Job ID 325347BR Position Title Senior Director M&A Apply to Job
Job Description
Your Responsibilities:
220 million. This is the number of patients impacted by our medicines within the Pharma division in 2020!
Join the M&A Team and share our aspiration to Re-imagine Medicine!
Job Purpose:
This role will be primarily involved with developing and executing the M&A strategy. The Senior Director
M&A will work closely with senior management, divisions business franchises, Strategic Planning, and
BD&L functions. She/he will act as a center of competence for BUs regarding process, tactics and valuation and proactively gather market intelligence on potential M&A targets.
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
• Work closely with Corporate and divisional management to understand key corporate and business
objectives
• Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to ensure continuous development of M&A
strategic roadmap and M&A target list
• Coordinate interactions across firm including key corporate functions (tax, legal, BPA, finance)
• Provide support services to Business Franchises/Units to assess M&A opportunities
• Build relationships with external parties to facilitate implementation of M&A strategy (potential targets,
legal advisors, bankers)
• Proactively develop insights on competitors with respect to their M&A strategy
• Leadership on M&A projects to deliver first-class execution of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures,
strategic alliances and other business combination transactions
• Provide project management function during execution projects (including conducting due diligence,
valuation, negotiation of deals, key documentation, preparation of groundwork for post-merger integration)
Minimum requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
• Advanced Degree/MBA (discipline with analytical content)
• 10 years extensive M&A transaction experience, pharma/biotech industry, especially in a project leadership capacity or 3+ years’ experience in Investment Banking
• Negotiation experience and preference for Investment Banking experience
• Has in-depth knowledge of Corporate Finance and has proven experience as a finance business partner and leader
• Has strong business knowledge, strategic planning and analytical skills with conceptional thinking capabilities
Why consider Novartis?
769 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2020 and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying! Imagine what you could do here at Novartis
Imagine what you could do at Novartis!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine. Division CORPORATE Business Unit Global Corp. Finance Location Switzerland Site Basel Company/Legal Entity Novartis International AG Functional Area BD&L & Strategic Planning Job Type Full Time Employment Type Regular Shift Work No
