We’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing. Added to that we’re the first health insurer in the UK to be awarded B-Corp status in recognition of our significant achievements in sustainability, in addition to our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.
As Mergers & Acquisition Analyst, you’ll join our Emerging Businesses team who focus on strategic partnerships and inorganic activity to facilitate significant step-change growth in the organisation. The Emerging Businesses Team play a number of pivotal roles for Simplyhealth Group owning the corporate venture capital operation, the M&A strategy for Group and Simplyhealth’s in-house incubator, Simplyhealth Foundry.
The Mergers & Acquisition Analyst will play an important part in managing all competitor intelligence, understanding and segmenting potential markets for all lines of business, analysing datasets and monitoring market movements to identify risks and opportunities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team looking to transform Simplyhealth into a multi-line of business group over the next ten years.
Key responsibilities
This role will provide support to the Emerging Businesses team, covering:
- Target market Intelligence: Sizing different healthcare and adjacent market segments to determine areas of opportunity for investment, acquisition or partnership using a data led approach
- Target company intelligence: Further segmenting of attractive markets to identify target companies who are most suitable for investment, acquisition or partnership
- Market analysis: Conducting desktop and other research to understand the commercial performance of both Simplyhealth’s competitors and organisations in markets Simplyhealth are targeting to enter.
- Market analysis: Assist the Insights function to analyse existing markets bringing together various internal datapoints from within the organisation and external sources.
- Market analysis: Identify pricing strategies/market pricing of target company or competitor products, go to market strategies and indirect competition (budget that could be otherwise spent on Simplyhealth products like health assessments and discretionary employee benefits)
- Market analysis: Thoroughly review and keep up to date with any changes to target or competitor businesses, including propositions, key management changes, strategic focuses, target markets, pricing and other qualitative aspects.
- Reporting: Use analysis to produce a monthly market report for inclusion with wider Group management information packs.
- Transaction support: Be responsible for dataroom analysis, communication of information to the transaction team and support with the transaction planning
- Transaction support: Assist with and undertake various due diligence tasks for any given transaction.
- Transaction support: Communicate effectively to the transaction team findings, insights and impacts of due diligence findings
- Transaction support: Support with the development of investment cases and reporting to various stakeholder groups
- Support post-transaction integration planning