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Salary: USD 200,000 - 300,000 / annual
Amca is a defense and aerospace manufacturing company focused on restoring America's critical supply chain capabilities and engineering capacity. The Capabilities Director is a strategic role within the Corporate Development team, reporting to the CFO, responsible for driving Amca's acquisition and growth strategy through rigorous commercial analysis, market research, and post-close execution.
In this role, you will:
• Conduct commercial diligence on acquisition targets—sizing addressable markets, assessing competitive positioning, analyzing customer relationships and contract structures, and developing grounded views of commercial trajectories.
• Research and identify acquisition and build opportunities—identifying targets that fill strategic gaps in Amca's portfolio, developing buy-vs.-build analyses, and synthesizing findings into investment theses that inform capital deployment priorities.
• Support post-close value creation—helping newly acquired businesses identify commercial opportunities, track performance against acquisition theses, and provide analytical and operational support during integration.
• Lead special projects across the platform—from strategic planning and competitive benchmarking to operational analysis and new market entry assessments, bringing rigorous thinking and bias toward action.
• Develop deep expertise in aerospace and defense supply chains—building fluency in part families, manufacturing processes, customer structures, and program economics to sharpen Amca's edge in evaluating and integrating acquisitions.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and general managers to ground analyses in operational reality and ensure recommendations are actionable.
• Communicate findings to senior leadership through crisp written analyses, market assessments, and investment memos that drive conviction and support fast decision-making.
This is a high-impact role designed for someone who can move fluidly between deal analysis, market research, and operational execution, thriving in environments where work is broad, stakes are high, and no two weeks look the same.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 3–6 years of work experience in a high-pressure, analytically rigorous role (investment banking, private equity, management consulting, corporate development, or strategic finance)
• Exceptional analytical and research skills—ability to size markets, assess competitive dynamics, and build business cases from first principles with limited data
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Genuine intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning how things are made, how markets work, and how businesses create value
• Comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with a large breadth of problems
• Humble attitude, relentless work ethic, and passion for solving hard problems
• Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or protected person)
