Senior Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions (life sciences)

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Our Mergers and Acquisitions Practice (M&A) is seeking a Senior Manager to join our growing Healthcare and Life Sciences value creation this dynamic role you will work within our national M&A practice servicing both corporate and private equity clients investing in or operating software services and technology-enabled services businesses across payer provider and Life Sciences domain areas including CDMO/contract manufacturing pharmaceutical manufacturing pharma services oncology radiology/imaging diagnostics and laboratory services.

This team leads projects that deliver West Monroes core value creation and due diligence offerings including platform acquisitions mergers/integrations corporate divestiture/carve-outs sell-side readiness and post-close value creation and execution. Our M&A team includes a variety of seasoned expert and award-winning professionals.

You will be an integral part of our team helping shape our culture and participate in the entrepreneurial process of growing a team with triple digit growth (strategy formulation recruiting team building practice development healthcare industry thought leadership etc.).

Senior Managers in our Mergers & Acquisitions practice have these primary responsibilities:

Client Delivery:

• Lead teams serving clients and investors across the healthcare and life sciences industries with specific capabilities in mergers & acquisitions and technology consulting while demonstrating executive presence with C-level client counterparts
• Support Private Equity funds in buy side diligence sell side diligence mergers carve-outs and value creation & planning projects
• Lead engagements across Life Sciences organizations including CDMOs pharmaceutical manufacturers pharma services organizations oncology platforms radiology/imaging providers diagnostics and laboratory services businesses
• Assess functional and technology capability maturity as part of diligence/assessment projects and compare respective operating models KPIs organizational structures and scalability against leading practices and industry benchmarks
• Lead engagement teams on transaction advisory guiding the team to prepare focused request lists and agendas facilitating client reviews and providing leadership oversight for deliverable creation
• Lead post-close value creation projects for healthcare PE clients and/or funds and lead program management offices (PMOs) that deliver transformational initiatives for portfolio companies
• Identify core findings and trends in data for project teams to quantifiably support recommendations across technology and operations
• Support and drive storyline development for project teams drawing together data analysis visualizations recommendations and financial impacts into cohesive deliverables
• Manage project economics including tracking project budgets creating and delivering invoices and managing A/R collection processes
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis synthesize complex information and support data-driven recommendations for clients exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs
• Apply AI technologies (e.g. generative AI automation tools data models) to enhance insights improve delivery efficiency and elevate the quality of client outcomes

Practice Development:

• Support the ongoing evolution and continuous improvement of WMPs M&A methodologies (diligence planning carve-out etc.) and approaches to client delivery within the Healthcare and Life Sciences value creation M&A team
• Support development of industry perspective pieces and client-facing thought leadership covering Healthcare and Life Sciences including emerging trends across Life Sciences operations manufacturing and technology enablement
• Help shape the culture and growth of the practice through participation in strategy formulation team building recruiting mentorship and practice development initiatives
• Coach and manage other consultants and actively participate in the performance review process

Business Development:

• Understand client strategy and investment priorities and turn those goals into concrete engagements and detailed proposals
• Coordinate and participate with leadership on business development initiatives and meetings with prospective clients
• Lead pricing estimates proposals and engagement letter creation as part of business development and project initiation processes
• Build and maintain relationships within the Private Equity Healthcare and Life Sciences ecosystem through networking and industry engagement

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 8 years of experience working in healthcare technology at one of the following required: M&A/transaction advisory IT consulting healthcare software/HCIT implementation (e.g. EMR commercial software) or in a similar role internal to a healthcare organization
• Experience working Life Sciences organizations including pharma services CDMO/contract manufacturing pharmaceutical manufacturing biotech/pharma oncology radiology/imaging diagnostics laboratory services medical device and healthcare technology organizations
• Understanding of Life Sciences operating models regulatory considerations manufacturing environments and operational scalability preferred
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy mitigate bias and ensure high-quality outputs
• Interest in healthcare business/economics (including healthcare reimbursement models) healthcare policy and regulatory changes and/or healthcare technology/interoperability is required
• Strong project management methodology background including schedule scope issue and risk management experience change management strategic planning and analysis
• Experience managing multiple projects or workstreams concurrently
• Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills; experience presenting to and navigating complex conversations with C-level clients or executives
• Proven success achieving in-market revenue expectations
• Strong financial acumen and ability to analyze and interpret P&L statements and technology spend/investment categories required
• High proficiency with Excel required; experience building financial models a plus
• Candidates must be eligible to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship
• Ability to travel up to 50%; Travel is short term (1-2 days on-site per diligence project 50-75% during multi-month post-close engagements)
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity and openness to new ideas and perspectives

Were a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients delivering real-world solutions.

The combination of business and technology is not new but how we bring them together is unique. Were fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.

At West Monroe we zero in on the heart of the opportunity getting to results faster and preparing people for whats next.

Youll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. Were right there in the room with you co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe collaboration isnt a lofty promise but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

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