Financial Evaluation
- Lead the preparation of investment cases, including market analysis, competitive positioning, and strategic fit assessments.
- Build and own financial models, scenario analyses, and valuation frameworks to support decision-making.
- Synthesize insights into clear recommendations for leadership and board-level discussions.
Transaction Execution
- Manage full due diligence processes across Finance, Legal, Tech, Product, and People, ensuring risks and opportunities are surfaced early.
- Partner with external advisors (banks, lawyers, consultants) to drive efficient and high-quality outcomes as needed.
- Support deal structuring, term sheet negotiations, and transaction documentation through to closing.
Post-Merger Integration
- Design integration roadmaps, governance structures, and success metrics aligned with deal rationale.
- Drive cross-functional workstreams, facilitate decision-making, and remove roadblocks to ensure seamless integration.
- Monitor synergy capture and financial ROI, providing transparent reporting to leadership on progress and issues.
- Improve Sendcloud’s integration playbooks, processes, and best practices for future transactions.
Strategic Projects & Leadership Support
- Contribute to company-wide strategic initiatives such as partnerships, joint ventures, or new market entries.
- Lead or support other high-impact projects where your project management and stakeholder management skills can accelerate execution.
💗 Our perfect match
- Experience: 3–5 years in corporate development, private equity, or management consulting, with exposure to full deal cycles. Experience in SaaS or tech scale-ups is a plus.
- Knowledge: Strong understanding of valuation, transaction structuring, and integration best practices.
- Skills:
- Advanced financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Mindset: Proactive, commercially driven, highly collaborative, with a can-do and ownership mentality.
- Thrives in high pace and dynamic environment
- Language: Fluent in English (Dutch or other European languages are a strong plus).
- Flexibility: Willingness to travel as needed across Europe,
- Working location: Minimum 3-4 days a week from Eindhoven office
You share our core values;
💩No bullshit - we don’t like big egos, we like honesty, transparency & openness. Share your mistakes with us and learn from them!
🎯Grow & Win - Keep on learning and improving, from each other, mistakes and by actively searching for ways to keep on developing your skills
🎠Have fun - you are not afraid to be yourself and you love to be surrounded by your awesome colleagues!
Benefits 🎉
A flexible hybrid working model and a dedicated 500€ budget to set up your home office 🏠
A good base salary that grows with the company and your accomplishments
After 3 years of employment, you get a sabbatical of 4 weeks from us
Keep growing with a study budget of €2000,- per year!
Stay fit in our Sendcloud gym and weekly bootcamp sessions!
Pension scheme
Discount on health insurance
Access to many different discount programs, shop til you drop! 🛍
