Senior Managing Director, Strategic Advisory

• Full-time
• Job Location Type:
  Remote
• Department:
  Strategic Advisory

Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, and clear-cut analysis. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services enabling clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

We have over 100 locations worldwide.

We are highly committed to all members of our community, both employees and clients. Our organization focuses on promoting a sense of community and inspiring our people to achieve results that exceed goals.

We are seeking a Senior Managing Director to join our Strategic Advisory Group.

This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial, highly driven person with a well-rounded skill set to join the Strategic Advisory Group. The ideal person for this role will need to have significant demonstrated experience in operational turnarounds and financial restructurings both in and out of bankruptcy court as well as within the context of Receiverships and Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors, and a strong grasp of the lending and M&A markets.

This person will be a leader, who can think strategically, develop and implement a plan, and keep all the parties moving forward to effectuate the plan – generally during a crisis when there is a lack of human and financial resources.

J.S. Held’s Strategic Advisory Group helps distressed organizations stabilize operations, protect stakeholder interests, and execute turnaround strategies. We take an operationally-focused approach that looks beyond the balance sheet to minimize further degradation and build a path to sustainable growth. Our team delivers hands‑on guidance and independent analysis to lenders, creditors, legal counsel, executive teams, boards of directors, and investors.

Our Strategic Advisory Group has openings available at the Senior Managing Director level. The candidate will join an experienced and closely-knit team of professionals, with deep experience in leading, planning and solving the most complex client situations.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead operational turnaround management and financial restructuring engagements;
• Provide expertise and leadership in investment banking, valuation, litigation support and asset disposition roles of our clients;
• Manage and lead teams of JS Held personnel;
• Lead interaction with client teams, shareholders, lenders and other stakeholders
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously;
• Work under stress in crisis situations with limited resources and tight deadlines;
• Provide marketplace leading skills in business development efforts to develop and further cultivate both existing and new referral source relationships within the legal, lending and investor communities in generating revenue opportunities;
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and implement go to market strategies related to driving revenue growth;
• Provide support in other ad-hoc tasks as requested.

Required Qualifications

• 20+ years of relevant work experience within the turnaround and restructuring marketplace both in leading assignments and demonstrated abilities for business development.
• Ability to develop understanding and ability to cross-sell other JS Held expertise and service offerings both to existing and new referral source relationships.
• Ability to delegate and lead multiple projects and mentor subordinate professional staff a must.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited…