Managers & Senior Managers – Transaction Services

Managers & Senior Managers – Transaction Services – The Netherlands

Let’s build the winning team: join Simon-Kucher’s Dutch Transaction Services team as a founding member to build the winning proposition and team.

Simon-Kucher is one of the fastest growing global strategy consultancies in the world, helping clients address key strategic issues such as revenue growth and pricing. We have expanded our focus to also address the commercial due diligence requirements of our private equity and corporate clients, helping them invest in the right businesses, where they can create value for all stakeholders.

Simon-Kucher has seen enormous success, quadrupling revenues in the past 10 years, and we have huge ambitions for our Transaction Services business unit. We have already recruited a highly respected senior deals Partner to lead the team in The Netherlands, starting in February, and we are building up the broader team in parallel.

This is a chance to be in a very high-growth business, right from the start – to help shape the business, grow the team and serve some of the best clients, addressing their most important questions. All this without the risk of a start-up, given Simon-Kucher is a globally recognised brand with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries worldwide. Our core values include integrity, respect, team spirit, and entrepreneurship.

Whilst commercial due diligence for Private Equity and Corporates will be the key focus of the team, we will work collaboratively with other parts of Simon-Kucher, and therefore you will have the opportunity to also work on non-deal engagements related to areas such as M&A strategy, market reviews, revenue growth, pricing, marketing efficiency and digital strategy.

In launching this new team we are now looking for Managers & Senior Managers to join our Amsterdam office.

The role and its impact:

• Be a core pillar and founding member of the new Transaction Services team
• Help shape and build the Transaction Services team, its market position and share in the responsibility for success of the team
• Support leading mid and large-cap PE clients, as well as corporates, to invest in the right businesses
• Manage work streams or wider projects, and build the skills and capabilities of those in your team
• Brainstorm with the team on the key deal hypotheses and how to address these as part of the work
• Carry out analysis of market and competitor dynamics to provide assurance to our clients about market scale, growth and trends, and competitive positioning of different companies
• Design the approach to gaining customer insight, to understand customer behaviours and perceptions of different companies
• Present both internally and to the client to support decision making
• Build and maintain relationships with clients
• Work on cross-border projects with other Simon-Kucher offices around the world
• Engage in the development of the team and market activities, business development, recruitment, marketing as we grow our work

What you bring:

• 4+ years’ experience within consulting or in the strategy/M&A function of a corporate, with ample experience of carrying out commercial due diligence engagements
• Exceptional project management skills and experience of building high performing teams
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills alongside experience in carrying out market and competitor analysis, assessment of company performance etc
• A passion for commercial issues and value creation
• Extremely articulate, with the ability to take complex ideas and make them simple and compelling
• A strong desire to work in a fast-paced commercially agile environment
• Passion for building the winning Transaction Services team and delivering successful projects
• Fluency in both Dutch and English

Does this sound like you? Let's connect. Simply press the 'Apply now' button or reach out to the contact provided below for questions.

What we offer:

Simon-Kucher is growing and within that growth story, you would be part of a new team providing new services to our clients. We provide an entrepreneurial and inspiring work environment with lots of responsibilities and a steep learning curve. You will receive a comprehensive benefits package, alongside opportunities for personal growth and development.

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Your personal contact:
Jacqueline van Es
recruitment