M&A / PMI Lead

Newmo is a startup working on sustainable regional transportation and expanding its taxi business platform across Japan through business succession and M&A. This position leads the full M&A process for existing taxi operators, from sourcing through post-merger integration.

Responsibilities include planning and executing sourcing strategies, building networks with key people, developing relationships with financial institutions and intermediary firms, and planning referral and public-relations initiatives. The role also drives due diligence by coordinating accountants, lawyers, social insurance and labor specialists, and other external partners, while involving relevant internal and external stakeholders.

The position covers transaction-structure design, term-sheet preparation and acquisition-condition negotiations. It also designs and advances 100-day PMI, including the integration structure, the 100-day plan and its execution. After acquisitions, the role supports operational standardization and digital transformation using Newmo's systems: newmo点呼 for attendance and roll-call management, unkan for operations management, SHIP for dispatch, and Maido for AI-supported dispatch.

The work requires project coordination across executives, legal, labor, product and field operations teams, with responsibility for progressing the M&A-to-PMI process as a whole. The M&A program is connected to regional transportation infrastructure and to a future autonomous taxi business. The posting states that Newmo has completed acquisitions or business transfers involving Miraito, Sakai Sogo Taxi, Takara Jidosha, six companies in the Keikyu Taxi Group and three companies in the Asahi Jidosha Group, with the listed transactions spanning 2024 to 2026.

The work location is in Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo. During the PMI period, domestic travel of approximately three to five days per week may occur. Remote work is available once per week.