Associate Director - Deal Strategy & Commercial Due Diligence - Retail, Consumer & Leisure (Consulting)

Our global consulting client\’s Strategy function continues to grow at pace and they are seeking someone exceptional to join as a senior manager / assistant director in their Retail, Consumer and Leisure team. This person our client seeks will have significant commercial due diligence, deal strategy and private equity experience, however our client also values people with additional experience in propositions such as growth strategy, cost and operational strategy and enterprise wide transformation.

Exceptional experienced managers (circa 2 1/2 – 4 years of experience at this level) can be taken in to consideration for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Take a leadership role with the team and to hold a high quality, credible reputation with clients and in the broader market – experience of a range of M&A related projects will be critical, eg Commercial DD, M&A Strategy, Value creation, etc.
• Design and run mid-sized to large projects and / or very large, complex workstreams.
• Act as primary client liaison on Firm engagements and act as an \’ambassador\’ for the firm.
• Produce client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require minimal review.
• Develop solutions to complex problems and challenge the thinking of more senior colleagues and clients.
• Help design – and guide junior staff to – execute detailed financial / business models performing complex scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Identify go-to-market and marketing opportunities and assume day-to-day responsibility for taking these to clients.
• Maintain active contact with mid-level clients outside of engagement situations.
• Show initiative to identify and drive thought leadership and knowledge management activities.
• Take day-to-day responsibility that the firm\’s risk management frameworks are adhered to.
• Actively seek out leadership opportunities, take responsibility for a selection of internal processes and generally act as a leader in the S&PT and an inspiration to more junior team members.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to other team members.
• Lead on practice development activities to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.

Person requirements:

• Extensive experience working in a leading strategy consulting business, Big 4 firm or strategy / Corporate Development team in industry.
• Strong foundational understanding of the value drivers across the broadly defined Consumer sector: Consumer Goods, Retail & Travel & Leisure businesses – and views on the future outlook for this sector.
• Experience of leading mid-sized and large projects: designing work plans, team structures and then managing these to (i) excellent client output and (ii) strong project economics.
• This should include an extensive coverage of recent M&A transactions, eg CDD, VDD, M&A Strategy or Value Creation projects in the Consumer sector.
• Evidence of taking responsibility for designing proposals, scopes and pricing for mid-sized and large consulting assignments.
• Pro-active role in business development activity, designing client ready pitches, generating differentiated insights and holding personal client relationships.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with team members and broader (internal and external) stakeholders.
• Strong track record of building followership among more junior staff members.
• Non-client facing roles in driving practice forward in areas such as team management, training, technical tool development, liaison with service suppliers etc.

Successful applicants will be contacted within 24 hours to discuss in more detail

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