Corporate Development Manager

ONWARD Confidential Search | Manager OR Senior Analyst, Corporate Development

Mandate: This individual will build transaction models, lead financial diligence, and help advance acquisitions from initial evaluation through closing. Without this hire, the team cannot efficiently underwrite and execute its growing pipeline without slowing its acquisition pace or overextending existing resources.

Markers of Success:

Within 60 Days:

• Develop a strong understanding of the platform’s business model, acquisition strategy, transaction pipeline, and approach to evaluating physician-practice investments.
• Use the team’s financial models, templates, and processes to produce reliable work on live transactions with limited guidance.

Within 90 Days:

• Independently own assigned diligence workstreams, including quality-of-earnings review, payer-mix analysis, practice-performance assessment, and financial modeling.
• Translate financial findings into clear, decision-ready materials for M&A leadership, company executives, practice administrators, and physicians.

Within 6 Months:

• Take meaningful ownership of an acquisition from initial evaluation through modeling, diligence, internal review, and closing preparation.
• Manage multiple active transactions while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and disciplined follow-through.
• Become a dependable execution partner who can be handed a live opportunity and move it forward without extensive handholding.

Within 12 Months:

• Contribute meaningfully to completed acquisitions while consistently delivering sound analysis and defensible recommendations.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders ranging from practice administrators and physicians to senior company executives.
• Demonstrate full competency across the transaction lifecycle and earn increasingly complex assignments.

Within 12–18 Months:

• Demonstrate readiness for promotion through consistently strong execution, broader transaction ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to support junior team members.

Attributes:

• Analytical Rigor — Builds accurate models, tests assumptions, and identifies the issues that materially affect value.
• Execution — Turns analysis into completed work and keeps transactions moving.
• Proactivity — Anticipates what the team needs and takes ownership without excessive direction.
• Executive Communication — Explains complex financial findings clearly to financial and nonfinancial stakeholders.
• Follow-Through — Tracks open items, closes loops, and remains accountable through completion.
• Work Ethic — Brings the pace and responsiveness required within a highly acquisitive organization.
• Team Fit — Works collaboratively, communicates comfortably, and contributes positive energy to a close-knit team.

Experience and Background:

• Approximately 3–5 years of relevant M&A, corporate development, investment banking, or transaction advisory experience.
• Direct experience building financial models and supporting live transactions is required.
• Healthcare-services or physician-practice M&A experience is preferred but not mandatory.
• Candidates from acquisitive healthcare platforms, healthcare investment banking, and quality-of-earnings or financial-due diligence teams are especially relevant.
• Must be comfortable presenting analysis to executives, operators, and provider stakeholders.

All-in cash compensation up to $150k DOE.