Corporate Development Manager

Discover Your Impact at Sendcloud

At Sendcloud, we’re on a mission to become the leading shipping solution worldwide. As the Corporate Development Manager, you will source, evaluate, and execute strategic growth opportunities—from deal origination and due diligence to integration. You’ll work on high-impact projects that shape the future of Sendcloud.

Your team

You’ll join the Corporate Development and Partnerships team, working closely with the founders, C-suite, finance, product, and commercial leaders, reporting to the VP of Corporate Development and Partnerships.

Together, we execute on our M&A strategy and drive strategic initiatives through acquisitions, partnerships, and integrations, ensuring Sendcloud continues to expand and strengthen its market position.

⭐ Key Responsibilities

Deal Origination & Sourcing

• Continuously map and monitor the European logistics and SaaS landscape to identify attractive acquisition and partnership opportunities.
• Proactively build and maintain a pipeline of target companies through industry research, networking, and direct outreach.
• Establish strong relationships with founders, advisors, and industry stakeholders to ensure Sendcloud has early visibility on opportunities.

Strategic & Financial Evaluation

• Lead the preparation of investment cases, including market analysis, competitive positioning, and strategic fit assessments.
• Build and own financial models, scenario analyses, and valuation frameworks to support decision-making.
• Synthesize insights into clear recommendations for leadership and board-level discussions.

Transaction Execution

• Manage full due diligence processes across Finance, Legal, Tech, Product, and People, ensuring risks and opportunities are surfaced early.
• Partner with external advisors (banks, lawyers, consultants) to drive efficient and high-quality outcomes as needed.
• Support deal structuring, term sheet negotiations, and transaction documentation through to closing.

Post-Merger Integration

• Design integration roadmaps, governance structures, and success metrics aligned with deal rationale.
• Drive cross-functional workstreams, facilitate decision-making, and remove roadblocks to ensure seamless integration.
• Monitor synergy capture and financial ROI, providing transparent reporting to leadership on progress and issues.
• Improve Sendcloud’s integration playbooks, processes, and best practices for future transactions.

Strategic Projects & Leadership Support

• Contribute to company-wide strategic initiatives such as partnerships, joint ventures, or new market entries.
• Lead or support other high-impact projects where your project management and stakeholder management skills can accelerate execution.

💗 Our perfect match

• Experience: 3–5 years in corporate development, private equity, or management consulting, with exposure to full deal cycles. Experience in SaaS or tech scale-ups is a plus.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of valuation, transaction structuring, and integration best practices.
• Skills:
  - Advanced financial modeling and analytical skills. - Proven ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders. - Excellent negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Mindset: Proactive, commercially driven, highly collaborative, with a can-do and ownership mentality.
• Thrives in high pace and dynamic environment
• Language: Fluent in English (Dutch or other European languages are a strong plus).
• Flexibility: Willingness to travel as needed across Europe,
• Working location: Minimum 3-4 days a week from Eindhoven office

You share our core values:

• 💩No bullshit - we don’t like big egos, we like honesty, transparency & openness. Share your mistakes with us and learn from them!

• 🎯Grow & Win - Keep on learning and improving, from each other, mistakes and by actively searching for ways to keep on developing your skills

• 🎠Have fun - you are not afraid to be yourself and you love to be surrounded by your awesome colleagues!

Benefits 🎉

• A flexible hybrid working model and a dedicated 500€ budget to set up your home office 🏠
• A good base salary that grows with the company and your accomplishments
• After 3 years of employment, you get a sabbatical of 4 weeks from us
• Keep growing with a study budget of €2000,- per year!
• Stay fit in our Sendcloud gym and weekly bootcamp sessions!
• Pension scheme
• Discount on health insurance
• Access to many different discount programs, shop til you drop! 🛍

We want our people to be and become the best version of themselves. That’s why we offer you an awesome perks and benefits package to enjoy on—and off—the job.