VP – Global Health Investing

At AXA IM our purpose, to act for human progress by investing for what matters, is central to every action we take as a business. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper.
As a future VP – Global Health Investing, you will report to Head of Healthcare, and you will be part of AXA IM Alts.

DISCOVER your opportunity

Contribute to deployment of the Global Health PE investment strategies

Transaction modelling, execution, management and monitoring

Build relationships with companies, co-investors, entrepreneurs and strategics to access deal flow, help with deal execution and drive exits

Deliver both financial and impact returns through the portfolio

Your role and responsibilities will include

Pipeline

Originate new deal-flow; leveraging existing network and creating new leads

Screen and rank the pipeline opportunities effectively

Conduct due diligence on the clinical, financial, regulatory, commercial and impact aspects of potential investments

Write initial deal screening memos as well as extensive investment memos

Deal Execution

Support the execution of direct investments in companies for the global health strategies

Investment analysis and financial modelling both before and after investments are made

Understand the impact opportunity-set being addressed and provide input to maximize impact

Lead negotiations; assess and establish innovative deal structures

Investment Team

Actively manage the relationship with portfolio companies including via Board engagement, creation of tracking plans and regular interaction with management teams

Contribute to sourcing, meeting management, database maintenance, valuation exercises, reporting, analysis and investment recommendations

Assist companies with clinical, regulatory, commercial, impact and exit strategies

External Stakeholder Management

Interface with third party service providers relating to due diligence and deal execution; interact with fund investors to provide information and reports on the portfolio’s financial and impact performance

Internal Stakeholder Management

Liaise with all internal stakeholders including risk, compliance, legal, operations, audit and build effective working relationships and processes to ensure efficient execution

Project Management

Assist in co-ordinating projects in the private equity impact investing team including new product development; process improvement; system implementation; portfolio management; reporting
Extract impact data from transactions and build a methodology to report

SHARE your unique expertise

Your qualifications and experience

• Knowledge of the healthcare industry and extensive experience in investing or management consulting, investment banking or private equity-backed healthcare companies
• Experience through the investment life cycle, from sourcing to diligence to execution and exit
• Ability to build sophisticated financial and valuation models
• Previous experience in the healthcare and impact investment sector is preferable
• Knowledge of emerging markets and global health is preferable
• Familiarity with medical device/pharmaceutical/vaccine clinical and regulatory pathways
• Comfort with life sciences
• Ability to bring new ideas to the investment process
• Entrepreneurial attitude and highly motivated individual who is able to function at a high level in an ever-changing environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Self-starter with the ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple projects effectively
• Highly numerical and analytical
• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience
• Preferable advanced University degree with relevant focus for global health investing

The pay range for this position is ($150,000 – $200,000 ). Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues’ pay.

We would love to know more about you. Let’s connect! Send us your resume.

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things. In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

At AXA IM we are investing with a clear purpose – to make the world a better place. We act for human progress by investing for what matters. Our conviction-led approach enables us to uncover what we believe to be the best global investment opportunities across alternative and core asset classes. We are already entrusted by our clients with more than €887 billion in assets.

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