Growth Advisory Managing Director - Manufacturing - Operations & Performance

Growth Advisory Managing Director Manufacturing Operations & Performance

As a Growth Advisory Managing Director, you’ll help manufacturing clients create a practical strategy that guides their organization’s transformation as it adapts to meet their vision and goals all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

We support our client’s ambitions to achieve sustainable growth and improve profitability through the right blend of collaborative design and subject matter expertise.

Our solutions help clients activate market intelligence insights, sharpen strategy designs, prioritize demand generation investments, develop products and services, and realize strategic intent through enterprise operating model design.

This enables our clients to rapidly activate enterprise priorities and establish a solid foundation for business transformation.

Our Manufacturing Growth Advisory professionals bring a tailored approach to help develop and operationalize strategies to scale and create specific tactics that trigger transformation.

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Growth Advisory team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include :

• Working as part of a cross functional leadership team to manage, execute and deliver Growth Advisory services for the Operations & Performance capability
• Serving as an advisor to our clients in support of their strategic initiatives
• Effectively managing ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations, demonstrating strong analytical skills
• Constructing pragmatic approaches and frameworks to develop long-term business strategies
• Performing accurate analysis and design effective solutions to a variety of client issues
• Communicating effectively in a structured and knowledgeable manner in written and verbal formats to stakeholders
• Managing business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and / or other thought leadership material
• Meeting or exceeding sales targets for new, follow-on and pursuit team work
• Performing engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management
• Leading business development activities, such as identification, proposal development and other pursuit activities at clients
• Serving as a coach and mentor to more junior employees in support of their professional development
• Meeting or exceeding targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in required; Master’s a plus; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 13 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross industry clients at a national level
• Relevant approved certification required; if you do not possess one before starting in the role, you must be willing to earn one within 18 months of starting with Grant Thornton
• Relevant experience working with manufacturing industry clients required
• Deep knowledge of manufacturing industry and private equity sector strategy, operational, and cultural attributes required
• Must be able to perform quantitative and qualitative research and analysis; must possess deep familiarity with primary and secondary research techniques
• Demonstrated new business development experience required
• Must be able to demonstrate creative problem-solving skills, critical thinking aptitude, and experience with data modeling and / or process mapping
• Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills with experience working in cross-functional teams
• Effective project and time management skills for handling multiple priorities and simultaneous projects
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 60%

The base salary range for this position in New York, NY is between $264,600 - $491,400.

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