Senior Corporate Development Analyst
About The Position
The Senior Corporate Development Analyst is a high impact individual contributor role within a fast paced Corporate Development team operating at the intersection of finance, strategy, and commercial development. This role independently supports deal evaluation and strategic analysis across licensing, partnerships, and M&A opportunities, partnering closely with senior leaders to inform investment decisions.The Senior Analyst is expected to own complex analyses, exercise sound judgment, and synthesize insights into executive ready recommendations, playing a key role in how the company evaluates and prioritizes strategic opportunities.
Requirements
- Experience supporting licensing, partnership, or M&A evaluations with increasing independence and judgment.
- Exposure to pharmaceutical or healthcare industry dynamics, including familiarity with generics, branded pharmaceuticals, biosimilars, or FDA regulatory pathways.
- Advanced Excel proficiency, including the ability to build and audit financial models from scratch.
- Strong PowerPoint and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate complex analysis clearly and succinctly to senior stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of SQL for querying and analyzing large, complex datasets.
- Proven ability to manage multiple analytical workstreams simultaneously in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging cross functional partners and senior leaders.
- Demonstrated ownership mindset - intellectually curious, proactive, and comfortable operating in ambiguous situations.
Responsibilities
- Independently build, refine, and maintain complex financial models to evaluate licensing deals, partnerships, and M&A opportunities, including cash flow analysis, NPV/IRR calculations, sensitivity analysis, and scenario modeling.
- Conduct advanced market and competitive research, analyzing industry trends, pipeline activity, new drug approvals, and ANDA dynamics to identify and assess growth opportunities.
- Own deal pipeline analytics and reporting, ensuring accurate tracking of opportunities, transaction assumptions, risks, and key milestones for leadership visibility.
- Develop clear, executive ready presentations that translate complex financial and strategic analysis into actionable insights for senior leadership, partners, and governance forums.
- Design and maintain dashboards and visualizations using BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to monitor deal flow, market trends, and portfolio performance.
- Leverage SQL to extract, manipulate, and analyze large datasets, supporting deep dive analysts of commercial, financial, and operational performance.
- Collaborate cross functionally with Commercial, Finance, Regulatory, Legal, and R&D teams to integrate inputs and develop comprehensive, well structured business cases.
- Support preparation of materials for executive leadership and Board level reviews, including investment recommendations, valuation summaries, and strategic narratives.
- Apply enterprise financial systems and tools (e.g., Oracle Hyperion EPM, SQL based platforms) to analyze top and bottom line performance across product portfolios.
- Partner with Finance to support forecasting and long range planning, contributing analytical insights to inform achievable yet ambitious growth targets.
- Identify opportunities to enhance analytical rigor, modeling approaches, and reporting efficiency within the Corporate Development function.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
