Senior Manager M&A Projects & Integration (m/f/d) Corporate Strategic Initiatives

29 countries. Around 49,000 colleagues. 70,000 pharmacies supplied and millions of patients: Join PHOENIX! Support us in supplying the people of Europe with medicines and healthcare products quickly and reliably - and experience a job that is as diverse as it is important. Where you can proactively master challenges, implement ideas and drive change. Look forward to pure variety at a successful, future-proof family company, the market-leading pharmaceutical retailer in Germany and at the same time the best integrated healthcare provider in Europe.

For our Corporate Strategic Initiatives department we are looking for a Senior Manager M&A Projects & Integration (m/f/d)

The position is based at our headquarters in Mannheim.

In this role, you will shape complex M&A transactions and integrations that are critical to PHOENIX Group’s strategic diversification. You act as a central orchestrator across corporate functions, business units, and geographies, ensuring value creation from deal rationale through successful integration.

Your Tasks

• Orchestrate complex M&A projects in PHOENIX Group’s diversification areas from pre-signing through closing and post-merger integration
• Ensure establishment of integration governance including tracking for M&A projects
• Drive integration planning with a strong focus on synergy identification, validation, and realization tracking
• Further develop and institutionalize PHOENIX Group’s integration governance standards and best practices
• Ensure consideration of merger control and regulatory workstreams in M&A projects, in close collaboration with Legal, Tax, Finance, and external advisors
• Act as a trusted sparring partner for all project participants, including senior stakeholders such as country management and PHOENIX Group Executive Board

Your Profile

• Excellent university degree; a double degree or PhD is a strong plus
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience, including responsibility as project lead or PMO for complex M&A transactions and post-merger integrations
• Solid Experience in the healthcare and/or logistics sector preferred
• Exposure to regulatory filings and merger control processes is highly desirable
• Strong analytical and structured mindset with a hands‑on, solution‑oriented working style
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to navigate effectively across corporate functions and business units
• Business-fluent in English and one additional language desirable
• Future-proof: We are growing and expanding. We are the market leader and offer you a permanent employment contract, vacation pay as well as 30 days of vacation and much more. (job bike, company pension scheme, etc.
• Reconciliation of private and professional life: We offer mobile office and flexible working time models.
• Career: We promote you! There are great opportunities within the PHOENIX Group.
• Continuing education: We would love to - we are happy if you are eager to learn. The PHOENIX Learning World offers you an exclusive range of further training courses.
• Team: This is how we work. We promote team cohesion through small and large events.