Associate Director, Advancement

Our client is a global and well-known advisory firm that offers flexible working, a stand-out culture and opportunities to progress based on merit. Supporting vendors to plan and deliver a credible, discrete standalone entity to the Buyer with value preserved and business continuity in place from Day 1, including supporting the definition and implementation of transitional service agreements. Integration : Pre and post deal integration design, planning and implementation to integrate the target business into the Buyer’s organisation whilst mitigating risk and enhancing value. Understanding the potential benefits and costs generated through a proposed transaction, and the associated plans, interdependencies, risks and issues for the delivery of base and stretch case targets. Joint Ventures : Helping respective partners ensure the key value considerations are identified and prioritised early and delivered through the associated business plan, leveraging each party’s specific contribution and capabilities and managing broader stakeholder relationships. As an associate director within Integration and Separation you will be working in a transaction environment which may be pre or post deal, and can range from early planning, developing summary or fully detailed and costed “blueprint plans”, planning for Day 1, planning post deal implementation, and ultimately supporting execution. Project managing across the entire engagement programme or a number of different workstreams on such programme. Act as Engagement Manager for deal execution projects (where appropriate). Take full ownership for delivering high quality client deliverables and provides day-to-day leadership for the team on the ground. Deploy deal execution and technology on their projects, to reduce cost and improve client delivery where appropriate. Track record of leading complex projects with multi-disciplinary teams in a consulting or corporate environment. ~ Strong academic track record. ~ An understanding of the market drivers, challenges and opportunities impacting our client’s strategies and priorities, enabling them to position solutions and ideas which take these into account