Les missions du poste
Under the responsibility of the M&A Director, the M&A Senior Manager will play a crucial role in developing and implementing the Group's acquisition strategy. You will contribute to establishing strategic partnerships and driving inorganic growth within a vibrant, creative ecosystem, and acting as a key advisor to senior executives, entrepreneurs, and shareholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic stakeholder Alignment
Ensure seamless consistency between central Business Line strategies, local operations& opportunities and the Group's global pillars & value creation objectives.
Partner with Business Lines leadership and Country GMs to support the M&A strategy & roadmap, building consensus and ensuring strategic alignment across the organization
Deal strategy, sourcing & qualification:
Drive the deal pipeline by identifying and vetting targets aligned with the Group's strategy, central Business lines, and local units' growth levers
Develop and implement rigorous scoring frameworks, assessing criteria to prioritize acquisition targets
Deal execution:
Execute comprehensive financial analyses. You bring a "hands-on" approach to our deal flow, showcasing a talent for "financial archaeology", extracting value and clarity from raw data to support informed decision-making in a fast-paced, small-cap environment
Coordinate and oversee the conduct of the due diligence process, including business, financial, IP, legal, and tax reviews
Prepare detailed investment memoranda and presentations for internal and external stakeholders, and recommendations to executive leadership
Draft NBOs, Term Sheets, and lead in negotiating the deal structure, governance and legal documentation (e.g. SHA, SPA), with the assistance of the Senior M&A lawyer
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including Business, Legal, Finance and Product) to ensure thorough strategic vision, negotiation, execution of transactions and anticipate integration of the targets in close collaboration with the PMI team
Le profil recherché
Education: Graduate of a top-tier Business or Engineering School.
Experience:
You have at least 9 years of experience in M&A advisory/Investment Banking), Corporate M&A, Transaction Services, or Private Equity
Proven track record of successfully closed transactions (small to large cap)
Hard Skills :
Strong commercial judgement with proven negotiation capability
Able to operate credibly with entrepreneurs, senior executives and investors
Advanced understanding of complex legal and tax deal structure
Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides.
Excellent financial, valuation and strategic analysis skills
Fluent English (both written and spoken); proficiency in a second language is an advantage
Soft Skills :
You thrive in a fast-paced, creative industry (Music/Entertainment). You have a pedagogical mindset, able to translate complex financial stakes into clear, simple concepts for stakeholders and entrepreneurs
Strategic Leadership: Ability to influence and drive decision-making
"Doer" mindset: Proactive, hands-on, and results-oriented.
Critical thinking: Capacity to challenge subject matter experts and stakeholders effectively
Bienvenue chez Believe
Believe is a global artist development company. We empower local artists, labels and publishers to grow their audiences at each stage of their careers with expertise, respect, fairness and transparency.
Operating in 50+ countries, with more than 2,000 employees, Believe offers a full range of services including audience development, publishing, marketing and distribution, with a tailor-made approach to fit any artist, label or publisher.
Believe champions independence and innovation through a unique model that combines local expertise with a global tech platform, delivering exclusive solutions for artists to promote and monetize their music thanks to strategic partnerships with leading global digital service providers.
With a leading portfolio of brands that includes Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, GrooveAttack, Sentric, AllPoints and Byond, Believe artists generated more than 800 billion streams worldwide in 2024 across all genres, and were recognized with more than 70leading industry awards.
Believe is a simplified joint-stock company under French law.
Ready to set the tone with Believe ?
Publiée le 24/04/2026 - Réf : BLV_26_3070
