smartwith heart
Corporate Development & M&A Professional
Ghent, Belgium - Internal Services department
Do you want hands-on exposure to strategic acquisitions, partnerships and investments? Are you excited to work closely with executives on high-impact strategic decisions? Ready to join the place where smart solutions meet human collaboration?
If so, you could be the Corporate Development & M&A Professional we’re looking for. Read on!
Our offer
We offer you more than just a job. Our culture and benefits inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- Continuous learning: Access customized training, coaching programs, and on-the-job development opportunities.
- Flexibility: Flex your schedule with working from home, adaptable hours, and the autonomy to shape your routine.
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits.
- Collaborative culture: Cross-team collaboration and creative challenges that encourage you to share knowledge, celebrate wins, and grow together.
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: Thrive in a workplace that supports your physical and mental health by promoting a wide range of facilities and activities like birthday events, sports sessions, in-house coaches, and healthy meal options.
Our company
We’re a leading game changer that optimizes supply chains with our very own smart software and services. With a team of 1,400+ passionate, creative minds from over 70 nationalities, we help the world’s largest companies to run their supply chains more efficiently and sustainably. Our customers include BASF, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. Ready to be smart with heart? Join our team where technical expertise and human connection create solutions that scale globally and make a lasting impression.
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Your challenge
As a Corporate Development & M&A Professional, you support the identification, evaluation and execution of strategic initiatives across M&A, partnerships and investments. The role combines strong analytical rigor with strategic market insight and contributes to building and managing a pipeline of potential opportunities, performing financial and strategic analyses, and supporting transaction execution.
In addition, the position offers progressive exposure to partnership discussions, ecosystem engagement and post-transaction integration initiatives. The role works in close collaboration with the Investment Committee, Finance and Legal teams, and business leadership, and offers direct exposure to executive-level decision-making within a fast-growing, international, technology-driven organization.
You are responsible for:
- Contributing to the identification, sourcing and screening of potential acquisition, partnership and investment opportunities aligned with OMP’s strategic priorities.
- Actively supporting market and opportunity mapping across relevant domains, including supply chain software, AI-driven planning solutions, solver technologies and related IT services.
- Driving financial and strategic analyses to assess strategic fit, value creation potential, scalability and risks.
- Preparing clear, structured analysis and decision-support materials for the Investment Committee and senior management.
- Supporting the end-to-end transaction process, including preparation of investment materials, coordination of internal stakeholders and interaction with external advisors.
- Coordinating and supporting financial, legal and operational due-diligence processes, ensuring high-quality outputs across all workstreams.
- Contributing to deal structuring discussions and negotiation preparation together with senior stakeholders.
- Supporting post-transaction integration planning and follow-up, including monitoring of value creation and synergies.
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners, including potential targets, management teams, advisors and ecosystem participants.
About you
Essential talents and qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Management or other relevant disciplines.
- Proven experience with prior buy-side experience or in advisory backgrounds such as Investment Banking, M&A, or within a relevant division of a Big 4 (Transaction Services, Valuation/Business Modelling, M&A and Corporate Finance), preferably in a technology, software, SaaS, AI, or IT services context.
- Solid exposure to M&A and strategic transaction processes, including opportunity assessment, valuation, due diligence and transaction execution.
- Strong financial and analytical capabilities, with the ability to assess strategic fit, value creation potential and risks.
- Structured, pragmatic and execution-oriented mindset, with the ability to synthesize complex information, manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in lean, fast-moving environments.
- Strong business acumen and strategic curiosity, with interest in software-driven and technology-enabled business models.
- Basic legal awareness in the context of transaction processes, with familiarity with common deal structures, documentation and advisor-led workflows.
- Ability to interact credibly with senior management and multifunctional stakeholders, acting as a trusted and reliable sparring partner.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Entrepreneurial attitude, high level of ownership, discretion and integrity.
- Fluent in English; Dutch preferred.