Associate Manager - Strategic Initiatives ( M&A )

#Experience on Pharma is preferred

#Experience on Mergers & Acquisition is Mandatory

We are a technology-led healthcare solutions provider. We are driven by our purpose to enable healthcare organizations to be future-ready. We offer accelerated, global growth opportunities for talent that’s bold, industrious, and nimble. With Indegene, you gain a unique career experience that celebrates entrepreneurship and is guided by passion, innovation, collaboration, and empathy. To explore exciting opportunities at the convergence of healthcare and technology, check out www.careers.indegene.com

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We understand how important the first few years of your career are, which create the foundation of your entire professional journey. At Indegene, we promise you a differentiated career experience. You will not only work at the exciting intersection of healthcare and technology but also will be mentored by some of the most brilliant minds in the industry. We are offering a global fast-track career where you can grow along with Indegene’s high-speed growth.

If this excites you, then apply below.

Role: Associate Manager – Strategic Initiatives

Location: India

Description:

Associate Manager – Strategic Initiatives

Responsibilities:

• Support the development and execution of enterprise priorities by conducting structured research, strategic analysis, and financial assessments.
• Work closely with business and functional leads to gather inputs for initiative planning, feasibility checks, and scenario modeling.
• Business Case Creation: Collaborate with senior stakeholders to build robust business cases, including revenue and cost projections, market opportunity sizing, and strategic rationale for investments or acquisitions.
• Market Scanning & Target Identification: Conduct landscape assessments to identify potential inorganic growth targets and map competitive ecosystems.
• Deal Rationale & Strategic Fit Analysis: Support qualitative and quantitative assessment of potential targets' alignment with business strategy, including portfolio synergy, capability fit, and market access.
• Valuation Modeling: Assist in building discounted cash flow (DCF), comparable company, and precedent transaction valuation models to assess deal attractiveness.
• Synergy Assessment & Value Creation: Contribute to pre-deal synergy estimation (commercial, operational, and cost-based), and support post-deal value realization modeling.
• Integration Support: Track key integration metrics, identify early value levers, and help maintain synergy dashboards under guidance from the SI lead.
• Track initiative KPIs, monitor performance against business plans, and support initiative health reporting.
• Analyze variance drivers, risks, and lead indicators across strategic programs and M&A integrations.
• Support creation of standardized templates for strategic evaluations, synergy models, and post-integration reviews.
• Help codify learnings from completed deals or initiatives into playbooks or knowledge repositories.

Desired Profile:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Life Sciences, or Engineering; MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree from reputed college

• 3+ years

  of experience in

  strategy, corporate development, M&A advisory, business planning, or strategic finance

  .
• Experience in

  life sciences, pharma, or healthcare

  is highly preferred.
• Direct exposure to business case development, synergy modeling, or financial valuation is essential.
• Strong financial modeling capabilities: Excel proficiency in DCF, comps, and scenario analysis.
• Excellent problem structuring, synthesis, and executive communication.
• Familiarity with tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI/Tableau, and ideally CRM, content management, or digital analytics platforms.
• Sound understanding of commercial models and operational cost structures in Pharma or Healthcare is an added advantage.
• Business-savvy and analytically sharp with high attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to work across stakeholders in strategy, finance, and business units.
• Self-driven and adaptable, with a hands-on mindset.
• Capable of toggling between high-level strategic framing and granular financial rigor.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

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