PEPI Manager - Software, Technology & Services (STS) (Open to all US locations)

Description

Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement

Manager - Software, Technology & Services (STS)

Alvarez & Marsal is a leading independent global professional services firm, specializing in providing turnaround management, performance improvement and corporate advisory services, is seeking to expand its Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) - Software, Technology & Services team.

With more than 3,000 professionals based in 40 locations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, our firm excels in problem solving and value creation.

Drawing on a strong operational heritage and hands-on-approach, our professionals work closely with organizations and stakeholders to help tackle complex business issues and maximize value.

A&M's Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) practice, with offices throughout the US, focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged A&M to help improve operating results at their portfolio companies.

The companies we assess are upper middle market in the 50 million to 1 billion plus range.

Our professionals are aligned with a PEPI service line to promote the development of deep functional skills & experiences and to maximize our ability to tailor solutions to solve our clients' business issues.

Our PEPI services include :

• CDD / Strategy
• Interim Management
• Merger Integration & Carve-outs
• Rapid Results
• Supply Chain
• CFO Services

Software, Technology & Services (STS) : Broaden your expertise, build your skillset

This is your opportunity to join A&M PEPI's Software, Technology & Services team and develop an impressive range of operational skills.

Benefiting from early client exposure and learning from some of the top practitioners in the field, you will be involved throughout the lifecycle of some of the largest, most complex and high-profile deals in US.

Our Software, Technology & Services offering brings a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value. We provide corporate and equity buyers with a broad continuum of knowledge and tools for performance management, mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures and alliances.

The team works across the full spectrum of the deal lifecycle from pre-deal operational and synergy reviews to 'Day 1' planning and post deal implementation.

In addition the team has expertise in developing and reviewing restructuring and turnaround plans and identifying operational risks.

Our services include buy-side and sell-side due diligence (commercial, operational), Integration Management Office, synergy, performance improvement, TSA, integration and separation planning, Day 1 Readiness, and post-close execution.

Software, Technology & Services is a growing business targeting high growth in the next 2-4 years.

We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and build leadership skills. The leadership team is focused on providing career development, training and exposure to international business assignments.

Build your skillset by providing valuable insight into how an entire business goes through the change process. And as we help our STS focused PE clients outperform the market, you will add real value too.

All the while, you can broaden your software and technology experience across the STS industry groups and enjoy unlimited opportunities to progress as part of a fast-growing team.

Manager :

• Manager-level responsibilities include : conducting operational due diligence, providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
• Depending on the deal size, managers will lead workstreams or a focus area within the Integration Management Office (IMO) - Synergies, TSAs, Blueprinting, Day 1 Readiness, Executive Reporting, Integration Roadmap, Communications, Organizational Design
• Managers will lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for STS focused PE clients and their portfolio companies
• Day 1 and Day 100 Planning, execution and driving performance improvement in key areas :
• Strategic planning
• Operational optimization / consolidation
• Back office consolidation
• Supply chain
• IT / reporting integration
• Customer and channel management
• Actively driving performance improvement assessments, across an enterprise, and overseeing the implementation of recommendations.
• Tracking progress against Day 1 and Day 100 objectives and adjusting integration strategies or personnel as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with outstanding academic performance; MBA preferred
• 5-8+ years of professional consulting experience with software and technology oriented clients specializing in buy-side and sell-side operational due diligence, synergy assessments, performance improvement, transaction execution (merger integration, separation planning), TSAs, Day 1 Readiness, and post-close execution
• Experience in leading one or more work streams in a business transformation
• Deep functional expertise in one or more of the following areas :
• Finance & Accounting operations
• HR / Organizational design
• Role and Job Analysis
• 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 revenue growth and profitability growth initiatives and driving them, operationally
• Program management and leadership experience
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally-focused and externally-focused change / communications strategies
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Initiative and drive
• Critical thinking skills
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of time

The salary range is $125,000 - $190,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography.

In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance.

Please ask your recruiter for details.

Full-time Positions and Part-time Positions Over 30 hours

Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings' fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined from time to time as well as a 401(k) retirement plan.

Provided the eligibility requirements are met, employees will also receive a discretionary contribution to their 401(k) from Alvarez & Marsal.

Additionally, employees are eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, seventy-two (72) hours of sick time (prorated for part time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave.

The amount of vacation and personal days available varies based on tenure and role type. Click here for more information regarding A&M's benefits programs.

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