Senior Associate, Corporate Development

It’s never been a more exciting time to join Vistra.

At Vistra our purpose is progress. We believe that our clients have the power to change the world and to do great things for global progress, and we exist to remove the friction that comes from the complexity of global business – to help our clients achieve progress without friction. 

But progress only happens when people come together and take action. And we’re absolutely committed to building a culture where our people can do just that.  

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Senior Associate within Corporate Development, supporting the integration of acquired companies and the separation of divested businesses. This full-time hybrid role offers regional coverage and the chance to make a significant impact on our inorganic growth agenda.

Purpose of the Role:

The Senior Associate is responsible for planning and executing seamless integration, separation and carve-out strategies, operating through a robust Integration Management Office (IMO). The role focuses on day-to-day delivery of complex, cross-functional programs to ensure deal objectives are achieved, value is realized, and disruption to the business is minimized across M&A transactions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Integration, separation & carve-out delivery

• Design and execute end-to-end integration, separation and carve-out plans aligned to deal rationale and value drivers.
• Lead oversight of assigned workstreams through the Integration Management Office (IMO).
• Design and maintain detailed execution plans, including milestones, dependencies and critical path activities.
• Ensure business continuity and operational stability throughout transition periods with deal Sponsors.
• Support TSA design, execution and exit where applicable.

2. Stakeholder management

• Partner with senior stakeholders to drive delivery and resolve issues.
• Prepare and present IMO reporting for steering committees and executive forums.
• Proactively surface risks, issues and decision points with clear recommendations.

3. Governance, reporting & value tracking

• Own integration and separation reporting through the IMO, including progress, risks and financial impacts.
• Track synergies and value creation with the deal team.
• Develop and track one-off integration/separation costs.

4. Change management & communications

• Support change management and communications across integration and separation programs.
• Work with HR and leadership teams to support cultural integration, organizational design and workforce transitions.

5. Continuous Improvement:

• Capture lessons learned and feed into integration playbooks and IMO standards.
• Contribute to the development of tools, templates and best-practice IMO approaches.

Requirements:

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• 2 - 5 years of relevant work experience in M&A integration and/ or operational due diligence consulting, in the integration department of MNCs or, Big 4’s; and/or performance improvement (value creation) or business transformation projects in an M&A context.
• Experience operating effectively in complex, fast-paced environments and delivering integration updates to C-suite executive teams.
• Strong project management skills
• Strong communication skills, result-oriented and solution-oriented and able to bring about changes;
• Enthusiastic, proactive and self-starting;
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with “can do“ approach
• The ability to influence and drive geographically dispersed teams
• Must have proven ability to realign priorities rapidly to meet evolving business requirements. 

Desirable

• Experience with TSAs and Day 1 / Day 100 planning.
• Experience tracking synergies and value realisation.

Project or programme management qualifications (e.g. Prince2, PMP, MBA).