Managers & Senior Managers – Transaction Services

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. Our sole focus is unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 37 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly growing commercial due diligence team at Simon Kucher in the UK. Simon Kucher is one of the fastest growing strategy consultancies in the world, helping clients address key strategic issues such as revenue growth and pricing. We recently expanded our focus to also address the commercial due diligence requirements of our private equity and corporate clients, helping them invest in the right businesses, where they can create value for all stakeholders.

Since launching our TSPE team three years ago, the practice has grown rapidly, recording substantial double-digit growth each year. We have ambitious plans to continue this growth in the coming years and are looking to hire experienced CDD Managers and Senior Managers to help drive this. This is a chance to be in a very fast-growth business – to help shape the business, grow the team and work for leading private equity clients, addressing their most important questions.

At the same time, you will have the benefit of being part of wider Simon Kucher, a globally recognised brand. While commercial due diligence is the key focus of the team, we work collaboratively with other parts of Simon Kucher, and therefore you will have the opportunity to also work on non-deal engagements related to areas such as M&A strategy, market reviews, revenue growth, pricing, marketing efficiency and digital strategy.

How you will create impact:

• Support leading mid and large-cap PE clients, as well as corporates, to invest in the right businesses.
• Managing workstreams or wider projects, and building the skills and capabilities of those in your team.
• Brainstorming, alongside the team, the key deal hypotheses, and how to address these as part of the work.
• Carrying out analysis of market and competitor dynamics to provide assurance to our clients about market scale, growth and trends, and competitive positioning of different companies.
• Designing the approach to gaining customer insight, to understand customer behaviour and perceptions of different companies.
• Presenting both internally and to the client to support decision making.
• Building and maintaining relationships with clients.
• Working on cross-border projects with other Simon Kucher offices around the world.
• Broader engagement with the development of the team and market activities, business development, recruitment, marketing and in the early stages as we grow our work.

Your profile:

• Substantial experience within strategy consulting or in the strategy / M&A function of a corporate, with significant experience of carrying out commercial due diligence engagements.
• Exceptional project management skills and experience of building high performing teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills alongside experience in carrying out market and competitor analysis, assessment of company performance etc.
• A passion for commercial issues and value creation.
• Extremely articulate, with the ability to take complex ideas and make them simple and compelling.
• A strong desire to work in a fast paced commercially agile environment.

What we offer:

• Work within a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity.
• Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning opportunities.
• Push your development with support from our holistic feedback and development processes.
• Hybrid work, mixing your work location between our London office, client sites, and the option to remote work for an element of your time.
• Enjoy our range of benefits and our focus on your wellbeing.