Corporate Development Manager Jobs in Illinois
Corporate Development Manager jobs in Illinois are concentrated in mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and growth equity work, with demand running from analyst-level rotational roles through vice president and director positions. Chicago anchors the market, but meaningful hiring also occurs in Deerfield and Schaumburg, where established anchors like Baxter International, Motorola Solutions, and United Airlines maintain corporate development functions. The most consistently sought specialties are M&A execution, buy-side deal sourcing, and post-merger integration. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Description
Employer Brand Relationship
At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW.
Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition for Corporate Functions is responsible for leading and developing a high-performing team of recruiters while personally managing full-cycle recruitment for corporate function roles. This individual will partner closely with senior leaders and HR stakeholders to design and execute talent strategies that attract, asses, and hire top talent across disciplines such as Finance, HR, Legal, Strategy and Enterprise Business Operations. The Senior Manager balances hands-on recruitment with people leadership, ensuring recruiting excellence, process efficiency, and a strong candidate experience aligned with CDW’s values and business objectives.
This position is based in Chicago, Illinois and requires two days per week onsite at one of CDW’s Chicago locations.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with HR Business Partners and senior business leaders to understand current and future talent needs across corporate functions, translating workforce plans into effective recruiting strategies.
- Provide consultative guidance to stakeholders on market conditions, talent availability, role scoping, and competitive hiring practices.
- Align recruiting priorities and capacity to business objectives, ensuring resources are deployed effectively across requisitions and critical initiatives.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of talent acquisition strategy, including workforce segmentation, role prioritization, and proactive talent pipelining.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of three recruiters, fostering high performance, accountability, and engagement.
- Set clear expectations, performance goals, and development plans aligned with functional and organizational objectives.
- Provide ongoing coaching on recruiting best practices, stakeholder management, candidate assessment, and inclusive hiring behaviors.
- Monitor team workload, quality of hire, and service levels, reallocating resources as needed to meet changing business demands.
- Build bench strength within the recruiting team through mentoring, succession planning, and capability development.
- Personally manage full-cycle recruitment for senior-level and/or complex roles within corporate/backbone functions, including intake, sourcing, assessment, offer negotiation, and close. Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, ensuring a disciplined and consistent hiring process while maintaining flexibility for business needs.
- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies using multiple channels, including direct sourcing, referrals, and talent networks.
- Ensure a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience from initial engagement through onboarding.
- Apply strong assessment judgment to evaluate candidates against role requirements, leadership competencies, and cultural alignment.
- Build strong, credible relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, serving as a subject-matter expert in talent acquisition.
- Facilitate effective hiring manager alignment on role requirements, timelines, and decision-making processes.
- Navigate competing priorities and complex stakeholder dynamics with professionalism and influence.
- Ensure recruiting processes are efficient, compliant, and consistently applied across the team.
- Leverage data and metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, quality of hire, candidate experience, diversity outcomes) to drive informed decisions and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance tools, and improve scalability while maintaining quality.
- Hold the team accountable for building diverse candidate slates and mitigating bias in assessment and selection.
- Represent the organization effectively in the external talent market, articulating the employer value proposition for corporate function roles.
What we expect of you
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- 7 years experience in full lifecycle recruiting
- 5 years team leadership experience
- Ability to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with customers, coworkers, management and executives
- Eager to take on new tasks/responsibilities and passion for customer experience, operational excellence and continuous development
- Demonstrated intellectual curiosity that seeks to question the status quo and look for ways to advance business objectives
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities/projects, meet deadlines, facilitate change and delegate responsibilities
- Through knowledge of recruiting practices including, but not limited to, employment policies and practices, legal compliance, sourcing solutions, interviewing and selection techniques
- Experience with CRM tools; such as, Phenom and Eightfold and applicant tracking systems; such as, Workday
Pay range: $140,000-$162,400 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 15% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
About CDW
We make technology work so people can do great things.
CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
As a leader, you will champion and be accountable for our vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization. We expect leaders to model curiosity, encourage responsible AI adoption, and foster a culture of continuous learning. You don’t need deep technical expertise, but you should be comfortable exploring how AI can enhance strategy, decision-making, and team performance. Your role includes guiding others in building confidence and capability with AI tools and practices, while promoting openness to experimentation and shared learning.Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
About Us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.
As a full‑stack, full‑lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.
Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
Description
Employer Brand Relationship
At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW.
Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition for Corporate Functions is responsible for leading and developing a high-performing team of recruiters while personally managing full-cycle recruitment for corporate function roles. This individual will partner closely with senior leaders and HR stakeholders to design and execute talent strategies that attract, asses, and hire top talent across disciplines such as Finance, HR, Legal, Strategy and Enterprise Business Operations. The Senior Manager balances hands-on recruitment with people leadership, ensuring recruiting excellence, process efficiency, and a strong candidate experience aligned with CDW’s values and business objectives.
This position is based in Chicago, Illinois and requires two days per week onsite at one of CDW’s Chicago locations.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with HR Business Partners and senior business leaders to understand current and future talent needs across corporate functions, translating workforce plans into effective recruiting strategies.
- Provide consultative guidance to stakeholders on market conditions, talent availability, role scoping, and competitive hiring practices.
