Associate Manager - Strategic Initiatives (M&A)

As an Associate Manager - Strategic Initiatives at Indegene, you will play a crucial role in supporting enterprise-wide strategic priorities and inorganic growth opportunities. Your responsibilities will include developing business cases, conducting market analyses, evaluating M&A opportunities, and supporting cross-functional strategic projects that shape the company's future trajectory. You will collaborate closely with business and functional leads to gather inputs for initiative planning, feasibility checks, and scenario modeling. Your role will involve creating robust business cases with senior stakeholders, conducting market scanning and target identification to identify potential growth targets, and analyzing deal rationale and strategic fit of potential targets with the business strategy. In addition, you will be responsible for assisting in building valuation models such as discounted cash flow, comparable company, and precedent transaction models to assess deal attractiveness. You will also contribute to pre-deal synergy estimation, post-deal value realization modeling, and integration support by tracking key metrics and maintaining synergy dashboards under the guidance of the SI lead. Furthermore, you will track initiative KPIs, monitor performance against business plans, and support initiative health reporting. Your role will also involve analyzing variance drivers, risks, and lead indicators across strategic programs and M&A integrations, as well as supporting the creation of standardized templates for strategic evaluations, synergy models, and post-integration reviews. The ideal candidate for this role should have a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Life Sciences, or Engineering, with an MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree from a reputed college. You should have 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, along with strong financial modeling capabilities and excellent problem-solving and communication skills. If you are business-savvy, analytically sharp, detail-oriented, and have strong interpersonal skills to work across stakeholders in strategy, finance, and business units, then this role might be the perfect fit for you. Join us at Indegene and be a part of a purpose-driven organization that enables healthcare organizations to be future-ready. Apply now and embark on a rewarding career at the intersection of healthcare and technology.,