Senior Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions (Healthcare & Lifesciences)

Our Mergers and Acquisitions Practice (M&A) is seeking a Senior Manager to join our growing Healthcare and Life Sciences value creation team.  In 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.

This team leads projects that deliver West Monroe's 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:

• 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
• Assess functional and technology capability maturity as part of diligence/assessment projects and compare respective operating models, KPIs, and organizational structures 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 on transformational initiatives for portfolio companies
• Manage project economics including: tracking project budgets, creating and delivering invoices, and managing A/R collection processes
• 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 a cohesive deliverable
• Support the ongoing evolution and continuous improvement of WMP's 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
• Coach and manage other consultants and actively participate in the performance review process
• 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

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 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 with Payer (medical, dental, etc.), Provider (healthcare services), Life Sciences (pharma services, medical device, biotech/pharma, etc.) and/or healthcare IT/healthcare software organizations
• 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