Corporate Development Manager (M&A)

Travel:

Minimal travel required, Once a quarter throughout North America potentially for tradeshows, conferences, team meetings, and meeting with prospective acquisition targets

Perseus is focused on acquiring and growing software businesses. The Corporate Development team plays a key role in identifying, developing, and nurturing long-term relationships that can lead to successful acquisitions.

Perseus is seeking a Manager, Corporate Development to help source current and future M&A opportunities within the software industry. This role is focused on building and maintaining long-term strategic relationships with software company decision makers, including CEOs, founders, owners, corporate development leaders, M&A advisors, and private equity or venture capital professionals.

Success in this role comes from creating meaningful relationships, developing a strong acquisition pipeline, and contributing to Perseus’ long-term growth through disciplined market research, thoughtful outreach, and high-quality M&A conversations.

Develop and manage an M&A pipeline through Salesforce CRM.

Create market maps and build strong relationships within assigned software industry verticals.

Ensure lead database allocation is accurate across portfolio verticals.

Effectively qualify opportunities at the top of the acquisition funnel to help Portfolio Managers focus on the strongest opportunities.

Maintain consistent, value-added communication with prospects over a multi-year relationship-building cycle.

3+ years of experience in business development, sales, account management, or a client-facing M&A/finance-related role.

• Experience in a software company or outbound-focused origination role is preferred.
• Strong interest in building a long-term career in software investing and M&A relationship development.
• Proven ability to succeed in an autonomous, high-performance environment.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence and executive presence to engage with CEOs, founders, owners, M&A advisors, corporate development leaders, and investment professionals.
• The estimated base salary range for this role is CAD$75,000 - CAD$85,000 yearly + Bonus. We may use AI tools to support and streamline parts of our recruitment process, such as scheduling, and note-taking. AI helps us work more efficiently and consistently, but it never replaces human judgment. We recognize the value and importance of diversity and inclusion in our communities and in the workplace. We celebrate diversity and one of our goals as an employer is to create an inclusive work environment for all employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation including gender identity or expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other category or characteristic protected by law.

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