Performance Director

About the role

AlixPartners is a leading global consulting firm that solves complex and critical challenges. We move quickly from analysis to action when it really matters, creating value that has a lasting impact on companies, their people, and the communities they serve. We promote an inclusive environment and are committed to enhancing diversity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects and client engagements, analyzing corporate performance, driving cost reductions, revenue growth, and profitability improvement in your industry or functional area(s) of expertise.
• Work with others to develop and build a business in your area(s) of expertise.
• Structure and lead client engagements to desired results, meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• Adapt to complex client environments and situations, define, communicate, motivate, and inspire change at executive levels and across the broader community of stakeholders.
• Define, align, and scale data modeling & management approach with client needs, ensuring rapid conclusion drawing.
• Identify and cultivate new opportunities, generate growing demand for other firm resources in prospective and existing clients, and identify and mitigate project and workstream risks.

Requirements

• Minimum 15+ years of business experience or equivalent.
• 5+ years of related consulting experience in a professional services firm environment preferred.
• Recognized for deep skills and passion as a specialist in specific industries/service(s) areas.
• Consistent track record of successfully structuring and leading client engagements to desired results, delivering hard dollar savings meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• High energy style, flexible and adaptive, with the ability to work well in a very fast-paced environment.
• Understands and adapts to complex client environments and situations.
• Skilled at defining, communicating, motivating, and inspiring change at executive levels and across the broader community of stakeholders.
• Master negotiator, proficient with complex/sophisticated negotiations.
• Views problems from the 'big picture POV', recognizes critical areas to drive into more detail, quickly structures approaches to solve complex problems, balanced and flexible, anticipates and changes direction as necessary, synthesizes information rapidly and applies good business discernment driving quickly to deep insights into possible impacts and solutions, creative with the development of new tools, methodologies and approaches, effectively plans for and actively mitigates risks on projects and workstreams.
• Experience with proposal development, strong commercial instincts and interest, generates growing demand for other firm resources in prospective and existing clients, identifies and cultivates new opportunities, expert written communication skills, self-directed with preparation of client-ready documents and presentation development, articulate, persuasive, communicator, commands the room, handles executive and difficult audiences well, readily adapts style and message appropriately to audience and circumstance, excellent at impromptu communication under pressure, extraordinary customer service and interpersonal skills, engenders client confidence and trust with executives at all levels, builds counseling relationships with clients and peers, analytical, adept at quickly defining, aligning, and scaling data modeling & management approach with the client needs, ensures 80/20 approach to rapidly draw conclusions, skilled and quickly identifying anomalies, inconsistencies, errors and conclusions.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or foreign equivalent.
• Master’s degree and/or certification in related specialty area(s) preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Willingness to work outside of normal U.S. business hours, and in particular as unique projects/needs arise.
• Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or foreign equivalent.
• Master’s degree and/or certification in related specialty area(s) preferred.

Skills

• Business Development
• Client Management
• Project Management
• Data Modeling
• Negotiation
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Analysis
• Leadership
• Communication

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program including health, vision, dental, disability, 401K, tuition reimbursement, identity theft protection, and mental wellness support.
• Generous paid leave policy including vacation/personal time starting at 7.34 hours per pay period, sick time up to 80 hours annually, parental leave, and twelve holidays.

Pay

The salary range for this role takes into account a number of factors and is between $170,000/year - $400,000/year with eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.

Schedule

This is a full-time Director position. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.