PEPI Senior Associate - Merger Integration & Carve-Outs

Description

A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) practice, with offices throughout the U.S., focuses on serving upper‑middle‑market and large‑cap private equity firms that have engaged A&M to improve operating results at their portfolio companies. The companies we assess range from 50 million to more than 1 billion dollars. Our PEPI services include CDD/Strategy, Interim Management, Merger Integration & Carve‑outs, IT, Rapid Results, Supply Chain, and CFO Services.

From early client exposure and learning from top practitioners, you will be involved throughout the lifecycle of some of the largest, most complex, and high‑profile deals in the U.S. We provide corporate and equity buyers with a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value through mergers, acquisitions, carve‑outs, joint ventures, and alliances. The team works across the full spectrum of the deal lifecycle—from pre‑deal operational and synergy reviews to ‘Day 1’ planning and post‑deal implementation.

Our services include due diligence (commercial, operational), Integration Management Office, synergy, TSA, integration planning, Day 1 Readiness, and post‑close execution.

• Senior Associate‑level responsibilities include providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, assisting client needs by supplementing standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis, and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Depending on the deal size, assist with work streams or a focus area within the Integration Management Office (IMO) – Synergies, TSAs, Blueprinting, Day 1 Readiness, Executive Reporting, Integration Roadmap, Communications, Organizational Design.
• Day 1 and Day 100 Planning, execution and driving performance improvement in key areas:
• Strategic planning
• Operational optimization / consolidation
• Back office consolidation
• Supply chain
• IT / reporting integration
• Customer and channel management
• Actively driving performance improvement assessments across an enterprise and participating in the implementation of recommendations.
• Tracking progress against Day 1 and Day 100 objectives and adjusting integration strategies or personnel as required.

• 4‑6+ years of professional consulting experience, specializing in merger integration, business transformation, and change management.
• Experience in integration planning and divestitures a plus, but not required.
• Deep functional expertise in at least one of the following areas:
• Finance & Accounting operations
• HR / Organizational design
• Role and Job Analysis
• Leadership and Stakeholder Involvement
• Communications planning and management
• Knowledge Management and Transfer
• Success at both planning revenue growth and profitability growth initiatives and driving them operationally
• Program management and leadership experience
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally‑focused and externally‑focused change/communications strategies
• MBA preferred
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Initiative and drive
• Critical thinking skills
• Flexibility to travel at least 75 % of time

Full‑time positions and part‑time positions over 30 hours. Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings’ fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages as determined periodically, as well as a 401(k) retirement savings plan. Eligible employees will also receive an annual discretionary contribution to their 401(k) retirement savings plan.

Employees are eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, 72 hours of sick time (prorated for part‑time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave. The amount of vacation and personal days varies based on tenure and role type. The salary range is $100,000 - $170,000 annually, dependent on variables such as education, experience, skills, and geography.

A&M offers a discretionary bonus program based on performance.