Location: North West
Employment type: Full Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
We’re looking for a driven and commercially focused Corporate Development Manager to help deliver Ipsum’s ambitious growth strategy. Working closely with the Corporate Development Director, CFO and senior leadership team, you’ll identify and originate acquisition opportunities across the UK and Ireland (and, in the future, possibly international markets) playing a key role in developing our Buy & Build growth strategy.
This is a high-impact role with significant exposure to senior Group stakeholders and our financial investors, IK Partners. As Ipsum prepares for a potential exit, you'll help maximise business value, support strategic growth initiatives and contribute to ensuring the business is positioned for long-term success.
You’re a commercially minded corporate development professional with a strong track record of originating acquisition opportunities and building relationships with founders, vendors and advisers. Working closely with senior stakeholders and the Executive Leadership Team, you’ll help identify and evaluate strategic opportunities while supporting wider value creation and exit activities. You will bring strong financial and commercial acumen, ideally as a qualified accountant or from an investment banking, private equity or corporate development background.
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
