Senior Director, Corporate Development

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future.

Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners.

We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions.

We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

The Senior Director is a leader in the team with wide and deep knowledge about the insurance and asset management markets who can lead and add value immediately to a wide range of new opportunities including M&As and partnerships.

Building and strengthening our core propositions with larger scale benefits/better capabilities

Traditional partnerships (e.g. banks) – both acquiring new ones and optimizing the relationships of existing ones

Extending our propositions into adjacent areas to support further participation (new products, countries, partnership models, ecosystems)

Innovative areas to form partnerships (e.g. digital banks, non-banks) to create value

Both private (e.g. M&As) and public (e.g. IPO) transactions

Adjusting our portfolio to increase diversity and earnings quality

Substantial value potential with the partnerships or M&A transactions worth multiple billions in value, the success of which will have a good impact on our share price.

Leading significant inorganic transactions, capital market transactions and shareholder investments projects

Developing inorganic strategy complementing the overall corporate strategy

Constructing the inorganic pipeline; soliciting and assessing potential targets covering both company M&As and major partnership opportunities

Support strategy pillar and enabler development with inorganic ideas, and execution as required

Develop innovative ideas for constructing deals and forming partnerships to support the overall strategic agenda

Build, lead and grow a strong team of corporate development practitioners

Job Requirements:

Identify and source corporate development ideas and opportunities.

Highlight potential partnership and inorganic targets and coordinate an effective engagement program.

Lead and manage high quality transaction (M&A – buy/sell, partnership, public or private markets) processes.

Lead engagement with SBGs, pillar leads and LBU leaders to develop and articular our strategic growth agenda.

Build and maintain relationships with key external advisors and networks.

Coordinate, lead and manage advisers for Group defense activities.

Be part of leadership team to build/develop capability and capacity in support of Group’s and Finance’s objectives.

Deep experience and track record in leading M&As and major partnership agreements and structures across a large and complex set of deal issues of strategic, financial, legal, risk, tax, regulatory and political areas.

Wide and deep knowledge of the insurance and asset management markets, profit pools, business drivers.

Sound knowledge of the financial drivers and risks of our business, including the specific issues/opportunities/challenges of our wide portfolio of countries and businesses.

Conduct/lead high quality analytical assessment of opportunities to advise/support GEC decision making.

Access to good market intelligence, be “plugged” into the insurance and asset management deal networks including the potential pipeline, motivations of our counterparties and what has worked and what has not.

Job Qualifications:

Deep experience and track record in managing M&As and major partnership agreements

Strong commercial acumen and understanding of our business/financial drivers

Sound knowledge of our key insurance and asset management markets Strong experience in managing and working with various advisers including investment bankers, accounting/tax firms, actuarial firms and legal firms

Wide set of knowledge of the deal issues, and experience of leading/covering strategic/financial assessment, legal, regulatory, tax, operations/tech, political areas leverage other expert help/advisers as needed

Experience in building and leading a high performing team will be an advantage.