2025– · Senior Manager, Business Development & Partnerships

A disciplined path to inorganic growth

A screening method that spends executive attention only where it counts.

Challenge

Growth ambitions that organic sales alone may not reach call for acquisitions or investments. Screening without a method wastes leadership time and invites bias toward whatever is most visible.

Strategic thinking

A tiered framework makes early filtering cheap and saves deep diligence for a small number of candidates with real strategic fit.

Action

  • Built a three-tier investment and target evaluation framework based on strategic fit, market attractiveness, synergy and commercial criteria.
  • Screened a broad long-list of potential companies and advanced a shortlist toward executive evaluation and Board Investment Memo preparation.
  • Prepared business cases, opportunity assessments and market-entry hypotheses for new business lines and potential investments.

Business outcome

  • Active initiativeA repeatable screening process that feeds board-level investment decisions.

Lessons learned

Say no early and cheaply, so that yes can be thorough.

Next case study: Standardizing how new products reach the market

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