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CSC Generation is a holding company with 13+ brands that grows primarily through acquisitions. As Vice President of M&A Origination, you will own the end-to-end strategy for sourcing and originating deals, building the proprietary pipeline that feeds the investment process.
You will set the origination strategy—defining coverage markets, mapping the universe of acquisition targets, identifying new categories for expansion, and establishing bolt-on strategies for existing platforms. You'll develop and defend a clear point of view on your sectors, including market trends, consolidation dynamics, and valuation multiples. Your goal within the first year is to build a fully functional origination engine with defined coverage markets, a growing proprietary pipeline, a systematized intermediary network, and qualified opportunities advancing through investment.
On the sourcing side, you will source proprietary opportunities directly from owners, founders, and management teams before formal processes exist. You'll build and systematize relationships with investment banks, corporate development teams, brokers, lenders, and restructuring advisors so CSC is the first call when relevant assets come to market. You'll represent CSC credibly in conversations with owners, boards, and advisors, articulating value creation strategy and deal certainty.
You will screen opportunities against investment criteria, build initial commercial cases, and present clear recommendations to the investment team with market context, seller motivation, valuation, and risk assessment. You'll stay with deals through close, remaining the relationship owner and contributing to deal documents. You'll maintain pipeline discipline using modern sourcing, CRM, and AI tooling.
You'll also design and run referral and external advisor programs to scale sourcing capacity, develop junior origination talent, and set execution standards across the function. This is a lean team where you own significant scope, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility. You will work on a small, senior team where the person who found the deal is in the room when acquisition decisions are made.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10–15 years in private equity, investment banking, or comparable principal-investing environment with business development or deal origination as a major component
- Track record of sourcing transactions that closed at volume—proprietary or limited-process deals you personally found, cultivated, and advanced
- Deep, current network across bankers, brokers, corporate development teams, lenders, and advisors in the middle market, with standing to open doors independently
- Investing judgment to evaluate opportunities and defend views to an investment committee
- Proven ability to build a funnel from scratch—constructing target universe, segmenting, running outreach cadence, sustaining multi-year relationships
- Fluency with sourcing and CRM platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents) and comfort using AI tooling
- Ability to manage pipeline quantitatively—coverage, conversion, activity—and set team targets
- Willingness to travel regularly to targets, lenders, advisors, and industry events
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in consumer, retail, ecommerce, or multi-unit businesses
- Exposure to carve-outs, distressed, and special-situations transactions
- Familiarity with deal financing and transaction structuring
- Experience building or leading a sourcing effort or origination team
