DescriptionAlvarez and Marsal Private Equity Performance ImprovementManager, Merger Integration and Carve-OutsAlvarez and Marsal is a leading independent global professional services firm, specializing in providing turnaround management, performance improvement and corporate advisory services, is seeking to expand its Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) - Merger Integration and Carve-Outs (MIandC) team. With more than 3,000 professionals based in 40 locations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, our firm excels in problem solving and value creation. Drawing on a strong operational heritage and hands-on-approach, our professionals work closely with organizations and stakeholders to help tackle complex business issues and maximize value.AandM's Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) practice, with offices throughout the US, focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged AandM to help improve operating results at their portfolio companies. The companies we assess are upper middle market in the 50 million to 1 billion plus range.Our professionals are aligned with a PEPI service line to promote the development of deep functional skills and experiences and to maximize our ability to tailor solutions to solve our clients' business issues.Our PEPI services include:
CDD/Strategy
Interim Management
Merger Integration and Carve-outs
IT
Rapid Results
Supply Chain
CFO ServicesMerger Integration and Carve-outs: Broaden your expertise, build your skillsetThis is your opportunity to join AandM PEPI's MIandC team - and develop an impressive range of operational skills. Benefiting from early client exposure and learning from some of the top practitioners in the field, you will be involved throughout the lifecycle of some of the largest, most complex and high-profile deals in US.Our Merger Integration and Carve-outs (MIandC) service line brings a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value. We provide corporate and equity buyers with a broad continuum of knowledge and tools for mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures and alliances.The team works across the full spectrum of the deal lifecycle from pre-deal operational and synergy reviews to 'Day 1' planning and post deal implementation. In addition the team has expertise in developing and reviewing restructuring and turnaround plans and identifying operational risks. Our services include due diligence (commercial, operational), Integration Management Office, synergy, TSA, integration planning, Day 1 Readiness, and post-close execution.MIandC is a growing business targeting high growth in the next 2-4 years. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and build leadership skills. The MIandC leadership team is focused on providing career development, training and exposure to international business assignments.Build your skillset by providing valuable insight into how an entire business goes through the change process. And as we help our PE clients outperform the market, you will add real value too. All the while, you can broaden your experience across industry groups and enjoy unlimited opportunities to progress as part of a fast-growing team.Manager:
Manager-level responsibilities include: providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
Depending on the deal size, managers will lead workstreams or a focus area within the Integration Management Office (IMO) - Synergies, TSAs, Blueprinting, Day 1 Readiness, Executive Reporting, Integration Roadmap, Communications, Organizational Design
Directors will lead and deliver large, complex client engagements t at identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for PE clients and their portfolio companies
Day 1 and Day 100 Planning, execution and driving performance improvement in key areas:
Strategic planning
Operational optimization /consolidation
Back office consolidation
Supply chain
IT / reporting integration
Customer and channel management
Actively driving performance improvement assessments, across an enterprise, and overseeing the implementation of recommendations.
Tracking progress against Day 1 and Day 100 objectives and adjusting integration strategies or personnel as requiredQualifications
5-8 years of professional consulting experience, specializing in merger integration, business transformation, and change management
Experience in integration planning and divestitures a plus, but not required
Experience in leading one or more work streams in a business transformation
Deep functional expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Finance and Accounting operations
HR / Organizational design
Role and Job Analysis
Leadership and Stakeholder Involvement
Communications planning and management
Supply Chain / Operations
Salesforce effectiveness
Marketing optimization
Pricing/Margin/Mix optimization
Knowledge Management and Transfer
Success at both planning revenue growth and profitability growth initiatives and driving them, operationally
Program management and leadership experience
Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally-focused and externally-focused change/communications strategies
MBA preferred
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Initiative and drive
Critical thinkingEqual Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
