Director, IT Carve- Lead; Europe

At Alysian, we believe technology is the unlock to value creation. As a specialist IT and digital advisory firm, we work alongside private equity investors and their portfolio companies, from due diligence and carve-outs through to transformation, to deliver tech-enabled value creation with speed and precision. Join us to work on high-stakes deals for some of the world’s leading investors, in an entrepreneurial firm where your expertise shapes outcomes for our clients and helps shape the future of the firm itself.

We are hiring a Carve-Out Lead to support complex technology separation programmes across private equity portfolio companies in Europe, specialising in global carve-outs, from IT Due Diligences to TSA exits and post-merger integrations. You will sit between PE sponsors, portfolio company leadership and delivery teams, giving independent visibility, sharp challenge and intervention support so that sponsors know whether a separation programme is truly under control.

Programmes typically involve EUR 25m to 300m+ of technology separation cost across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, End User Compute (EUC) and business functions. This is a permanent Director role reporting to the Managing Director, Carve Out Leadership and the person could be based in UK or Poland
. Noting that we are a remote first company.

You will establish and run the Control Tower across multi-vendor IT separation programmes, setting the governance, cadence, reporting and decision forums that keep everyone aligned, but most importantly programme on track. You will assess Day 1 readiness, Day 2 execution plans, TSA exit plans and stranded cost risk, coordinating across applications, infrastructure, cyber, data, EUC, networks and service management. You will test the realism of TSA exit plans, migration sequencing, vendor transitions and critical-path dependencies, and challenge systems integrator plans, estimates and status reporting with your own independent view of application-level risk and complexity.

For sponsors and portfolio company leadership, you will create PE-ready views of progress, risk, cost-to-achieve and the decisions they need to make. Above all, you will translate technical separation issues into clear commercial, operational and value implications, and drive action rather than just reporting.

You will bring a named track record in IT carve-outs and separations, built in consulting, transformation advisory, restructuring or systems integration. You operate comfortably above the PMO while staying close enough to the detail to challenge plans, risks and assumptions, and you are credible in the room with PE sponsors and C-suite leaders.

• Direct experience in IT Due Diligence processes and outcomes
• Direct experience in Sign to Close and TSA exit design and delivery including Day 1 and Day 2 planning and readiness, applications, infrastructure, cyber and data separation.
• Experience of large-scale separation programmes, such as ERP and core systems transformations, in the EUR 25m to 300m+ technology cost band.
• Strong consulting skills: problem structuring, executive story-lining in PowerPoint, decision papers and board-level reporting.
• Senior stakeholder experience with PE sponsors, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, Transformation Directors and SI Programme Directors / Partners.
• A track record of originating, closing and growing significant advisory work, ideally with PE sponsors or their portfolio companies, with strong margin discipline.
• The right to work in Europe and willingness to travel to client sites across Europe, sometimes at short notice.

It would be great if you also have experience at a strategy, PE-advisory or restructuring firm, a…