Head of M&A

This full-time role leads the company’s inorganic growth strategy across its field-services SaaS and quotation-platform businesses. The employer develops and operates MitsMore, ProOne, and Hatchu, and is building a repeatable roll-up model to address succession needs in field-service industries.

The Head of M&A will set and execute the M&A and roll-up strategy, including decision-making from sourcing through closing and chairing the investment committee. The role will establish and operate investment discipline by defining and enforcing hurdle rates, acquisition criteria, and exit criteria. Responsibilities also include designing acquisition structures and deal economics, and setting acquisition-finance policy in coordination with the CFO and the Administration Division.

The position has overall responsibility for post-merger integration, group management, and value creation at acquired companies. It includes managing internal and external stakeholders and the board of directors, as well as change management associated with group integration. Examples given in the posting include improving an acquired company’s profit margin by supplying projects through the quotation platform and optimizing construction operations, and establishing a disciplined decision-making process through the investment committee.

Required qualifications include leading multiple M&A transactions from sourcing through closing in investment banking, financial advisory, private equity, or as the M&A head of an operating company. Candidates must have experience designing and operating investment discipline and governance, including investment criteria, return hurdles, and decision-making processes. An understanding of corporate finance sufficient to design acquisition structures and acquisition financing is required, as is the ability to negotiate and build agreement with business owners, investors, board members, and other demanding stakeholders. Experience managing teams covering sourcing, investment execution, and PMI is also required.

Preferred experience includes roll-ups or serial acquisitions, acquisition-finance structuring such as LBOs and SPC formation, and leading PMI or post-acquisition management integration. Knowledge of construction, real estate, electrical work, or equipment-construction industries, and experience at a strategy consulting firm or private equity firm, are welcomed.

The role works directly under management and coordinates with the CFO, the Head of the Administration Division, and the head of the quotation platform. The position is based at the company headquarters in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. It is a regular full-time employee role with a flextime system, an 11:00–16:00 core time, and a 60-minute break during working hours. Smoking is prohibited at the workplace.

Annual compensation is listed as JPY 10,000,000–20,000,000, with the final amount determined based on experience, ability, and current compensation. Stock options may also be granted. Benefits and provisions include social insurance, year-end and New Year holidays from December 29 to January 3, paid leave granted upon joining, condolence leave and payments, maternity, childcare, and nursing-care leave, a commuting allowance of up to JPY 50,000 per month, regular health examinations subject to requirements, a company PC, welcome lunches and inter-team dining subsidies, a 20% cashback program on MitsMore usage, a babysitter discount program, an office convenience store, and Cursor for engineers. Annual holidays total 125 days.