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Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a senior executive to lead Dow Jones’ M&A strategy. The SVP, M&A will serve as the primary driver of inorganic growth across the enterprise, identifying and executing acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions that accelerate Dow Jones’ long-term strategic priorities.\nThe SVP, M&A will own the end-to-end transaction lifecycle from sourcing and evaluation through negotiation, diligence, close, and integration. The role requires a highly strategic and commercially minded leader who can operate effectively across complex markets, build trusted relationships externally and internally, and drive disciplined execution with measurable business impact.\nThe ideal candidate is a forward thinking corporate development executive with deep transaction expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to translate strategic opportunities into scalable growth outcomes.\nYou Will:\nLead Dow Jones enterprise M&A strategy and execution, aligning inorganic growth initiatives to the company’s strategic priorities.\nOwn and manage the enterprise deal pipeline, proactively identifying acquisition, investment, and partnership opportunities that strengthen Dow Jones’ market position and capabilities.\nServe as a strategic advisor to the CEO, CFO, and business leaders on growth opportunities, market dynamics, competitive positioning, and portfolio strategy.\nDevelop a disciplined operating framework for evaluating opportunities, prioritizing investments, and ensuring alignment between strategic rationale and financial outcomes.\nLead all phases of transactions, including opportunity sourcing and evaluation, deal structuring and negotiation, due diligence, governance, execution, and close\nEvaluate business models, competitive positioning, customer value propositions, revenue quality, and operational performance to inform investment decisions and transaction strategy.\nStructure and negotiate transactions that align strategic objectives with financial discipline and long-term value creation.\nEstablish clear success metrics and accountability frameworks to measure transaction performance, strategic impact, and value realization post-close.\nDefine integration strategies early in the transaction lifecycle to ensure alignment between the deal thesis, operating model, strategic objectives, and long-term value creation goals.\nPartner with business and functional leaders to lead post-acquisition integration planning and execution across operational, commercial, technology, and organizational workstreams.\nEstablish clear governance structures, success metrics, and accountability frameworks to measure transaction performance, synergy realization, and overall business impact.\nDevelop and maintain strong relationships across the M&A and investment ecosystem, including founders, CEOs, private equity and venture capital firms, investment banks, strategic partners, and industry advisors.\nBuild a robust external network to generate proprietary deal flow, surface emerging market opportunities, and strengthen Dow Jones’ position within the broader media, technology, data, and AI landscape.\nEngage regularly with market participants, investors, and operators to identify opportunities for acquisitions, partnerships, strategic investments, and capability expansion.\nPartner with senior leadership to assess market shifts, disruptive technologies, and competitive threats that may impact long-term portfolio strategy and growth objectives.\nRepresent Dow Jones externally in strategic discussions, industry conferences, investor meetings, and partner engagements.\nBuild strong partnerships across Finance, Strategy, Product, Technology, Legal, Editorial, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment and execution excellence.\nInfluence senior stakeholders across a complex, matrixed organization to drive alignment on priorities, investment decisions, and integration outcomes.\nFoster a culture of analytical rigor, strategic thinking, collaboration, and accountability.\nYou Have:\n15+ years of experience leading complex M&A transactions and strategic growth initiatives as a senior corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or strategic finance executive.\nDemonstrated success executing acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions-ideally within information services, though experience in media, technology, SaaS, data, or adjacent industries is also highly valued. \nStrong financial and strategic acumen, including expertise in valuation, financial modeling, deal structuring, investment analysis, and synergy assessment. \nProven ability to lead complex negotiations and influence senior executives and external stakeholders\nExperience managing cross-functional diligence and integration efforts across global organizations\nDeep understanding of technology, data, AI, and digital business models\nStrong executive presence with the ability to operate effectively with CEOs, Boards, investors, and business leaders\nProven ability to balance strategic vision with operational discipline and execution rigor\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets\nReasonable Accommodation\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application or participating in an interview due to a disability, email us at . Please put \"Reasonable Accommodation\" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.Please refer to the privacy notice at the bottom of this page for submitting any data access, deletion, or other data subject rights requests, where permitted under your local laws and regulations.\nBusiness Area:\nDow Jones - FinanceJob Category:\nFinanceUnion Status:\nNon-Union roleBase Pay Range: $300,000 - $430,000We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. 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