Director, Mergers & Acquisitions (healthcare & life sciences)

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Our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice is seeking a Director to join our growing Healthcare & Life Sciences Value Creation team. In this leadership role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to private equity investors, corporate clients, and portfolio company executives, leading complex transaction advisory and value creation engagements across the healthcare ecosystem.

You will work within our national M&A practice advising clients through platform acquisitions, mergers and integrations, corporate carve-outs, sell-side readiness, operational due diligence, and post-close value creation initiatives. The ideal candidate brings deep experience leading healthcare M&A engagements and possesses subject matter expertise in Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and healthcare operations to help clients identify transaction risks, uncover value creation opportunities, and accelerate post-close performance.

Our M&A team includes seasoned, industry-leading professionals with expertise spanning healthcare operations, technology, strategy, and private equity. As a Director, you will play a key role in shaping the future of the practice through client development, thought leadership, recruiting, mentoring, and expanding our healthcare M&A platform.

Directors in our Mergers & Acquisitions practice have these primary responsibilities:

• Serve as the executive client lead for healthcare M&A engagements, developing trusted relationships with private equity firms, strategic acquirers, and portfolio company executives.
• Lead buy-side and sell-side due diligence, mergers, carve-outs, integration planning, and post-close value creation engagements across healthcare services, healthcare IT, payer, provider, and life sciences organizations.
• Apply healthcare operational expertise—including Revenue Cycle Management—to assess business performance, identify transaction risks, evaluate operational maturity, and develop actionable value creation opportunities.
• Assess operating models, technology capabilities, organizational structures, KPIs, and financial performance against industry leading practices and investment objectives.
• Lead engagement teams through diligence planning, client interviews, hypothesis development, executive presentations, and final deliverables while ensuring high-quality client outcomes.
• Advise clients on post-close transformation initiatives, integration planning, and execution strategies that accelerate value realization.
• Translate complex operational, financial, and technology findings into clear recommendations for executive leadership teams and investment stakeholders.
• Drive business development by originating opportunities, cultivating executive relationships, developing proposals, leading pricing discussions, and supporting practice growth.
• Partner with practice leadership to evolve West Monroe's healthcare M&A methodologies, transaction advisory offerings, and value creation capabilities.
• Develop industry perspectives and thought leadership related to healthcare M&A, operational performance, healthcare technology, and emerging industry trends.
• Coach and mentor Senior Managers, Managers, and Consultants while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• Manage engagement economics, staffing, forecasting, and overall client satisfaction.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients while exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
• Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, and advanced analytics) to improve delivery efficiency and enhance client outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MHA, or other advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in healthcare consulting, transaction advisory, operational consulting, or private equity advisory with progressive leadership responsibility.
• Significant experience leading healthcare M&A engagements, including operational due diligence, value creation, integration planning, or transaction execution.
• Experience with Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), healthcare operations, or reimbursement models is strongly preferred, with the ability to advise clients on operational performance and value creation opportunities.
• Experience working across healthcare services, healthcare IT, payer, provider, life sciences, or technology-enabled healthcare organizations.
• Demonstrated success developing executive-level client relationships and originating new consulting opportunities.
• Proven ability to lead multiple complex engagements while managing cross-functional teams and engagement economics.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills with experience influencing C-suite executives, boards, and private equity stakeholders.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to evaluate operating performance, analyze financial statements, and identify EBITDA improvement opportunities.
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
• High proficiency with Excel and financial modeling; experience developing investment analyses and business cases preferred.
• Candidates must be eligible to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity and openness to new ideas and perspectives.

Based on pay transparency guidelines, a reasonable expectation for the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here . Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.​ Employees in proximity of our Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco offices will have a geographic premium applied to this salary scale.

Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and b