Manager, M&A and Commercial Strategy, Mammoth Labs

Full Time
New York, NY, USA
3 hours ago

About Harry’s

Harry’s is a men’s grooming brand that offers high quality shave, body, hair, and skin care products at an exceptional value. Launched in 2013, Harry’s redefined the shaving experience and helped pioneer the earliest era of direct to consumer in the process. Since then, the brand has become the #2 shave brand globally and expanded to offer products for every step in its customer’s routine. Harry’s is also on a mission to ensure guys have access to quality mental health care. To date, the brand has helped connect over 2 million men to quality mental health resources.

Harry’s is part of Mammoth Brands, the modern CPG company behind category-leading brands Harry’s, Flamingo, Lume, and Mando. Driven by a mission to “Create Things People Like More,”  the company is creating a new model—and home—for brands, founders, and talent looking to solve unmet needs, improve peoples’ lives and ultimately change the status quo. Even as we grow, we take extra care to maintain the small, scrappy, entrepreneurial culture that helped to get us where we are today: a company that people like more, that better serves its customers, employees, and community. Mammoth Brands is committed to making a positive impact and donated over $20 million through our network of nonprofit partners to date. 

About the Role

Our vision at Mammoth Brands is to build a portfolio of category-leading CPG brands, and the Labs team is responsible for M&A and other inorganic growth initiatives under that vision. Our goal is to acquire 1-2 highly disruptive CPG brands within the Everyday Care & Wellness space each year based on the investment opportunities you will help identify and validate. 

As the Manager of M&A and Commercial Strategy, you will work collaboratively with the rest of the Labs team to identify, evaluate, and pursue exciting investment opportunities in the consumer packaged goods space. In your role, you will be responsible for the commercial and financial diligence of investment opportunities, identifying key questions, shaping analyses, and making data-driven recommendations. You will also help drive proactive sourcing efforts, identifying, reaching out to, and building relationships with founders of emerging CPG brands. You will work alongside experienced investors, entrepreneurs and executives to build and grow the next generation of leading CPG brands, powered by the experience and resources of Mammoth Brands.

Beyond the opportunity to work with great people, this role provides a unique opportunity to continue to shape the dynamic investment strategy of Mammoth Brands, including working closely with senior leadership to define investment philosophy, criteria, and process.

What You Will Accomplish

  • Perform commercial and financial diligence on new investment opportunities, including market sizing, competitive analysis, and business plan development
  • Build robust financial models and investment returns analyses, including inputs such as CAC, LTV, retention, pricing, and costs. Validate key model assumptions via primary and secondary research, including smartly leveraging cross-functional expertise across the Mammoth Brands organization
  • Perform deep-dive analysis of CPG categories, synthesizing large pools of data to develop a point of view on relevant trends and dynamics, as well as opportunities for category disruption
  • Drive proactive sourcing activities by identifying and building relationships with founders, investors, and bankers
  • Develop high quality presentations for the Mammoth Brands leadership team to review and assess M&A opportunities
  • Successfully work in parallel across multiple work streams

This Should Describe You

  • 3-5 years of professional experience in a highly analytical role (e.g., private equity, growth investing, investment banking, corporate development); experience working with high growth consumer businesses is a plus
  • Experience with financial modeling and quantitative analysis: You should feel very comfortable operating in Excel and building three-statement financial models with flexible assumptions
  • Highly analytical: Able to collect and analyze large sets of data and synthesize into themes, insights, and “so what’s”. You can handle ambiguity and can extrapolate and synthesize your way to insightful recommendations even when data is far from perfect
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, often changing, and highly collaborative environment. You understand that most projects will not be greenlit and you are able to pivot quickly between workstreams
  • Passionate about Consumer: Excited by the opportunity to build and acquire new, highly disruptive businesses at Mammoth Brands that better serve consumer needs and preferences
  • Extremely reliable: Always counted on to be 100% reliable. You always go above and beyond expectations and deliver error-free work in a timely fashion

Here's who you'll work with: 

  • Reporting to the Director, M&A and Commercial Strategy, Mammoth Labs
  • Advised closely by the Chief Growth Officer of Mammoth Brands
  • You will work on the Mammoth Labs team, a small team that drives Mammoth’s new brand investment strategy by identifying market opportunities and investing in leading next generation CPG brands

Benefits and perks

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401k match
  • Equity in Mammoth Brands 
  • Flexible time off and working hours
  • Wellness and L&D stipends
  • 4 weeks sabbatical after 5 years, 6 weeks after 10 years, and 8 weeks after 15 years 
  • 20 fully paid weeks off for parents who give birth, or 16 fully paid weeks off for all other paths to parenthood
  • Fun IRL and virtual events including happy hours, team building events, and parties on our rooftop
  • Free products from all of our brands

We can’t quantify all of the intangible things we think you’ll love about working at Mammoth Brands, like the exciting challenges we tackle, the smart and humble team you’ll get to work with, and our supportive and inclusive culture. That said, our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of our total rewards package, which also includes a comprehensive set of benefits and our equity program. The base salary hiring range for this position is $140,000-$160,000, but the final compensation offer will ultimately be based on the candidate’s location, skill level and experience.  

Mammoth Brands is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do great work together.

Mammoth Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. We recruit, hire and promote into all job levels the most qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), parental status, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, marital, family or partnership status, political affiliation or activities, military service, domestic violence victim status, arrest/conviction record, sexual or reproductive health decisions, caregiver status, credit history immigration status, unemployment status, traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles or any other status protected under applicable federal, state and local laws. Mammoth Brands' commitment to providing equal employment opportunities extends to all aspects of employment, including job assignment, compensation, discipline and access to benefits and training.

We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.