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

About the role

The Merger Integration & Carve-outs (MI&C) service line at Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) focuses on helping private equity firms improve operating results at their portfolio companies. This role involves providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, developing recommendations, and leading workstreams or focus areas within the Integration Management Office (IMO).

Responsibilities

• Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs, and developing recommendations.
• Evaluate and validate analysis.
• Lead workstreams or focus areas within the IMO, such as synergies, TSA, blueprinting, day 1 readiness, executive reporting, integration roadmap, communications, organizational design.
• Lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions.
• Drive performance improvement in key areas like strategic planning, operational optimization, back office consolidation, supply chain, IT/reporting integration, customer and channel management.
• Track progress against day 1 and day 100 objectives and adjust integration strategies or personnel as needed.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of professional consulting experience, specializing in merger integration, 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 at both planning and driving revenue/growth initiatives, program management and leadership experience.
• MBA preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Initiative and drive.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of time.