Company Overview

CCD Partners is a chemicals and life sciences corporate development consultancy.

Business leaders (owners, CEOs, and investors) use us to boost their existing in-house pool of talent with the specialist experience and resources needed to deliver transformative corporate development projects.

In general, what we do can be divided between “sell-side” projects (e.g. raising capital, divestments, founder succession, exits/sales), “buy-side” projects (e.g. investments, acquisitions), and “development” projects (e.g. recruitment, market intelligence, strategic consulting).

Our ability to combine highly specialist resources from multiple fields, tailored to the needs of each project, allows our clients to uncover, evaluate, and pursue opportunities and strategic potential that would otherwise be out of reach.

Job Description

The Analyst will work with CCD Partners’ team of partners and consultants, supporting live assignments as well as playing a key role in the ongoing development of CCD Partners’ client base and brand visibility.

The position will include:

• Shadowing partners on client conference calls and site visits
• Preparing notes and briefing packs for project teams
• Building project support materials, including Information Memoranda (IMs), due diligence reports, market studies, and research assignments
• Support to CCD Partners’ data and marketing teams, contributing insight and market intelligence
• Profiling companies and assessing their strategic fit with our clients
• Contributing to good data management
• Project management
• Supporting CCD Partners’ events

Job Requirements

We are seeking a driven, entrepreneurially-minded recent graduate who is looking for broad exposure to wide range of business activities and a chance to rapidly build valuable, transferable skills in a dynamic environment.

Key attributes will include:

• Strong scientific academic background (2:1 or higher with leading university in a core scientific discipline, e.g. chemistry, biology, physics)
• Demonstrable knowledge of or interest in the chemicals and life sciences industries and private equity, corporate finance, and M&A
• Excellent and engaging communicator in business English with an eye for detail, accuracy, and clarity of language (written and verbal)
• Able to clearly articulate own thought processes, comfortable critiquing own workings and information sources and identifying when help is required
• Fast learner with a problem-solving mindset, happy to fill knowledge gaps quickly and self-study
• Versatile skills base including finance/numeracy and relationship-building
• Innovator, continually questioning status quo and able to contribute new and original ideas to improve processes, workflows, and client solutions
• Outstanding organisation, ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Genuine interest in business and commerce, desire to deepen understanding of M&A, investment strategies, and corporate finance
• Strong Word, PowerPoint, and Excel skills and comfortable with online collaboration tools and ways of working
• Previous work experience in any of the following areas a plus:
• Chemicals, life sciences, biotechnology or pharmaceuticals sectors
• Transaction services, consulting, finance/private equity, or accounting
• Sales, marketing, or account management