Merger & Acquisitions Development Manager
The Role Outline: The Executive Brief As our Merger & Acquisitions Development Manager, you are the accelerant to our expansion strategy. You will be the critical commercial partner to our M&A Director, hunting down top-tier acquisition and Hotel Management Agreement (HMA) opportunities to rapidly grow the Village portfolio.
Before we commit a single pound of capital, you will lead your own financial underwriting, build investment cases, and run the complex commercial modelling to ensure every opportunity you present is highly robust, heavily researched, and primed for board approval.
Why Village? At Village, we do hospitality a little differently. We are all about personality, genuine connections, and creating truly unique hotel environments including lively spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, and play.
We are entering an incredibly exciting period of commercial expansion, specifically focusing on the HMA space and driving capex deployment through Technical Services Agreements (TSAs) for third-party owners. If you are an analytical powerhouse with serious commercial grit who wants to actively hunt and shape our next big deals, we will give you the platform to drive this strategy. Because it really does take a Village.
How the Village Thrives We live our culture through three simple commitments:
We Can & We Do: We show up to make a genuine difference and do fantastic work every day, with purpose.
We Will: Treat each other with respect and dignity. No ego, no drama. We try our best and look out for each other.
We Care: We care about our impact on guests, the community, and each other.
Your Remit: What You Will Actually Be Doing We do not just need a spreadsheet cruncher; we need a proactive deal origination expert. We trust you to handle:
The Origination & Pipeline: Getting out there. You will actively hunt and originate hotel development, acquisition, conversion, and HMA opportunities. You will develop key relationships with market participants, map out target markets, and constantly monitor competitor activity to keep our pipeline completely full.
The Underwriting Engine: Crunching the numbers that matter. You will maintain incredibly detailed financial models, analysing ADR, RevPAR, margins, and EBITDA. You will obsess over investment returns (IRR, NPV, yield-on-cost) and run complex sensitivity analyses to map out every downside risk and value driver before we commit.
The Deal Structuring: Shaping the commercials. You will dissect management agreements, JVs, and leases, quantifying the financial impact of base fees, incentives, and key money to directly support our negotiation strategy. You will also collaborate with the Property team to shape robust Technical Services Agreements (TSAs).
The Board Room Bridge: Getting the deal done. You will support the preparation of high-quality investment memoranda and transaction papers, translating complex financial diligence into clear, compelling strategic narratives for the Investment Committee and the Board.
How We Succeed Together We do not micromanage. It takes a Village, so we believe in Ownership & Integrity, giving you the autonomy to take calculated risks, challenge assumptions, and advise the senior leadership team. We champion teamwork, hate corporate jargon, and desperately want you to succeed.
Selling Our Executive Package
The Compensation: A highly competitive basic salary of £75,000 - £95,000 (depending on experience) reflecting the strategic weight and critical importance of this role within our growth strategy.
Health & Wealth: Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance (PMI) to keep you fully covered, alongside an enhanced executive pension scheme and life assurance.
The Lifestyle: Complimentary full leisure club membership for you and a friend (worth £1,500 annually), plus a dedicated well-being programme and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
Hotel Stays & Time Off: Discounted stays from £35 based on two sharing across our 34 properties, plus a Holiday Purchase scheme to ensure you actually take a well-earned break.
Financial & Extras: Access to our Electric Car Salary Sacrifice scheme, flexible financial wellbeing support via Wagestream, High Street discounts, and your birthday off guaranteed.
Food & Drink: 50% discount on Food and Drink purchased at any Village Hotel, whether you are having a working lunch or a weekend dinner.
Ready to Drive Our Expansion? We are looking for a commercial heavyweight with serious analytical rigour and a proven background in M&A, real estate development, or financial modelling, ideally within the hospitality or commercial property sectors. If you know how to originate a brilliant opportunity, run the complex numbers to answer why we should be investing in a growth opportunity , and want to play a massive part in our growth story, we want to hear from you.
Bring your brilliant analytical mind, your drive, and your ambition. Hit apply, tell us why you love the reality of deal origination, and let's see if our energies align.