Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions Services (M&A) Managers, Directors, And Senior Directors – Corporate Performance Improvement Team

Description

Who We Are

With a heritage in corporate restructuring and turnaround, A&M is accustomed to high-stakes projects that provide hands-on value to clients. This is the backbone to the grit that is typical of A&M’s resources. Since its inception, A&M has evolved from a boutique player to the premier independent global professional services firm with a reputation for providing leadership, problem-solving and value-creation to under-performing and robust companies across the industry spectrum.

Alvarez and Marsal’s Corporate Merger & Acquisition Services (CMAS) practice brings a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value throughout the M&A deal cycle. We provide corporate clients with deep leadership and expertise in all phases of mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and divestitures.

Our CMAS practice is growing rapidly which means there is a unique opportunity to be creative and entrepreneurial to help shape the foundation of our future. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and provide opportunities to build critical leadership skills. The CMAS leadership team is focused on career development, training, and exposure to some of the most challenging and complex deals in the marketplace.

Who You’ll Be Working With

CMAS practitioners are problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience.

They are hands-on, entrepreneurial, open minded, high achieving, and collaborative individuals who go the extra mile and deliver gold standard work for their teammates and clients. They are often leaders amongst their peers with the confidence to approach internal and external problems head-on and the grit to execute highly complex, value add initiatives in intense situations. A&M and CMAS pride themselves on promoting an inclusive and connected practice which builds leaders and teams that are trusted by executives to assess and drive high-stakes and sustained performance improvement.

We are looking for seasoned professionals with experience in M&A transactions. The ideal candidate will have a background in one or more of the following areas:

• Divestiture and carve-out planning and execution
• Operational due diligence (ODD)
• Synergy development, planning, and execution
• Merger and acquisition integration planning and execution

Key Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to involve other A&M business units to drive greater value for our clients
• Practice Development: Develop “thought-ware” and point-of-view documents. Participate in CMAS internal initiatives
• Supply chain
• Transition Service Agreement (TSA) scoping and management
• Day 1 readiness / 100 Day planning
• Business Development: Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for new business activities
• Lead and deliver ODD engagements including:
• IT / reporting integration
• Lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions
• Synergy development and analysis
• Executive reporting
• People Development: Perform role of coach, provide input, and actively participate in the recruiting process
• Customer and channel management
• Plan, execute, and drive performance improvement in a M&A environment in one or more of the following areas:
• Operational optimization / consolidation
• Define the end state operating model and high-level steps to achieve it
• Business process blueprinting
• G&A consolidation
• Manage the Integration Management Office (IMO) or Separation Management Office (SMO), a focus area within the IMO/SMO or a functional workstream including:
• Development of integration/separation roadmaps
• Effectively manage teams and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance and quality deliverables
• Identify deal risks and develop mitigating action plans
• Identify and quantify top-down synergies, dis-synergies, and cost to achieve

Qualifications And Skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and operate under ambiguity
• Ability to apply critical thinking to bring order to unstructured problems
• Fundamental understanding of the Change Management function and its importance in the M&A life cycle, including communications and organization design
• 5-20 years of relevant professional consulting and / or operational experience, specializing in operational due diligence, merger integration, divestitures/ carve-outs, and synergy capture and analysis
• Experience in leading more than one work stream in a transaction
• Ability to communicate confidently in a clear, concise, and articulate manner - verbally and in written form
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of the time
• Experience with financial model and scenario planning
• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA a plus
• Demonstrated program management and leadership of complex initiatives / projects

The following are the annual base salary ranges, commensurate with experience: Consultant: $90,000-$135,000; Manager: $135,000-$165,000; Director: $150,000-$205,000; Senior Director: $175,000-$245,000. 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.