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Generac is seeking a Vice President of Corporate Development to shape and accelerate the company’s next phase of growth. This enterprise leadership role will set and execute the corporate development strategy across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments, and emerging growth opportunities, while serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and the Board.
Beyond leading complex transactions, this executive will continue to strengthen and evolve the Corporate Development function, bringing greater rigor, scalable processes, and strong cross-functional partnership across Generac’s global, multi-segment organization.
Major Responsibilities
Strategy & Enterprise Leadership:
Partner with executive leadership to define and prioritize enterprise-level corporate development strategy aligned with Generac’s long-term growth and value creation objectives
Serve as a trusted advisor to the Executive Leadership Team on inorganic growth, strategic alternatives, strategic investment and portfolio optimization alternatives
Be a leader of the Corporate Development function; enhancing processes, driving governance, building cross-functional relationships
M&A and Investment Execution:
Lead end-to-end transaction execution including target identification, valuation, diligence, negotiation, structuring, and closing
Develop investment theses, strategic rationales, and scenario-based recommendations for complex transactions
Oversee integration strategy and execution in partnership with business leaders, finance, legal, compliance, and operations-driving value realization in a highly matrixed environment
Evaluate and execute divestitures and strategic exits as part of broader portfolio management
Identify and execute strategic minority and venture investments and structured investments (public and private)
Maintain strong, established relationships across the investment bank, private equity and industrial eco-system
Represent Generac externally in M&A discussions and negotiations with credibility and discipline
Partner closely with legal, compliance, and finance teams to assess and manage financial, operational, regulatory, and reputational risk across the transaction lifecycle
Team Development & Culture:
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing corporate development team with clear roles, accountability, and succession planning
Maintain and enhance existing M&A processes, analytical rigor, and bring best practice tools to support enterprise-level execution
Lead with an enterprise mindset in a purpose-driven, values-based organization
Strategic Planning:
Support enterprise strategic planning process by serving as a business group resource to support strategy planning
Support business group level staff to act as a “consultant” to improve efficiency of process and final output
Responsible for continuously improving processes and tool sets to allow for business group consistency & success as well as supporting Enterprise Level strategic objectives and their communication strategy
Minimum Job Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s degree
Certification / License
Work Experience
Ten years’ experience in mergers and acquisitions, including evaluation and diligence of acquisition targets, due diligence and integration.
Fifteen years’ experience working in a corporate/business development, business strategy, investment banking or consulting environment.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Ability to effectively operate across a highly matrixed enterprise with multiple business presidents and core function leaders.
Strong quantitative skill set with experience leading and teaching financial modeling including general financial…