Managing Director, Improvement

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who 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 why our people love working at A&M.

The Performance Improvement Practice works with Private Equity and Corporate clients in Southeast Asia. We offer end-to-end services throughout the investment life cycle by furnishing transaction advisory, performance improvement, turnaround, interim and crisis management. Our areas of expertise include pre-M&A due diligence, merger integration, post-M&A growth strategy, corporate finance advisory, organizational and cost transformation, supply chain and manufacturing operational improvement, interim and crisis management, and CFO finance leadership.

We differentiate ourselves by the result-driven approach, the hands-on mindset, and the ability to provide leadership amidst complex situations.

A&M is rapidly expanding in Southeast Asia and seeking to hire Managing Directors who will be responsible for leading a diverse range of complex client assignments alongside other experienced professionals. We are looking to hire a leader who has a successful track record of value creation with a blend of operational and commercial skills, an entrepreneurial approach and networks across Southeast Asia.

The Managing Director will help expand the business through marketing and selling work, managing relationships and leading projects, and recruiting and developing a team of capable consultants. On business development, the Managing Director will build and leverage a network of potential client decision-makers, develop marketing strategies and supporting content and communicate with the A&M network and prospective clients.

• Building a robust yet flexible plan to generate both deal flow and develop a sustainable business, externally and internally
• Grow our practice through strengthening our practice, broadening out our routes to market, developing and leveraging senior relationships and working with our global partnership group
• Plan accounts strategy for long-term profitable growth and position A&M as a thought partner and business leader within the account
• Selling and delivering ODDs, 100-day planning, post-merger integration and performance improvement mandates
• Contribute strongly to business development activity including developing successful pitches and selling, on from the initial “diagnostic” project phase into implementation work
• Managing rapid diagnostics through analytical and qualitative insight to identify opportunities to transform an organization’s current performance
• Subsequent implementation of the opportunities through development and execution of a transformation plan tied closely to EBITDA and working capital improvement
• Post-merger integration and performance improvement
• Evaluating both cost reduction and revenue enhancement opportunities
• Leading post-acquisition work to ensure that our Operational Due Diligence reports are realized in full and in the shortest possible time
• Developing detailed and robust methodology to ensure that the in the first 100 days total clarity and ownership is created throughout the organization, a clear path to delivering the growth and cost reduction developed and the identified quick wins delivered
• Encompassing in the 100-day planning process the merger of two organizations…