Capital Allocation & Investments, Manager
Business DevelopmentBachelor RequiredSenior
About the role
Job Description
The Capital Allocation & Investments team is a new function within Agilent that will play a critical role in shaping capital deployment strategy, driving financial analysis, and decision-making across M&A, organic growth (e.g. new product launches), and portfolio optimization initiatives. The team partners closely with Corporate Development and serves as a key advisor to senior leadership across business groups, finance, and other functional stakeholders.
Reporting to the Director, Capital Allocation & Investments, the Manager is responsible for leading financial analyses in support of high complexity projects, with a primary focus on M&A. Over time, this role will also play a key role in developing core frameworks and infrastructure to enhance capital allocation discipline.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate capital allocation opportunities across full spectrum of M&A, organic growth projects (e.g. new product launches), and portfolio optimization
- Lead business case development, collaborating closely with business leadership / key stakeholders to drive alignment and executive support
- Perform M&A due diligence, partnering closely with Corporate Development and external advisors (e.g. investment bankers, consultants)
- Conduct portfolio analysis to inform prioritization, capital allocation trade-offs, and long-term strategic planning
- Mentor and support development of junior staff
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree, MBA a plus
- 8+ years of professional experience in either investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or valuation / transaction services
- Strong understanding of advanced corporate finance concepts (valuation, investment returns, EPS accretion / dilution) with ability to lead workstreams independently
- Experience working on M&A deal teams or in a similar capacity
- Exceptional attention to detail with ability to communicate key business insights to leadership
- Strategic mindset with ability to identify and evaluate growth opportunities
- High level of self-drive, proactivity, and ownership mentality
- Broad exposure to life science tools and/or software industries a plus
Travel Required:
Occasional
Shift:
Day
Duration:
No End Date
Job Function:
Finance
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent customers are finding new ways to treat cancer, ensure food, water, air, and medicine quality and safety, discover new drug treatments, research infectious diseases, and create alternative energy solutions for a greener planet. From start to finish, we have them covered with our vast product solutions and services portfolio. Around the world, Agilent’s people bring innovations, technologies, and services to the forefront of science. Our teams design and manufacture a wide array of advanced analytical, research, and diagnostic solutions and tools for use inside and outside laboratories. Additionally, the unique expertise of Agilent’s CrossLab and technical teams provides valuable insight and support to our customers, helping them fully optimize their laboratories and resources to better focus on what's important: bringing great science to life. In fiscal 2022, Agilent Technologies generated revenue of (US) $6.85 billion.