PI&R Working Capital Senior Manager – Life Sciences

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Join Deloitte’s Performance Improvement & Restructuring Offering (PI&R) and help life sciences clients unlock liquidity, improve cash flow, and strengthen working capital performance in a sector defined by innovation, regulatory complexity, and rapid growth. As a Working Capital Senior Manager, you will advise leading companies, investors, and stakeholders on high-impact challenges, translating operational complexity into measurable cash and value creation.

Work You’ll Do

As a Working Capital Senior Manager in Turnaround & Restructuring, part of PI&R, you will be responsible for helping Life Sciences clients improve liquidity, optimize cash flow, and address complex operational and financial challenges.

• Lead working capital and cash flow improvement engagements for corporate and private equity-backed clients across assessment, design, and implementation support
• Manage client relationships, guide engagement teams, and oversee analyses that identify opportunities across receivables, payables, inventory, procurement, and operating processes

• Manage data, curate insights, and deliver robust analytics to highlight key business issues and inform the project team and client where potential areas improvement exist

• Conduct management interviews, evaluate business policies and procedures to understand the key operational performance drivers of a business and translate financial and operational findings into actionable recommendations
• Develop client-ready deliverables, executive presentations, proposals, and market-facing materials to support engagement delivery and business development efforts
• Business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients by building strong relationships with clients and identify areas to expand our business
• Coach and supervise junior team members, enhance team methodologies and tools, and collaborate across functions to drive results in complex client environments
• Participate in market-building activities, including preparation of proposal / pitch and marketing materials
• Assist with the building of internal tools and templates to support our client service offerings

• Provide support, guidance and vision in improving and enhancing the team’s practice delivery methodology

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

PI&R defines and leads enterprise Board and C-Suite agendas for non-distressed, underperforming, and distressed clients to improve margins, operational and financial performance, navigate financial difficulties, and improve cashflow to fund critical transformations.

Within Deloitte’s Turnaround & Restructuring practice and broader PI&R Offering, the Working Capital team helps clients improve liquidity and release cash through targeted operational and financial improvements. The team works across areas such as receivables, payables, inventory, procurement, and process performance, using data-driven insights and practical execution support to help clients strengthen cash generation, improve efficiency, and create sustainable value. Our practice also works with companies, acquirers and private equity firms, to identify value creation opportunities that exist within companies or a potential acquisition candidate to improve business process performance and release excess cash from working capital. Whether it involves debt restructuring, asset divestitures, or operational realignment, Deloitte’s working capital professionals’ goal is to help our clients emerge stronger.

An evolving customer and regulatory landscape, mounting pipeline of next-gen assets and portfolio pressures, and intensifying competition are presenting new organizational and operational hurdles for Life Sciences companies. These complex market dynamics are requiring new levels of rigor and insight in business strategy development and problem-solving, both domestically and globally. Throughout the health ecosystem, you’ll find courageous and inspiring people who are committed to driving transformation, advancing health equity, and leading a well-being revolution. Where you find innovators committed to sustainable progress, you’ll find Deloitte’s Life Sciences & Health Care practice. Our leaders work side-by-side to orchestrate and deliver on the business of science and health. We bring trusted, flexible approaches that help foster innovation, harness new technologies, and formulate consumer-driven strategies to engineer a digitally enabled, equitable future of health – starting today.

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of experience with a consulting firm or in an internal consulting role at a large corporation leading business process improvement projects
• 10+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: finance process improvement, supply chain optimization, procurement, operational cost reduction, or process benchmarking and maturity assessments
• 10+ years of experience delivering projects across assessment, design, and implementation support
• 10+ years of experience leading working capital improvement projects for Life Sciences commercial clients or private equity portfolio companies
• 10+ years of experience using data analysis and visualization tools such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Structured Query Language (SQL), Alteryx, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, or QlikView
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or Computer Science
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred:

• Experience in corporate finance or restructuring
• Professional certification or progress toward certification such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP), Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Lean Six Sigma, or Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Experience with a large professional services organization