Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory - Health and Pharma - Senior Manager London, England
Job description
About the team
Delivering Deal Value (DDV) is a market leading team sitting within PwC’s Consulting business, assisting both Corporate and Private Equity (PE) clients in a wide range of high impact business situations. Most of our work is in the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) space, both pre and post deal, and we regularly go to market with our colleagues in Transaction Services, however we can also deliver non-deal transformation projects.
The M&A Deals we work on range in size from £50m to over £5bn and our clients include several of the most well-known brands and businesses in the world. Our team contains approximately 150 dynamic and friendly people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. We recruit proactively from industry, consulting, private equity and audit to create a great blend of experience on each project. This blend of backgrounds helps us learn from each other and stay at the top of the market delivering fantastic results for our clients on landmark Deals.
About the role
The Healthcare and Pharma team within Delivering Deal Value is a small and supportive team working on a wide range of client engagements, working primarily for private equity houses and large corporates. We have the chance to work on high profile deals with top tier firms, across the deals cycle, and routinely collaborate with PwC’s wider healthcare practice (Strategy consulting and Financial Due Diligence) as part of our go to market.
We comprise both career-consultants and managers from industry, and welcome diversity of experience in our hires.
As Senior Manager, responsibilities will include;
Pre-deal value creation advisory; looking for value in a deal on behalf of our clients, and whether synergies have been appropriately understood.
Providing operational due diligence on both the buy and sell sides.
Supporting divestment of subsidiary businesses and day 1 readiness for the carved-out entity.
Assisting the purchaser with 100 day planning, taking control of the new entity and delivering quick wins.
Supporting our clients on integrating acquisitions, in order to deliver value, reduce risk and run an effective integration programme.
Post acquisition performance improvement using proprietary Rapid Value Creation methodology.
Other diligence products (e.g. for integration capability) to support vendors in maximising transaction value.
Skills and experience
Either
Operational management or business transformation experience in a corporate environment, as a line manager or internal consulting role.
Or
Experience providing professional services to Healthcare or Pharmaceutical industries.
In addition to;
Deep knowledge of at least one of the following functions within the Healthcare or Pharma Sector; Sales, Finance, Procurement, Supply chain, Quality, R&D or Regulatory.
Strong quantitative and written skills, comfortable creating models in Excel and presentations in PowerPoint.
Experience in change management / operational improvement.
Ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders.
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Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.
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