Director - Merger & Acquisition Operations

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Merger and Acquisition Integration practice, within Delivering Deal Value Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value on their deal transactions by solving transformational and complex challenges. We focus on all operational aspects of a transaction, pre and post completion. We conduct pre deal and confirmatory due diligence, execute large scale enterprise wide integrations, and support complex divestitures and separations on a wide range of functional areas such as Information Technology, Operations, Human Capital, Finance, and other back office functions.

Our team helps our clients undergoing post deal integration turn complex data into actionable business intelligence. As part of the team, you'll help with data analytics, modelling, benchmarking, and visualisation.

How will you value-add?

As a Director, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Carry out detailed analysis of target data and practices with regards to supply chain management, enabling the identification of key issues and opportunities of improvement;
2. Interact with target management, developing an understanding of the business supporting;
3. Develop and maintain relationships with clients;
4. Identify service opportunities and work with relevant functional specialists (across different Business Units/Lines of Services) to sell these opportunities to clients;
5. Develop our service offering to continuously match market requirements;
6. Carry out business development activities;
7. Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary;
8. Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations;
9. Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions;
10. Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments;
11. Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders;
12. Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.

About You

1. Bachelor’s degree or above from a reputable university or foreign institution, preferably with specialization in engineering, supply chain or operations management;
2. MBA or equivalent will be a plus;
3. Minimum 12 years of experience combining managing roles in an external consulting firm and industry experience in management roles of operational functions ranging from procurement, sales operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, strategic and performance programs;
4. Solid experience and proven track record in designing and leading the delivery of performance improvement projects with tangible impact on Ebitda and cash flows (e.g. G&A cost optimisation, manufacturing footprint rationalization, purchasing cost optimisation, labour productivity enhancement);
5. Experience in post-merger integration and/or divestiture projects will be a plus;
6. Excellent business sense and commercially aware, ideally with some level of financial accounting awareness to be able to link operational improvement to financial statements;
7. Strong project management skills and stakeholder management skills;
8. Innovative, confident, and mature with good ability to develop impactful PowerPoint slides;
9. Bright, team player who can work effectively under pressure and independently.