About Alpha Alternatives
Alpha Alternatives, part of Alpha Group, is a fast-growing global consulting practice focused on leading digital and operational transformation projects for the alternative investment industry, encompassing private equity, real estate, private debt, credit, and infrastructure.
We are known for our expertise, innovation, and commitment to delivering exceptional value to our clients. Our people work side by side with clients to identify, address, and resolve key operational and technology challenges within alternative investments and financial services firms.
We often find that the best innovation comes from within—our role is to help empower client teams to drive the change required. Collaboration and support are at the heart of what we do, and we look for consultants who embody these values and bring firsthand experience in the challenges and enabling technologies that drive success in alternatives.
The Opportunity
The Manager serves as a workstream leader within Alpha Alternatives’ Data Strategy segment, driving delivery across complex private markets data transformation initiatives. Positioned within the Front & Middle Office team, the Manager oversees structured components of enterprise programs spanning front-, middle-, and back-office workflows, with deep involvement across data domains such as Client, Fund, Investment, Deal, Portfolio Company, Exposure, Cashflows, Valuations, and IR-related datasets. Managers translate business strategy into domain structures, operating model components, governance frameworks, and conceptual architectural implications. They coordinate across business stakeholders, data owners, and technical teams to ensure cohesive, high-quality workstream outcomes that support the broader target-state vision.
Responsibilities
- Lead one or more workstreams within private markets data strategy and operating model engagements, owning the plan, delivery cadence, and quality of outcomes.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across business, data, and technology stakeholders to establish shared priorities, clarify dependencies, and enable timely decision-making.
- Translate business objectives into data strategy, governance needs, and business-led data enablement requirements that are practical and implementable.
- Establish consistent domain definitions, taxonomies, and ownership constructs that reduce fragmentation and improve cross-team execution.
- Facilitate workshops that align stakeholders on process improvements, decision requirements, and how data should support target business outcomes.
- Produce executive-ready materials for senior stakeholders that simplify complexity, highlight decisions required, and enable action.
- Develop and mentor project team members by providing clear direction, structured feedback, and rigorous quality review across deliverables.
Qualifications and Skills
- 6 – 9+ years of experience in consulting, private markets, asset management, or data strategy roles.
- Demonstrated ability to lead workstreams and drive day-to-day execution in complex, cross-functional advisory engagements.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align business and technology leaders toward shared outcomes.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems into clear approaches, priorities, and decision pathways, balancing rigor with practicality.
- Strong command of private markets business processes and how data enables improved decision-making, transparency, and operating efficiency.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading workshops and translating discussion into aligned next steps and decisions.
- Strong literacy in modern cloud-native data platform tools across ingestion, processing, storage, governance, and visualization, sufficient to guide business-led architectural decisions in partnership with technical teams.
- Proven ability to coach and develop junior team members through clear direction, feedback, and quality oversight.
Compensation and Benefits
- Learning and development: Vast opportunities to self-development, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- Flexible working: Work-life balance with flexible schedule
- Community events: We offer a range of social events and meetups
- 25 days’ holiday in addition to public holidays
- Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) with employer match
- Wellness initiatives to promote healthy working, including a gym reimbursement for those enrolled in our medical plans and an allowance for remote working technology
- Access to discounted travel, tickets, events, and more through our benefit partner
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What We Do
Alpha Alternatives (formerly Lionpoint Group) is the specialist alternatives consulting division of Alpha FMC, dedicated to creating value for private markets clients—including Private Equity, Private Debt and Liquid Credit, and Real Assets and Infrastructure—through advisory support, technology optimization, and process transformation. With hundreds of specialist consultants in key markets globally, we deliver solutions across the entire program lifecycle, helping over 300 clients navigate complex operational and technology challenges across all areas of their business, from front to back office, to achieve their business objectives.
