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# Director of Corporate Development at Andercore

- **Company:** Andercore
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/andercore/14fca210-45ae-486c-b5ec-f7efa83b249b

## Job description

## About Andercore

Andercore is the AI-native supplier of industrial materials for energy, infrastructure, and construction in wholesale and beyond. We trade with global suppliers and distribute to European customers on our own account. Our AI runs the full trade and distribution end-to-end: sourcing, quality, pricing, sales, logistics, and embedded financing. For the customer, it feels like buying from their preferred local supplier; for our partners, it is the most convenient and safe way to do business across borders. Behind it, our software and agentic AI do the heavy lifting that used to take an asset-intensive supply chain with four or five intermediaries and weeks of manual coordination. Where we are today:

- Strong triple-digit-million euro turnover
- Seven European markets live
- 80+ people across Berlin (HQ), offices in London, Mumbai, and Shanghai

$40M Series B just closed, $75M raised to date from Atomico, Project A, and Inven Capital, institutional financing from international banks. We are building the world's first and last industrial-grade AI operating system for materials, redefining how global trade works in one of the largest and most essential industries on earth.

The Opportunity This is not a traditional Corporate Development role. As Director of Corporate Development, you will work directly with the CEO and take responsibility for building Andercore's M&A engine from the ground up. You will help define our roll-up strategy, identify and approach acquisition targets, develop investment cases and execute transactions end-to-end. At the same time, you will work closely with our technology and operating teams to answer the question at the heart of our strategy:

How can we acquire traditional industrial businesses and use technology and AI to make them dramatically better? This means thinking beyond financial engineering and traditional buy-and-build. You will help identify where AI, automation, centralized procurement, data, pricing, sales productivity, working-capital optimization and shared infrastructure can fundamentally improve the economics of acquired businesses. Your mandate is ultimately to build a repeatable acquisition and value-creation machine capable of executing multiple transactions every year.

## What You Will Own

M&A & Roll-Up Strategy

- Take Andercore's acquisition and consolidation strategy across Europe to the next level.
- Identify attractive verticals, geographies and acquisition archetypes.
- Build market maps and identify highly fragmented markets suitable for consolidation.
- Develop the financial and strategic logic behind our roll-up thesis.
- Determine where Andercore's technology and AI capabilities can create disproportionate value after acquisition.
- Build a multi-year acquisition roadmap together with the CEO and Board.

Proprietary Deal Origination

- Build and continuously develop a proprietary pipeline of acquisition opportunities.
- Identify and directly approach founders and owners of attractive businesses.
- Build trusted relationships with entrepreneurs, often long before they consider selling.
- Develop systematic, data-driven sourcing approaches.
- Build relationships with investment banks, M&A boutiques, advisers and other intermediaries.

We expect proprietary sourcing to become a core competitive advantage of Andercore's M&A strategy.

Deal Execution Own transactions from first conversation through closing:

- Initial assessment and strategic fit
- Financial analysis and valuation
- Investment cases
- Deal structuring
- LOIs
- Negotiation
- Commercial, financial, tax and legal due diligence
- Financing
- Board and shareholder materials
- Signing and closing

You will coordinate internal stakeholders and external advisers while remaining personally accountable for moving transactions forward.

AI-Driven Value Creation Our ambition is not simply to acquire businesses. It is to transform them. Together with Andercore's technology and operating teams, you will identify opportunities to apply AI, automation and our central platform across areas such as:

- Sales productivity and customer intelligence
- Pricing and margin optimization
- Procurement
- Supplier management
- Customer service
- Finance and administration
- Working capital
- Logistics and fulfilment
- Data and reporting

You will incorporate these opportunities into acquisition theses and quantify their potential impact before we invest.

Integration & Portfolio Value Creation

- Develop Day-1 and 100-day plans before closing.
- Translate investment theses into measurable operational initiatives.
- Define integration priorities together with functional leaders.
- Track acquisition performance against the original investment case.
- Identify additional opportunities for technology deployment, synergies and operational improvement.

The objective is not necessarily to integrate everything immediately. It is to determine what should be centralized, what should remain entrepreneurial and where Andercore's platform creates the greatest advantage.

Build the M&A Machine You will build the infrastructure required to turn acquisitions into a repeatable capability using the latest AI stack:

- M&A playbook
- Target database and pipeline
- Valuation frameworks
- Investment committee processes
- Due diligence standards
- Deal documentation
- Integration playbooks
- Portfolio reporting
- Value-creation tracking

As our acquisition pace increases, you will build and lead a dedicated Corporate Development team.

## What We're Looking For

We are looking for an exceptional investor and operator. The strongest candidates will likely come from:

- Leading Private Equity funds, particularly buy-and-build or mid-market investing
- Top-tier Investment Banking / M&A
- Corporate Development at a highly acquisitive company
- A combination of Investment Banking and Private Equity

You will likely bring 5–10 years of relevant experience, including meaningful exposure to transactions. Experience in industrial distribution, business services, industrial technology or fragmented-market consolidation is particularly valuable. You combine:

- Exceptional financial and analytical capabilities
- Strong commercial judgment
- Deep understanding of M&A
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Entrepreneurial instinct
- High ownership and execution intensity
- Ability to build relationships with entrepreneurs and business owners
- Intellectual curiosity around AI and technology

You do not need to be an AI engineer. But you should be deeply interested in understanding how AI changes businesses, cost structures and competitive advantages — and how those changes can create entirely new acquisition strategies. German and English fluency are highly preferred.

