Managing Director - Consumer Products / Supply Chain expert

Europe

The Firm

Alvarez & Marsal ("A&M") is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c.6000+ staff and 65 offices around the globe. It delivers a broad range of professional services including Operational & Financial Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services. Our lean, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients while living our core values of integrity, quality, fun, objectivity, inclusive diversity, and personal reward.

The Team

Our highly respected pan EMEA team is built on deep industry sector expertise with a demonstrably differentiated ability to address the most complex business problems and deliver dramatic and sustainable business performance improvements. The Consumer and Retail Group (CRG) provides clients with solutions to complex business issues in the key areas of large-scale transformation and restructuring, pre-deal commercial and operational M&A advice, post-merger integration, carve-out, 100-day improvement plan, quantified EBITDA / cash improvements, comprehensive bottom-up assessment, market and portfolio strategy, feasibility studies and, interim leadership. The team brings unrivalled experience from both in-industry leadership roles and advisory roles and works hand-in-hand with sector experts in related A&M expert practices as one team for clients.

The Role

With continued growth, we are looking for a Managing Director (equivalent to Partner level) with deep subject matter expertise of Supply Chain in the Consumer Products sector . As MD you will be responsible for:

• Executing the vision and direction for the continuing growth of Consumer Products and Supply Chain in Europe.


• Building a robust yet flexible plan to generate deal flow and sustained repeat business, externally and internally.


• Developing and executing a specific strategy focused on target clients and distinctive go-to-market propositions.


• Assimilating and leveraging existing capability at A&M, both within the Corporate and Private Equity teams.


• Attracting and hiring experienced professionals to drive growth in key European geographies.


• On the ground leadership to help clients address tough business issues requiring business transformation and operational restructuring (company-wide transformation, post-merger integration, carve-out, Rapid Results ™/ 100-day improvement plan, quantified EBITDA / cash improvements, comprehensive bottom-up assessment and, interim leadership).


• Coordinating across the broader A&M in Europe and globally in terms of Key Account Management for Corporate clients.


• Continuing to build the profile and reputation of the Firm as a world-class strategic transformation advisor to leading businesses.

The requirements

You must be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Be a high-energy and successful leader in a professional services firm or similar.


• Proven track record in the areas of Supply Chain and Consumer Products.


• Extensive knowledge and experience in business transformation including strategy, operational restructuring, finance transformation and performance improvement.


• Preferably, operational experience as executive in a significant consumer products business and/or Supply Chain function.


• Bring proven ability in growing a successful Consumer and/or Supply Chain practice group within a major advisory firm. Advisory experience will likely be from a top tier strategy firm, a specialist restructuring firm or management consultancy. Alternatively, the successful candidate may have held a COO or similar senior SC line management role within a business of significant size, scale and complexity.


• Have a significant and well-developed network across major European geographies.


• Have a demonstrable track record in converting business contacts and leads into sustainable, profitable revenue streams.


• Bring a breadth of Consumer sector experience especially in such areas as Consumer Electronics or Household, Other subsectors would be considered.


• Bring a breadth of SC experience especially in such areas as SC strategy and transformation, S&OP, network optimisation, cost to service and, distribution, logistics and warehousing.


• Proven evidence of delivering state of the art solutions to ever evolving and often unpredictable business issues in the sectors.


• Clear determination to deliver the latest thinking in sector solutions within a highly competitive advisory marketplace.

Soft Skills

• Hands-on and non-hierarchical operator who is equally effective in managing up and down and relates well at all levels and cultures.


• Strong facilitation skills, forging consensus around credible, executable solutions.


• Passionate about affecting real change.


• Reads people accurately; can diagnose strengths, weaknesses, and potential; knows what skills are required to fill a job or role; hires the best.


• Excellent written and oral communications skills, confident and impactful presenter.


• Objective, fact-based approach to problem solving.


• Driven by values and integrity, talks straight, builds confidence and leads by example.


• The ability to manage a multiple stakeholder environment within a privately-owned business.


• Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, and uncertain environment.


• Experience of living and working in Europe, specifically the UK, is essential.

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work-guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity-are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity and we foster inclusiveness. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

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