(Senior) Director Corporate Strategy, M&A

Gr?nenthal GmbH; Aachen; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Grünenthal GmbH, a global leader in pain management, is seeking a senior strategy consultant with extensive M&A experience to drive external growth. You will work with senior leadership across finance, operations and corporate development, shaping investment theses and enabling strategic decisions.

The role requires 5–8 years in top-tier strategy consulting or corporate finance, a strong pharma background, and proven leadership across global teams.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years consulting experience at senior project manager level or corporate finance roles
• Excellent university degree in business administration, economics, science or equivalent
• Significant commercial due-diligence experience in pharma and strong M&A knowledge
• Sound knowledge of Pharma/Healthcare
• Strong project and program leadership experience
• Experience working with global, cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders
• Ability to simplify complexity into strategic recommendations
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills

Responsibilities

• Support Grünenthal’s external growth strategy definition and execution with stakeholders across finance and operations
• Drive end-to-end M&A projects including strategy, business-case modelling, due diligence and execution
• Develop deal rationales, investment theses and synergies; prepare investment memoranda for senior management
• Prepare market and competitive analyses and identify potential targets/assets and candidates
• Synthesize findings into actionable insights and communicate them to senior leaders
• Lead corporate strategy projects/programs for Grünenthal Group and CEO/CEB involvement

Skills

Strategy consulting

Corporate development

M&A execution

Leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills

Ambiguity management

Education

Business/ Economics/ Science degree

Job description

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Country: Germany

Department: Corporate Functions

Job ID: 45485

Professional|Permanent|Full-/ Part-time|Hybrid

Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at Grünenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills – from experts in finance, IT, HR, law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If you’re a great collaborator and a strong communicator, you’ll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our company’s positive impact on patients and their families.

What the job looks like

Each day you’ll enjoy a variety of challenges, such as:

• Strategically support Grünenthal’s ambitious external growth strategy definition and execution, working closely with the business, and otherkey functions (e.g. finance, operations)
• Driving end-to-end M&A projects, including strategy, business-case modelling, due diligence and execution
• Developing deal rationales, investment theses and synergies, as well as preparing investment memoranda for senior management
• Preparation of market and competitive analyses and industry screenings for the identification of potential acquisition targets / assets orinvestment candidates
• Synthesize findings into insights across projects, including implications that inform business decisions, Communicates and advocates insights to senior business leaders
• Support strategic business projects for Grünenthal Group, the CEO, and the Corporate Executive Board; independently own major corporate strategy projects/programs

What you’ll bring to the table

To make the most of this role and truly thrive, you should have:

• 5-8 years consulting experience in one of the top tier strategy consulting firms at senior project manager level or corporate finance roles including but not limited to Corporate Development, Private Equity, Venture Capital and/or Investment Banking
• Excellent university degree in business administration, economics, science or equivalent
• Significant commercial due-diligence experience in pharma and a strong command of the M&A process
• Sound knowledge of Pharma/Healthcare
• Strong project and program leadership experience
• Working across global, cross-functional teams, navigating ambiguity and influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to reduce complexity into strategy decision recommendations
• Advanced communication-, presentation- and negotiation-skills

Grünenthal is a global leader in pain management and related diseases. As a science-based, privately-owned pharmaceutical company, we have a long track record of bringing innovative treatments and state-of-the-art technologies to patients worldwide. Our purpose is to change lives for the better – and innovation is our passion. We are focussing all of our activities and efforts on working towards our vision of a world free of pain.

Grünenthal is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and has affiliates in 28 countries across Europe, Latin America and the US. Our products are available in more than 100 countries. In 2024, Grünenthal employed around 4,300 people and achieved sales of € 1.8 billion.