(Senior) Director - Digital Transformation

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

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal seeks Senior Directors to lead whole transformations for clients through our Digital Transformation team. This is the most senior delivery leadership role, accountable for diagnosis, business case, operating model, programme and outcomes.

You will originate, shape and convert work, lead cross-functional teams, and collaborate directly with CXOs and boards across deals and transformations. The role also focuses on building the practice, recruiting and mentoring Directors and

Qualifications

• 18 years of senior leadership experience, accountable for a whole transformation, not just a workstream.
• Background as an industry operator who has run a business, region or major function.
• Proven track record leading end-to-end transformation delivering a measurable outcome.
• Comfort as a senior client-facing figure with CEOs, boards and investment committees.
• Commercial ownership including originating and converting work or revenue responsibility.
• Sufficient technology and digital literacy to direct architects, engineers and data teams; AI levers welcome but not required.
• Experience transforming under value pressure: turnaround, carve-out, post-merger integration or PE ownership.
• Strong judgement on operating model design and organisational change; collaborative leadership in flat structures.
• Fluency in English is essential; other European languages welcome.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end accountability for a client transformation from diagnosis to sustained operation.
• Act as senior counterpart to client CEO, CFO, COO and board through the programme lifecycle.
• Lead from inside the organisation with interim executive roles and decisive operating decisions.
• Set direction and scope of the transformation, including cost and return expectations.
• Own the business case and ensure the realised value; intervene if the programme drifts.
• Build and lead large mixed A&M and client teams with architects, data and growth experts.
• Navigate political complexity and differing agendas to keep the programme on track.
• Originate, shape and convert new work in your sector and accounts; build personal pipeline.

Skills

Senior leadership

Industry operator

P&L experience

Transformation delivery

Client leadership

Digital literacy

English fluency

Education

Degree in relevant subject

Job description

Description

About A&M:

Companies, investors, lenders and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) when conventional approaches are not enough to activate change and achieve results.

Privately held since 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that delivers performance improvement, turnaround management and business advisory services to organisations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. Our senior professionals are experienced operators, world-class consultants and industry veterans who draw upon the firm’s restructuring heritage to help leaders turn change into a strategic business asset, manage risk and unlock value at every stage.

When action matters, find us at www.alvarezandmarsal.com

About the Team:

Alvarez & Marsal’s Digital and Technology Services (DTS) professionals work with corporate clients, private equity firms and their portfolio companies to drive new forms of value creation, both top and bottom line, across the investment lifecycle. We help clients ideate, incubate and industrialise new business models, from agile target operating models and customer and product innovation through to intelligent, automated back offices, drawing on capabilities spanning digital product management, customer experience design, data and analytics, and AI. Our international team comprises seasoned executives, functional experts and highly skilled consultants working on some of the world’s most high-profile cases.

The Digital Transformation team sits within DTS, alongside Data Intelligence and Business Technology. We help clients understand the capability and impact of digital transformation and technology, shape the vision for the technology and business capabilities they need, and define and deliver the roadmaps that make it real. Our consultants do not only advise; they build alongside cross-functional client teams, operating end to end from problem identification through to a working outcome.

About the Role:

We are recruiting Senior Directors into our Digital Transformation team to lead whole transformations for our clients. This is the most senior delivery leadership role in the team: you take accountability for a transformation in its entirety: the diagnosis, the business case, the operating model, the programme and the outcome. You are the person a client’s executive team holds responsible for it. It is deliberately not a deep technology role. We are looking for operators who have run businesses, regions or major functions and can therefore lead change from inside an organisation, drawing on our architects, data specialists and growth colleagues for technical depth.

You will also help build the practice and the market. Senior Directors carry a sector or account orientation and are expected to originate, shape and convert work as well as deliver it. You will work in a flat team structure with direct access to CXOs and boards, and with the full breadth of A&M’s industry and functional experts available to you, across the full transformation lifecycle with corporates and the full deal cycle with private equity clients, including due diligence, carve-outs, post‑merger integration, turnaround and exit.

Key Responsibilities:

In this role you will:

• Take end-to-end accountability for a client transformation, from diagnosis and business case through to delivered outcome and sustained operation;

• Act as the senior counterpart to the client CEO, CFO, COO and board, and carry that relationship through the life of the programme;

• Lead from inside the organisation where the client needs it, including interim executive roles, and make the operating decisions a transformation demands;

• Set the transformation’s direction and scope: what changes, in what order, at what cost and for what return;

• Own the business case and the value realised against it, and intervene when the programme drifts;

• Build and lead large mixed A&M and client teams, bringing in the right architecture, data, growth and industry specialists from across the firm;

• Navigate the political complexity of senior change: competing agendas, resistance, and decisions that will not be universally popular;

• Originate, shape and convert work in your sector and accounts, carrying personal pipeline and revenue responsibility;

• Lead in a deal context for corporate and private equity clients, including diligence, value creation planning and post‑deal execution;

• Build the practice: develop propositions and eminence, recruit, and coach and sponsor Directors and below;

Qualifications:

Experience and abilities are likely to include:

• A strong degree qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant subject;

• Significant senior leadership experience, typically built over around 18 years, including time accountable for a whole transformation rather than a workstream within one; the scale of what you have led matters more to us than the number of years;

• A background as an industry operator: you have run a business, region or major function, and carry the credibility that comes from having been accountable for a P&L or a large operation;

• A demonstrable record of leading end-to-end transformation through to a delivered outcome, in a senior client-side leadership role and / or in advisory;

• Comfort as the senior client-facing figure with CEOs, boards and investment committees, including when the message is unwelcome;

• Commercial ownership: experience of originating and converting work, or of carrying revenue responsibility in an operating role;

• Sufficient technology and digital literacy to direct architects, engineers and data teams and to judge which digital and AI levers matter; depth in technology is welcome but not required;

• Experience of transformation under value pressure: turnaround, carve‑out, post‑merger integration or private equity ownership;

• Strong organisational judgement, covering operating model and organisation design and how to make change stick with the people who have to live with it;

• A collaborative leadership style that works in a flat structure, with a track record of developing senior talent;

• Fluency in English is essential; additional European language skills are more than welcome.

If you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know and we will make them.

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.