Experienced Consultant, M&A (Healthcare & Life Sciences)
About The Position
West Monroe's Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice is seeking an Experienced Consultant to join its Healthcare & Life Sciences Value Creation team. The role serves corporate and private equity clients investing in or operating software, services, and technology-enabled services businesses across payer, provider, and life sciences sectors. The team delivers value creation and transaction advisory services, including technology due diligence, platform acquisitions, mergers and integrations, corporate divestitures and carve-outs, sell-side readiness, and post-close value creation. The consultant works with experienced consultants and industry leaders to help clients make informed investment decisions and accelerate value creation. The position combines client delivery, practice development, and business development responsibilities. It includes assessing technology and business capabilities, supporting diligence and post-close work, creating client deliverables, developing methodologies, and contributing to client pursuits. The role may require travel of up to 50%, typically one to two days onsite for diligence engagements, with travel potentially increasing to 50–75% during post-close engagement work. Applicants must be able to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in consulting or team-based roles across at least two of these areas: Healthcare, Healthcare IT, Mergers & Acquisitions, or Corporate Development.
- Experience working with payer, provider, life sciences, healthcare software, or healthcare technology organizations.
- Interest in healthcare economics, reimbursement models, healthcare policy, regulatory trends, healthcare technology, and interoperability.
- Strong financial acumen, including the ability to analyze and interpret financial statements and key healthcare and technology business drivers.
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely.
- Experience integrating AI tools such as ChatGPT into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, with critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
- Ability to travel up to 50%; travel is typically one to two days onsite for diligence engagements and may increase to 50–75% during post-close engagement work.
- Commitment to inclusion and diversity and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree.
- Interest in healthcare economics, reimbursement models, healthcare policy, regulatory trends, healthcare technology, and interoperability.
Responsibilities
- Assess how technology supports business operations, creates enterprise value, and enables growth, while identifying improvement opportunities and potential investment risks.
- Prepare for and participate in management interviews and workshops to understand business models, strategic priorities, operational challenges, and technology initiatives.
- Develop client-ready communications and presentations that support decision-making, communicate project status, identify risks, and recommend actionable solutions.
- Contribute to technology due diligence reports, assessments, implementation roadmaps, communication plans, project plans, and financial analyses.
- Partner with engagement leadership to identify, communicate, and mitigate project risks.
- Collaborate with West Monroe team members and client stakeholders to establish high-performing project teams.
- Evaluate client and target-company capabilities against Healthcare & Life Sciences industry leading practices.
- Own assigned workstreams and deliverables, ensuring quality, completeness, and accuracy.
- Build relationships with stakeholders across client and target organizations.
- Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations, while critically evaluating outputs.
- Apply AI technologies, including generative AI, automation tools, and data models, to enhance insights, delivery efficiency, and client outcomes.
- Contribute to methodologies, tools, templates, training materials, and intellectual property that enhance client delivery.
- Support the growth of the Healthcare & Life Sciences M&A practice by contributing to new offerings and delivery capabilities.
- Participate in performance management, coaching, and professional development activities.
- Support campus and experienced-hire recruiting initiatives as opportunities arise.
- Help develop project approaches, proposals, statements of work, pricing estimates, and work plans for business development activities.
- Conduct research for client pursuits and identify opportunities to expand Healthcare & Life Sciences relationships.
- Participate in industry events and networking activities to build professional relationships and strengthen West Monroe's market presence.
- Develop an understanding of client investment objectives and help tailor solutions to business needs.
Benefits
- Medical insurance for employees and their families
- Dental insurance for employees and their families
- Vision insurance for employees and their families
- Basic life insurance
- Company 401(k) plan
- Employee stock ownership program
- Eligibility for annual bonuses
- Unlimited flexible time off
- Ten paid holidays per calendar year
- Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave upon hire date
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
