Senior Manager, Strategy & Corporate Development (Hybrid/Chicago)

Company Description

About Adtalem Global Education

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

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Adtalem believes in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation, which thrives when we can work flexibly. This hybrid role requires office presence three days a week (Tue, Wed, and Thursday), with the rest of the workweek spent working from home.

Job Description

CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

Manage day-to-day execution of deal processes:

• Support all due diligence work streams, including active management of data requests.
• Coordinate with cross-functional internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment across enterprise.
• Manage third party financial, tax, and legal advisors, when appropriate.
• Provide input for definitive deal documents (e.g., IOI, LOI, purchase agreement).
• Deliver regular updates to leadership and executive teams regarding deal progress, key issues/risks, and next steps.

Develop and maintain financial models supporting corporate development initiatives:

• Serve as a thought partner in developing investment theses for inorganic growth opportunities.
• Distill large data sets and key assumptions into dynamic financial models.
• Provide valuation recommendations based on financial returns analysis (e.g., DCF, IRR, ROIC) and/or prevailing market multiples (e.g., EBITDA, ARR).
• Update and maintain financial models based on new facts or changes in underlying assumptions.

Synthesize market research and competitive intelligence analyses to develop and monitor a comprehensive market map for corporate development purposes:

• Actively manage corporate development pipeline based on both inbound (reactive) and outbound (proactive) activity.
• Assess potential acquisition/partner targets for strategic fit.
• Support in development of investment rationale and prioritization.  
• Prepare documents and recommendations in support of investment committee meetings.
• Provide regular corporate development pipeline updates to vertical leaders, COO/CEO, and Board.

Assist with key post deal/partnership activity:

• Develop and socialize key deal summaries and integration/separation considerations.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders with respect to interpreting transaction terms.
• Actively participate in integration planning, ensuring proper knowledge transfer from deal/partnership team to key internal stakeholders.
• Monitor financial performance of acquired assets and new partnerships, including key performance indicators and a qualitative assessment of strategic factors.

Develop C-Suite/Board level presentations highlighting progress of key corporate development initiatives.

ENTERPRISE STRATEGY

Assist with enterprise strategy initiatives including:

• Development and execution of competitive intelligence capability.
• Portfolio strategy - conduct internal and external analysis, synthesize business vertical inputs, develop recommendations for new opportunities.
• Engage in analyses around whether to buy/build/partner in pursuit of a given strategic objective.
• Annual strategic planning process.
• Execution of special projects and “one-off” strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree or MBA desirable.
• 5-7+ years of experience in a top-tier M&A consulting firm, investment bank, or within an equivalent corporate development group.
• Direct experience with executing end-to-end corporate development initiatives (e.g., acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, partnerships).
• Experience conducting hands-on analysis of target companies, including developing detailed financial models from scratch.
• Superior quantitative and