Sr Director – M&A Deal Lead

Job Description Summary

In this role, the candidate will be responsible for the program management of all DT tasks for the divestitures, mergers and acquisitions within the GE Vernova Mergers & Acquisitions team. This includes owning all DT separation and integration activities and TSA management throughout the deal cycle — from pre-sign through post-close.

The candidate will handle escalations and engage key stakeholders as needed and will partner with a team of DT functional leads to ensure all aspects of the DT divestiture process are covered and completed.

• Own technology M&A readiness and execution across Day 1, Day 30, Day 100, and post-close horizons, ensuring secure, scalable, and value-aligned technology outcomes that support deal rationale and business continuity.
• Lead deep technology due diligence and risk translation, converting findings across applications, infrastructure, data, cloud, and cybersecurity into clear deal risks, mitigation strategies, and executable integration or separation plans.
• Drive technology synergy identification and value realization, including platform rationalization, vendor consolidation, cost optimization, and modernization opportunities, with measurable outcomes tied to deal objectives.
• Define and govern target-state technology architecture and TSA exit strategy, ensuring TSAs are outcome-based, time-bound, and optimized to eliminate stranded costs while accelerating independence or integration.
• Supports Leadership in executing on Business Development (BD) transactions including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, partnerships / alliances, and licensing.
• Operate as the primary point of contact for divestitures, acquisitions, and joint ventures on behalf of GE Vernova DT.
• Leads various phases of the transaction process including analysis of inorganic strategy and markets, target identification and screening, structuring, valuation, due diligence, negotiation and closing.
• Extensive engagement with GE Vernova BD team and Finance/​Sourcing TSA team to manage deal pipeline, Non‑Disclosure Agreements (NDA) requirements, due diligence negotiation and provision/request of information, creation of TSA estimates, creation of integration/separation project cost estimates.
• Negotiate with counter party on behalf of GE Vernova, per the DT M&A Delegation of Authority.
• Ensure wind‑down activities across DT are properly managed.
• Ensure no stranded costs to GE Vernova through TSA and Separation cost management while minimizing disruption to the employees (to/from GE Vernova’s internal systems and tools) and maintaining business continuity throughout the process.
• Extensive engagement with GE Vernova Finance TSA team to ensure compliance with DT standards.
• Implement program governance and oversight for the deal.
• Work with DT community to define standards to be applicable across multiple acquisition.
• Track and monitor program status and metrics to ensure milestones are met, and internal and external delivery commitments are met.
• Lead cross‑discipline teams to establish an integrated plan to deliver team commitments. Collaborate with functional owners(s), project technical team(s), project managers within program and interdependencies teams.
• Responsible for owning budget planning, resource management, and execution timelines. Responsible for managing the selection, and contract negotiation for vendors of services that are utilized.
• Leverage deep technology, process, and domain expertise to drive execution.
• Ensure ongoing communication of progress against program objectives.
• Leverage Lean to collaborate on and drive process improvement for GE Vernova M&A.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or equivalent knowledge or experience.
• Significant experience in leading DT teams in Program Management
• Experience with mergers and acquisitions, TSAs (Transitional Services Agreements) and Business Development practices.
• Various experience in Project/Program Management, driving cross‑functional engagement and benefits, leading large and global programs.
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