PEPI Senior Associate - Merger Integration & Carve-Outs

About the role

A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) practice focuses on improving operating results at portfolio companies. The Senior Associate role targets high growth in the next 2-4 years, offering excellent opportunities for career advancement and building leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify key client business issues and assist with innovative approaches to address them.
• Evaluate and validate analysis to develop recommendations for the client.
• Assist with various workstreams within the Integration Management Office (IMO) such as synergies, TSAs, blueprinting, day 1 readiness, executive reporting, integration roadmap, communications, organizational design, day 1 and day 100 planning, execution, and performance improvement.
• Drive performance improvement assessments across an enterprise and implement recommendations.
• Track progress against day 1 and day 100 objectives and adjust integration strategies or personnel as needed.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of professional consulting experience, specializing in merger integration, business transformation, and change management.
• Experience in integration planning and divestitures is preferred but not required.
• Deep functional expertise in finance & accounting operations, HR/Organizational design, leadership and stakeholder involvement, communications planning and management, knowledge management and transfer.
• Success in planning and driving revenue and profitability growth initiatives, operationally.
• Program management and leadership experience.
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of change/communications strategies.
• MBA preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Initiative and drive.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of time.