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Job Summary:

The Associate Director will report directly to the Head of Venture for Catalyst. As a member of the leadership team, the Associate Director will be responsible for helping to oversee the origination and execution of investment transactions. In addition, the Associate Director will also be responsible for originating and executing deals as part of Catalyst deal teams that include research and innovation team members. Also, the Associate Director will work with the Head of Venture and other Catalyst leadership members to manage the overall investment portfolio and report out regularly on its performance.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Leadership activities: manages team along with Head of Venture and coaches them to grow
Deal Sourcing: finding investment opportunities that tie to Catalyst's strategic focus areas, themes and problem statements
Investment diligence: review investment opportunities including data rooms, customer calls, investor calls and interviews with SMEs to determine if Catalyst should allocate investment capital
Portfolio management: Regularly reviews current investment portfolio to identify risks and high performing investments
Wellstar networking: networking with subject matter experts within broader Wellstar to help uncover new investment themes and problem statements
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Accounting-Preferred or Bachelors Business Administration/Management-Preferred or Bachelors Finance-Preferred or Bachelors Economics-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

Additional License(s) and Certification(s):

Required Minimum Experience:

Minimum 5 years experience in healthcare or corporate venture Required
Leadership experience preferred

Required Minimum Skills:

Strategic thinking High
Ability to innovate design strategy for Strategic Focus Areas SFA High
Executive presence High
Change management High
Team leadership and management High
Ability to manage curiosity with pragmatism High
Ability to design and capture ROI within goals High
Ability to create business cases for new / early companies High
Program Management Organizational savvy Healthcare industry knowledge High
Technology knowledge High
Start-up knowledge High
Passion Work ethic High
Critical thinking High
Time management High
Public speaking Delegation Venture savvy Medium
Ability to connect dots within the organization High
Ability to connect dots within the ecosystem Medium
Subject matter expertise on two or more SFAs Medium
Understanding intellectual property rights and protection Medium
Awareness of ethical considerations and compliance High
Learning and adoption of processes High
Ability to grow teams and design development plans High

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