Associate Director - Integration & Separation (Consulting)

Cambridge Credentials Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge Credentials Limited is seeking an Associate Director in Integration and Separation within the Deals function. You will work across pre- and post-deal planning, blueprints, Day 1 readiness and post-deal implementation, leading multiple workstreams and client interactions.

You will manage strategy development, budgets and delivery plans, while guiding multi-disciplinary teams and senior executives through complex engagements with emphasis on value delivery.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years’ experience in a leading strategy house, Big 4, public sector or corporate strategy/development.
• Deep experience in integration and/or separation within a deals environment.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience in managing or supporting high-value business development with senior stakeholders.
• Strong ability to build and commercialise relationships with senior executives.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
• Structured thinking with creativity.
• Ability to talk credibly with C-level clients on industry issues and strategic considerations.
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver actionable recommendations.
• Understanding of market drivers, challenges and opportunities impacting client strategies.

Responsibilities

• Produce and oversee development of initial and final draft outputs ahead of Partner/Director reviews.
• Lead client interactions and provide updates on deliverables.
• Understand operations across functions and interdependencies between organisations.
• Project manage across the engagement programme or multiple workstreams.
• Collaborate with Directors/Partners on engagement strategy, budget and delivery plan.
• Lead wider Firm teams on engagements per scope agreed with Director/Partner.
• Act as Engagement Manager for deal execution projects when appropriate.
• Serve as primary client contact across the engagement.
• Take ownership for delivering high-quality client deliverables and day-to-day leadership.
• Apply deal execution and technology to reduce cost and improve delivery where possible.

Education

Strong academic track record

Job description

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. This role sits within their Deals function, which offers four key proposition areas:

• Separation: 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.
• Synergies: 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. This will include:

• Producing and overseeing development of the initial and final draft updates, outputs and deliverables to required timescale and ahead of Partner / Director review.
• Leading client interactions and updates around the deliverables and outputs of a deal execution engagement.
• Understanding of the operations of a business across all functional areas and understanding the interdependencies between organisations and the transaction workstreams.
• Project managing across the entire engagement programme or a number of different workstreams on such programme.
• Closely working with a respective Director/Partner on an engagement developing engagement strategy, budget, delivery plan etc.
• Leading any wider Firm teams on an engagement in accordance with scope agreed with the respective Director/Partner.

Additional responsibilities:

• Act as Engagement Manager for deal execution projects (where appropriate).
• Act as primary point of contact for the client across overall engagement.
• 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.

Required experience:

• 8-12 years’ experience working in a leading strategy house, Big 4 firm, public sector organisation or strategy / development team in industry.
• Deep experience in integration and/or separation activities with a deals environment.
• Track record of leading complex projects with multi-disciplinary teams in a consulting or corporate environment.
• Experience of managing or supporting high-value business development activities with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable ability to build and commercialise relationships with senior executives.
• Strong academic track record.
• Evidence of strong problem-solving & analytical capabilities.
• Structured thinking skills combined with creativity.
• Ability to talk credibly with C-level clients on the key issues and strategic considerations facing the industry
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed
• 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

Successful applicants will be contacted within 48 hours. Due to the high volumes of responses we are unfortunately not able to respond to those who are unsuccessful.