PEPI Director - Merger Integration & Carve outs (Open to all US locations)

About the role

Join Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) team, focusing on upper middle market and large cap private equity firms. The team specializes in merger integrations and carve-outs, IT pre- and post-acquisition diligence, commercial due diligence, strategy, supply chain, CFO services, and more.

Responsibilities

• Identify key client business issues and determine client needs using innovative approaches.
• Evaluate and validate analysis to develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Lead the entire Integration Management Office (IMO) or a focus area within the IMO, such as synergies, TSA, blueprinting, Day 1 Readiness, executive reporting, integration roadmap, communications, organizational design.
• Provide interim functional management as required, leading Day 1 and Day 100 Planning, execution, and driving performance improvement in key areas like strategic planning, operational optimization, back office consolidation, supply chain, IT/reporting integration, customer and channel management.
• Drive performance improvement assessments across an enterprise and adjust integration strategies or personnel as needed.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.
• Lead small engagements or components of large, complex engagements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional consulting experience, specializing in merger integration, divestitures, business transformation, and change management.
• Experience in integration planning and divestitures (not required).
• Deep functional expertise in finance & accounting operations, HR/Organizational design, leadership and stakeholder involvement, communications planning and management, supply chain/operations, Salesforce effectiveness, marketing optimization, pricing/margin/mix optimization, knowledge management and transfer.
• Success in planning and driving revenue and profitability growth initiatives operationally.
• Experience in program management and leadership.
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of change/communications strategies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Initiative and drive, critical thinking skills, flexibility to travel at least 75% of the time.

Benefits

Full-time positions and part-time positions are offered with benefits including healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, and paid time off including vacation, personal days, sick time, federal holidays, and parental leave. The salary range is $150,000 - $225,000 annually, with a discretionary bonus program based on individual and firm performance.