Associate - Life Sciences & Healthcare Private Equity, Denton Search

Job Title	Associate - Life Sciences & Healthcare Private Equity
Employer	Denton Search
Job Type	Full Time
Location	London, UK
Industry	Private Equity
Experience	0-3 Years
Languages	English
Deadline	Tuesday 23rd February 2016

Our client is a unique firm that sits at the intersection of financial services, consulting and executive search. They offer executive search and advisory services exclusively to the top 50 Private Equity investors globally. They connect senior executives with Private Equity investors to take on roles in their portfolio businesses and to co-invest in deals. They also help their clients to appraise potential investment opportunities using their sector knowledge and insight. They have four international offices in London, Paris, Munich and New York. Our client is looking to hire an Associate or Senior Associate to join their Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice within the Head office in London.

The Firm

Europe’s No 1 independent Private Equity focused Executive Search and Advisory firm
Centre for international Private Equity live deals
Clients are the top 50 Private Equity funds globally
Significant independence and responsibility
Excellent remuneration package
Previously backed by George Soros (Towerbrook Private Equity)
Exposure to extremely senior professionals including CEOs, Chairman and Non-Executive Directors
International exposure – 60% deals are non UK transactions
High calibre and successful colleagues working in an extremely entrepreneurial, innovative and blue chip environment
Strong career progression & meritocratic environment
Become an expert on the Life Sciences sector and the Private Equity industry
The Role

As an Associate you will play a key role in supporting the Life Sciences & Healthcare team on both pre- and post-deal private equity engagements. This will involve helping private equity funds to map and understand the most active sub-sectors, to evaluate target companies and to find suitable alternative leadership teams who can be appointed to grow or turn around a company.

On a day-to-day basis the role will involve:

Working on specific Life Sciences & Healthcare assignments for funds – for example, finding advisors to validate an asset pre-acquisition or identifying a new CEO for one of their portfolio companies
Helping to monitor and track the Life Sciences & Healthcare team’s private equity deals in Europe
Mapping all the active private equity funds in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector and keeping abreast of their investment priorities
Researching companies in Life Sciences & Healthcare to identify potential acquisition targets and world-class executives with whom you can build relationships
Preparing analytical reports to brief clients on progress and attending meetings with senior team members
Assisting senior team members with networking with leading executives and board members in the sector
Experience

The right candidate will have at least 18 months’ to 3 years’ experience within executive search.

Characteristics

Positive

Energetic and tenacious

High tempo approach and used to multi-tasking and significant workload

Naturally at ease with people, relationship oriented

Good at listening

Able to be persuasive

Non-hierarchical

Strong intellect

Intrinsically motivated

Genuine interest in both people and business

About Denton Search

Denton Search is a leading international Search to Search consultancy working in the Tier One Executive Search market. We focus on Executive Search appointments and specialise in finding researchers, associates, consultants and partners.  

We have worked for 3 of the top 6 global Executive Search firms and the leading boutiques within their area of specialisation. Thanks to our reputation and strength of our network we are in a position to enable our clients to access the most talented executive search professionals worldwide.

We were founded in 2008 by one of the leading figures in Search to Search. We advise a wide variety of organisations from boutique to large global Executive Search firms.