Director - Operations & Supply Chain

Alvarez & Marsal; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Director (m/f/d) in Supply Chain to lead and transform client supply chains across manufacturing, distribution, and logistics. The role focuses on developing improvement opportunities, driving profitability, and delivering structured change within complex corporate portfolios.

You will work with private equity clients and portfolio companies, leveraging A&M’s PEPI practice to stabilize operations and accelerate value creation while collaborating with management

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of combined consulting and industry operating experience.
• Master’s degree is essential.
• Fluency in English and German is essential.
• Experience with supply chain analytics and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of a client’s supply chain including manufacturing and distribution locations and baseline costs.
• Develop structured approaches to assessing improvement opportunities and define strategies.
• Analyze supply chain network design and footprints including cost and capacity.
• Assess inventory planning processes and optimize service levels and working capital.
• Lead transformation plans for transportation, warehousing and distribution and estimate benefits.
• Implement and oversee deliverables and manage day-to-day client relationships.

Education

Master’s degree

Tools

Llamasoft

Job description

Description

Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement

Director (m/f/d) - Supply Chain

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.

With over 11,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

A&M's Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) practice focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged A&M to diligence potential acquisition targets in pre-deal situations as well as help improve operating results at their portfolio companies. Our area of expertise is integrated pre-deal due diligence assistance and supporting performing companies to deliver a growth strategy as well as supporting under-performing with a need to reorganize or take costs out. Working directly with company management, A&M helps stabilize financial and operational performance by developing and implementing comprehensive profitability and working capital improvement measures.

A&M’s Supply Chain professionals assist our clients in analyzing each part of the supply chain process including: Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, Logistics and Distribution, Integrated Demand and Supply Planning to identify value creation opportunities, develop a roadmap to accelerate those opportunities and assist with driving them to our client’s bottom line. From our thorough fact-based analysis, we assess the state of the supply chain, identify key risks to investment and quantify potential EBITDA improvement plans.

The PEPI Supply Chain group is a growing business with high growth projected throughout the next two to four years. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and build leadership skills. The leadership team is focused on providing development opportunities, training and exposure to international and domestic business assignments.

Professional Experience

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of a client’s supply chain including manufacturing and distribution locations, baseline of product flow and seasonality, detailed operating costs, key supply chain processes in sourcing, planning, and operations.


• Develop a structured approach to assessing potential improvement opportunities, and conduct required analysis to define potential supply chain strategies and tactics to meet growth and financial objectives.


• Analyze supply chain network design and footprints:


• Baseline warehousing and distribution network cost structure and capacity utilization


• Profile supply chain processes and inventory flows throughout the network


• Analyze network optimization opportunities for cost, inventory, and service delivery (experience with modeling software such as Llamasoft or other preferred):


• Optimal number and location of distribution centers / network configuration


• Assess inventory planning processes and systems and recommend potential improvement opportunities for optimizing service levels and inventory working capital requirements.


• Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes in transportation, freight optimization, warehousing & distribution, and develop implementation plan and estimated range and timing of benefits (OPEX / inventory / service delivery)


• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.


• Ability to both conduct analysis and lead teams to conduct analysis

Professional Skills

• Strong written, oral, and analytical skills


• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills with excellent presentation skills


• Ability to deliver time-pressured projects on-time and on-quality

Qualifications

• 10-15 plus years of combined consulting and industry operating experience


• Preference for industry leadership roles within Supply Chain / Distribution and Logistics


• Previous distribution and logistics analysis / advisory experience within industry, consulting, or 3PL environment


• Experience in leading or modeling supply chains using software support tools (e.g. Llamasoft, etc.)


• Master’s degree from an accredited university is essential


• Fluency to a native level in both written and verbal English and German is essential