## Who You Are

- You think like an investor but operate like an entrepreneur.
- You enjoy understanding businesses quickly and identifying what makes them valuable.
- You are comfortable calling a founder yourself, building the model yourself, negotiating an LOI and presenting the investment case to the Board.
- You don't need an established process around you. You build the process.
- You combine analytical rigor with speed and pragmatism.
- And you are excited by the opportunity to help answer one of the most interesting questions emerging in private equity and technology today:

What happens when you combine the traditional power of a roll-up with the transformational potential of AI?

What Success Looks Like Within your first 12 months, you will have:

- Established Andercore's M&A and roll-up strategy.
- Built a substantial proprietary acquisition pipeline.
- Created a repeatable sourcing and transaction process.
- Built Andercore's M&A playbook.
- Developed a clear framework for AI and technology-driven value creation.
- Led multiple transactions from initial contact through advanced negotiations.
- Closed our first acquisitions.
- Established the foundations for executing multiple acquisitions every year.

Over time, you will build Andercore's Corporate Development organization and play a central role in building a new category of European industrial company.

## Why Andercore

- This is an opportunity to build rather than inherit.
- You will work directly with Andercore's founders, Board and investors and have significant responsibility from day one.
- You will combine private equity, entrepreneurship, technology and AI in one role.
- And rather than advising companies or investing from the outside, you will help build the platform itself.

Our ambition is significant: to create Europe's leading AI-native industrial distribution platform through a combination of organic growth, acquisitions and technology-driven transformation.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic. We believe that diversity drives innovation, creativity, and collective strength.

## About Andercore

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Andercore is an AI-driven trade platform that unifies sourcing, pricing, logistics, and financing for industrial supply in infrastructure, energy, and construction materials.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Philipp Andernach and Elsa Cordonnier

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Industrial supply chain, wholesale trade, energy and infrastructure materials, construction materials.
- **Target customers**: B2B – industrial buyers (project sites, warehouses, manufacturers) and suppliers across Europe, MENA, and Asia.
- **Mission**: “Enable faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective trade for industrial buyers and suppliers” [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us).

## Products & Services
- **AI-Powered Trade Platform**: A software system that automates quoting, order execution, quality assurance, logistics coordination, and financing. Buyers can submit requests via phone, email, WhatsApp, or app and receive binding quotes within minutes. [andercore.com](http://www.andercore.com/)
- **Embedded Financing**: Integrated credit lines, multi-currency payments, and secure settlement, underwritten by institutional partners including Commerzbank and KfW. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs)
- **End-to-End Logistics**: Manages transport from origin to last‑mile delivery, with real‑time tracking, route optimisation, and customs documentation. Uses a network of third‑party logistics providers. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs)
- **Quality & Compliance**: Certifications managed with partners such as TÜV Rheinland, Bureau Veritas, and SGS. Ensures ESG compliance and regulatory requirements across the supply chain. [andercore.com](http://www.andercore.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $75 million raised to date (including a $40 million Series B announced February 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atomico, Project A, Inven Capital, Target Global; institutional financing from Commerzbank and KfW. [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Serves over 4,500 buyers and works with more than 2,000 suppliers.
  - Operates across seven European markets in infrastructure, energy, and construction.
  - Team of ~80 employees with offices in Berlin, India, and China.
  - Executed a 56 MW solar project on the A3 motorway near Cologne with over 100 individual deliveries. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **End‑to‑end unification**: Combines sourcing, pricing, logistics, and financing into a single AI‑orchestrated flow, eliminating fragmented manual processes.
- **Fifth‑generation trading heritage**: Founders come from the A.W. Andernach Group (established 1888), providing deep domain expertise in physical trade and supply chains. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs)
- **Embedded financing**: Buyers can obtain credit lines directly within the ordering process without separate bank applications, reducing working‑capital pressure.
- **Real‑time AI pricing & forecasting**: Uses platform data and logistics signals to provide instant quotes and predict availability and lead times.
- **Global reach with local execution**: Operates across Europe, MENA, and Asia with local sales teams (French, Italian, German, English) and regional 3PL hubs.

## Strategic Focus
- **European expansion**: The Series B funding is specifically aimed at accelerating growth across European markets. [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us)
- **AI‑driven automation**: Continuously scaling AI systems to handle quoting, quality assurance, order execution, and logistics autonomously.
- **Category & supplier breadth**: Growing the live catalogue of 4,000+ SKUs and expanding the supplier network across energy, infrastructure, and industrial goods.

## Why Work Here
- **In‑office culture**: Andercore operates a five‑day‑per‑week in‑office policy at its Berlin headquarters, deliberately chosen to foster a focused, team‑oriented environment. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs)
- **English working language**: The internal language is English; German is not required. Sales teams serve local markets in native languages.
- **Early responsibility**: A small team (~80 people) with high commercial volume. Junior hires get direct P&L exposure in commercial roles; engineers work on a live AI platform handling thousands of monthly transactions. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs)
- **International team**: Colleagues from multiple nationalities, with offices in Berlin, India, and China.
- **Impact‑driven work**: The platform directly affects real‑world infrastructure and energy projects, offering a tangible sense of purpose.

## Sources
1. [andercore.com](http://www.andercore.com/) – Homepage and platform description
2. [andercore.com/about-us](https://www.andercore.com/about-us) – Company background, mission, investors, timeline
3. [andercore.com/faqs](https://www.andercore.com/faqs) – Detailed FAQs on products, team, office policy, funding
4. [andercore.com/en/career](https://andercore.com/en/career/) – Careers page, application instructions
5. [linkedin.com/company/andercore-com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/andercore-com) – LinkedIn profile

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