Engagement Manager - CDD Life Sciences & Healthcare

We’re BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

Our Deals team provides a wide variety of services that deliver value-led advice and outcomes. They have an in-depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of our clients’ affairs. The team works across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. When you join them, you’ll work on some of the world’s most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior stakeholders to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

As a Manager in our Life Sciences & Healthcare (LSHC) Strategy & Commercial Due Diligence team, you will play a central role in delivering high-quality analysis on transactions and growth strategy projects for corporate and private equity clients. You will lead day-to-day workstreams, manage junior team members, and support the development of client relationships across pharma, biotech, medical devices, healthcare services and related subsectors. This role is ideal for someone with solid commercial due diligence and/or strategy experience in LSHC who is ready to take on greater responsibility for project delivery, people development, and practice building, while working closely with Associate Directors/Directors and Partners.

You’ll be someone with:

• Demonstrable experience delivering workstreams on Commercial Due Diligence and/or growth strategy projects, ideally with a strong focus on Life Sciences & Healthcare (e.g. pharma, biotech, medtech, healthcare services).
• Sector knowledge of LSHC markets, value chains and business models, with exposure to transactions and growth strategy in the sector.
• Experience guiding and developing junior team members, with the ability to support high-quality analysis and pragmatic problem solving.
• Ability to contribute to building LSHC team capabilities, knowledge assets and credentials, and to support wider practice initiatives.
• Some experience supporting recruitment, learning and development, and mentoring activities.
• Working understanding of ethics, independence, and professional guidelines, and ability to operate within established risk and compliance frameworks.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.