Westlake · 8 hours ago
Senior Manager, M&A - Westlake Ventures
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expWestlake Corporation is a Fortune 500 global diversified industrial company that manufactures and supplies essential products. They are seeking a Senior Manager for Westlake Ventures to lead corporate and new venture development, focusing on high-potential business areas and overseeing M&A activities, project reviews, and financial modeling.
ChemicalManufacturingMedical
Responsibilities
Strategic Opportunity and Innovation Scouting: Proactively scan markets to identify, evaluate, and pursue high-impact opportunities for investment, M&A, or commercial partnerships. Develop compelling business theses and negotiate deals to successful closure
M&A and Direction Investment/Venture Investment Analysis and Execution: Lead and support due diligence, site visits, and estimation of one-time and growth project costs. Build robust financial models for valuation and growth projections
Project Leadership: Advance projects through key milestones, ensuring they are fully vetted and supported by rigorous background analysis to enable confident decision-making
Venture Pipeline and Portfolio Management: Set the strategic direction for new ventures, scope and ideate pipeline projects, and guide the development of new business strategies aligned with Westlake’s corporate goals. Manage multiple initiatives from concept to implementation
Stakeholder Engagement: Build and nurture relationships with startups, venture firms, and external partners to strengthen Westlake’s innovative ecosystem
Additional Responsibilities: Provide analytical support for surveys, benchmarking, banking, legal actions, and other corporate needs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in technical degree (engineering, science), business, or accounting
Typically requires 8-10 years of work experience in Corporate Development, Venture Capital, Private Equity, or Investment Banking, with transaction and negotiations experience
Business and technical application knowledge required
Strong M&A, project management, or market and product development experience, fluency with structuring, investment analysis, and finance terms
Candidate should have a working knowledge of medium to large company dynamics and be able to drive results well with others that do not directly report to them
Skill set should include ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams in support of business development, and related due diligence activities as required by projects being developed
Preferred
MBA preferred
Strongly prefer candidate has prior working experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or technology company and/or the investment sector
Company
Westlake
Westlake is a manufacturer and supplier of petrochemicals, polymers and building products. It is a sub-organization of Westlake Chemical Partners.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (7)
2024 (6)
2023 (11)
2022 (9)
2021 (9)
2020 (8)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.2B2025-11-04Post Ipo Debt· $1.2B
2017-01-07Post Ipo Equity
2004-08-11IPO
Leadership Team
Albert Chao
CEO
Jean-Marc Gilson
President and CEO
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