Turnaround / Chief Restructuring Office

Value Driven Solutions, Inc.; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 258,000 - 517,000; Full time

Job summary

Value Driven Solutions, Inc. seeks a seasoned senior leader to manage liquidity, stabilize operations, and execute restructuring under tight timelines. You will decide on product lines, debt renegotiations, site closures, or asset sale preparation in a distressed context.

You will interact with lenders, creditors, and boards, delivering rapid, data-driven analyses and decisive actions that safeguard value and drive a successful turnaround.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of senior operating or financial leadership with direct turnaround or restructuring accountability.
• Multiple completed distressed engagements — this role is not a first turnaround.

Responsibilities

• Immediate liquidity management and cash conservation.
• 13-week cash flow as the primary operating instrument.
• Lender, creditor, and stakeholder negotiation and communication.
• Product line and customer profitability analysis, and the divestiture or exit decisions that follow.
• Cost structure reduction, including headcount and footprint actions.
• Debt restructuring, forbearance, and amendment negotiation.
• Contingency planning, including 363 sale or Chapter 11 preparation where applicable.
• Board, sponsor, and lender reporting under high scrutiny.

Job description

Contract | 6–12 months | Day rate + expenses | Travel M–F, CONUS

The mandate

A distressed manufacturing asset needs someone with authority to make hard decisions quickly. You are placed to manage liquidity, stabilize the business, and execute the restructuring — whether that means exiting product lines, renegotiating debt, closing sites, or preparing an asset for sale.

This is not a coaching role. You will make decisions that affect people's jobs, and you will make them on a compressed timeline with incomplete information.

What you'll own

• Immediate liquidity management and cash conservation
• 13-week cash flow as the primary operating instrument
• Lender, creditor, and stakeholder negotiation and communication
• Product line and customer profitability analysis, and the divestiture or exit decisions that follow
• Cost structure reduction, including headcount and footprint actions
• Debt restructuring, forbearance, and amendment negotiation
• Contingency planning, including 363 sale or Chapter 11 preparation where applicable
• Board, sponsor, and lender reporting under high scrutiny

What you bring

• 15+ years of senior operating or financial leadership, with direct turnaround or restructuring accountability
• Multiple completed distressed engagements — this role is not a first turnaround