PEPI: Manager, Operations & Manufacturing (OPEN TO ALL U.S. LOCATIONS)

About the role

A&M is a global consulting firm focusing on serving middle market and large cap private equity firms. Our Operations professionals assist clients in manufacturing and distribution operations, supply chain, procurement, SG&A operations, and sales force effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of a target’s manufacturing and distribution operations—organization design, production capacity, efficiency, quality, planning, warehousing, and team capability.
• Evaluate the maintainability and operability of production facilities.
• Review current and historical data to understand efficiency & capacity, including equipment conditions, maintenance logs, spare parts, and detailed production numbers.
• Talk with employees and customers to review all available data and provide shop floor insights.
• Identify potential cost improvement opportunities through lean improvements, outsourcing, or consolidation of facilities.
• Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes and identify key risks and mitigation strategies.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of professional industry experience, with a minimum of 4 years specializing in manufacturing and/or distribution functions.
• Deep functional expertise in one or more of the following areas: Supply Chain Operations, Manufacturing Operations, SI&OP, Footprint Optimization, Plant Consolidation and Product Line Transfer, Manufacturing Strategy, CapEx Planning, Manufacturing 4.0/IIoT, Lean, Six Sigma, TOC, and Value Engineering.
• Demonstrated track record working with C-suite executives as well as private equity deal and operating partners.
• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis.
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally-focused and externally-focused change/communications strategy.
• Previous strategy and change management experience.
• MBA a plus.