Senior Manager at Alvarez and Marsal

Job Description

Company Profile:
Alvarez & Marsal is a leading global professional services firm specializing in providing performance improvement, turnaround management and corporate advisory services. With over 10,000 professionals based across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, our firm excels in problem solving and value creation. Drawing on a strong operational heritage and hands-on-approach, our professionals work closely with organizations and stakeholders to help tackle complex business issues and maximize value.
Our India office, offers clients Performance Improvement, Turnaround and Restructuring Advisory, and Transaction Advisory Services to PE firms, Corporates and banks. Additionally, A&M brings industry expertise to India in a range of sectors, including Consumer, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Industrial, technology, transportation & infrastructure, Metals & Mining and Energy.
Team Profile:
Alvarez & Marsal’s Business Transformation Services (BTS) practice works with a wide variety of clients across business sectors globally, to develop and execute growth and business transformation plans
The practice covers varied sectors such as healthcare, financial services, real estate, transportation & logistics, consumer packaged goods & retail, automotive, energy & services, industrial goods, aviation and metals & mining
The practice is comprised of highly trained and experienced cross-disciplinary advisers with industry, operations, Information Technology and finance backgrounds
The Digital Technology & Transformation Services Team within BTS works in two specific areas:
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) transactions (pre-deal tech diligence, day 1-100 planning & execution)
Performance Improvement using large scale business/ digital transformation programs to achieve organic growth and/or improve EBITDA
This team consists of highly trained and experienced tech experts across customer experience and digital strategy, digital technology and solutions, enterprise IT, data analytics, automation, IT infrastructure and cyber security

Job Roles & Responsibilities:
General
Meticulous attention to detail, a sense of curiosity, and the ability to learn quickly, and a dedication to customer satisfaction
Collaborate with colleagues, identify and implement opportunities for improved effectiveness, efficiency and risk mitigation

Project Management
Plan and execute tasks effectively by prioritizing various activities within the team
Capture and record time and costs incurred on each project every week
Ensure the timely delivery of work allocated
Ensure timely actions on feedback by clients/ Director/ Managing Director

Delivery Excellence
Experience of leading large, complex, global delivery programs
Research in-depth and generate reliable data
Distill insights from analyses by identifying second order implications
Systematically break down the problem into relevant focus areas
Develop a quick understanding of clients’ business and their drivers
Discern patterns of complex diligence matters and provide correct understanding
Manage complex engagements, including commercials, resourcing and risk

Client Management
Adept at building strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers
Set clear and unambiguous expectations for deliverables
Manage client expectations and make changes accordingly
Earn client’s trust by displaying superior work ethic with utmost importance on client confidentiality
Satisfy client expectations by delivering superior quality work
Track record in business development with strong external networks

Communication and Soft skills
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Experience of delivering high-quality reports and presentations
Engage audience by responding effectively & succinctly
Narrative building capability to distill complex ideas into a compelling story
Experience leading practice development initiatives and training programs
Ability to act as an inspiring leader in a particular sector / industry
Strong team leadership skills, particularly teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, coupled with the ability to manage and develop juniors
Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences

Basic Qualifications:
MBA/ PGDM with B. Tech from a reputed institute with a technology background

Experience:
Required:
10-12 years of prior experience with an IT technology / consulting organization, professional services / consulting from a management consultancy, IT services firm
Experience in M&A transactions, specifically in pre-deal (IT Due diligence and red flag reports) and/or post-deal IT integration, carveout / separation across areas such as Applications, Infrastructure, IT TSA Costing & Analysis, IT Operating model, PMO support
IT project execution experience with an in-depth knowledge of IT project life cycle
Analytically strong, with the ability to identify opportunities and develop new business with external clients
Flexibility to travel, as required by business

Preferred:
Experience of cloud infrastructure strategy and cyber security fundamentals
Experience of enterprise applications strategy and IT operating model
Experience of digital strategy and customer experience design & implementation
Experience working in pre-sales / solution design