- Align recruiting priorities and capacity to business objectives, ensuring resources are deployed effectively across requisitions and critical initiatives.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of talent acquisition strategy, including workforce segmentation, role prioritization, and proactive talent pipelining.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of three recruiters, fostering high performance, accountability, and engagement.
- Set clear expectations, performance goals, and development plans aligned with functional and organizational objectives.
- Provide ongoing coaching on recruiting best practices, stakeholder management, candidate assessment, and inclusive hiring behaviors.
- Monitor team workload, quality of hire, and service levels, reallocating resources as needed to meet changing business demands.
- Build bench strength within the recruiting team through mentoring, succession planning, and capability development.
- Personally manage full-cycle recruitment for senior-level and/or complex roles within corporate/backbone functions, including intake, sourcing, assessment, offer negotiation, and close. Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, ensuring a disciplined and consistent hiring process while maintaining flexibility for business needs.
- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies using multiple channels, including direct sourcing, referrals, and talent networks.
- Ensure a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience from initial engagement through onboarding.
- Apply strong assessment judgment to evaluate candidates against role requirements, leadership competencies, and cultural alignment.
- Build strong, credible relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, serving as a subject-matter expert in talent acquisition.
- Facilitate effective hiring manager alignment on role requirements, timelines, and decision-making processes.
- Navigate competing priorities and complex stakeholder dynamics with professionalism and influence.
- Ensure recruiting processes are efficient, compliant, and consistently applied across the team.
- Leverage data and metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, quality of hire, candidate experience, diversity outcomes) to drive informed decisions and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance tools, and improve scalability while maintaining quality.
- Hold the team accountable for building diverse candidate slates and mitigating bias in assessment and selection.
- Represent the organization effectively in the external talent market, articulating the employer value proposition for corporate function roles.
What we expect of you
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- 7 years experience in full lifecycle recruiting
- 5 years team leadership experience
- Ability to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with customers, coworkers, management and executives
- Eager to take on new tasks/responsibilities and passion for customer experience, operational excellence and continuous development
- Demonstrated intellectual curiosity that seeks to question the status quo and look for ways to advance business objectives
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities/projects, meet deadlines, facilitate change and delegate responsibilities
- Through knowledge of recruiting practices including, but not limited to, employment policies and practices, legal compliance, sourcing solutions, interviewing and selection techniques
- Experience with CRM tools; such as, Phenom and Eightfold and applicant tracking systems; such as, Workday
Pay range: $140,000-$162,400 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 15% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
About CDW
We make technology work so people can do great things.
CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
As a leader, you will champion and be accountable for our vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization. We expect leaders to model curiosity, encourage responsible AI adoption, and foster a culture of continuous learning. You don’t need deep technical expertise, but you should be comfortable exploring how AI can enhance strategy, decision-making, and team performance. Your role includes guiding others in building confidence and capability with AI tools and practices, while promoting openness to experimentation and shared learning.Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
About Us
CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.
As a full‑stack, full‑lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.
Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.
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What Illinois Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in corporate development manager jobs across Illinois.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or accounting from an accredited institution required
- Three or more years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting
- Demonstrated ability to build financial models and conduct valuation analyses independently
- Experience leading due diligence processes across legal, financial, and operational workstreams
- Strong communication skills to present deal recommendations to C-suite and board audiences
- Proficiency with Excel-based modeling and familiarity with data room and CRM platforms
Corporate Development Manager Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a corporate development manager in Illinois?
Most corporate development managers in Illinois enter the role after several years in investment banking, private equity, or Big Four advisory work. Illinois employers typically expect a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or business, with an MBA viewed favorably for director-track roles. There is no state-issued license required in Illinois, but a CFA charter or relevant financial certifications strengthen candidacy significantly at competitive Chicago-area firms.
Which companies hire corporate development managers in Illinois?
Employers hiring corporate development managers in Illinois right now include CDW, Matter, and Wipfli, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Illinois's concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters in the Chicago metro means many of these openings sit inside large, established corporate development teams rather than early-stage or startup environments.
Which Illinois cities have the most corporate development manager jobs?
The cities with the most corporate development manager openings in Illinois are Chicago and Sauget. Chicago drives the largest share because of its density of Fortune 500 headquarters, major financial institutions, and private equity firms, while suburban markets like Deerfield and Downers Grove generate openings tied to large manufacturing and healthcare conglomerates with active acquisition programs.
Are there remote corporate development manager jobs in Illinois?
Yes, and more than many finance roles, since the analytical and deal-support work lends itself to distributed teams. About 100% of corporate development manager openings tied to Illinois are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting how many firms have adopted flexible arrangements post-pandemic. Deal execution phases that require on-site management presence tend to pull fully remote candidates back into hybrid schedules.
How can I get hired as a corporate development manager in Illinois with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a corporate development rotational or business development analyst program at a large Illinois employer. Companies like Abbott Laboratories, Caterpillar, and Exelon have historically run structured rotational programs that expose early-career candidates to M&A support and strategic analysis. Lateral moves from financial planning and analysis, transaction advisory, or corporate strategy roles are also common entry points that Illinois hiring managers actively consider.
Where can I find and apply to corporate development manager jobs in Illinois?
You can find and apply to corporate development manager jobs in Illinois on Migrate Mate, which lists current Illinois openings across Chicago, the suburbs, and downstate markets. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly to each listing.
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