As a professional services company, Ayming partners with businesses and institutions around the world to unlock lasting value. With a team of over 1,500 experts in Innovation, HR, and Taxes across 14 countries; our three delivery modes are: consulting services, digital services and managed services.
Positioned as a high value-added strategic partner, Ayming combines deep expertise, innovation and strong client proximity. As part of its strategic roadmap FeelAyming 2029, the Group is entering a new phase of transformation, structuring and growth.
Job DescriptionWe are looking for a Managing Director for Italy to lead and develop our Italian operations. This is a senior executive role, with full responsibility of the P&L, organizational structure and operational excellence of the Italian entity.
The Italian organization is split between Terni and Milan, with approximately 80 employees. The Managing Director Italy will play a key role in preparing and executing the Group’s strategic plan FeelAyming 2029, in close collaboration with Group stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
1. General management & leadership
- Lead the entire Italian organization, ensuring strong performance across all functions: operations, sales, delivery and support functions.
- Recruit, structure and manage a strong leadership team.
- Foster leadership, accountability and ownership at all levels of the organization.
- Work closely with Group corporate functions (Finance, HR, Strategy, IT, Marketing).
- Actively contribute to M&A projects, including integration phases.
2. Business development & performance management
- Develop a deep understanding of the Italian market and position Ayming’s offerings effectively.
- Drive sustainable growth and increase market share.
- Build, together with the Sales Director, a high-performing and ambitious sales team.
- Ensure alignment between operations, sales and delivery, coordinating multiple business lines and sites.
3. Financial leadership & governance
- Own and manage the P&L, in line with the Business Plan 2029.
- Build the annual budget and take full accountability for its execution and success.
- Ensure profitability, financial discipline and cost control.
- Implement clear KPIs and performance monitoring tools.
- Proven experience leading complex professional services organizations, ideally in multinational, multi-BU environments, including exposure to post M&A.
- Strong track record of P&L ownership and management of significant business volumes.
- Ability to structure, coach and lead teams across multiple business lines and locations.
- Comfortable operating in a client-centric, high-expertise consulting environment.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken). Italian is required.
Key soft skills
- Strong leadership and decision-making capabilities.
- High level of curiosity and learning agility.
- Ability to unite and mobilize teams around a shared vision.
- Systemic thinking and ability to connect business, people and financial topics.
- High level of integrity, accountability and role-model behavior.
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What We Do
As a professional services company, Ayming partners with businesses and institutions around the world to unlock lasting value, year after year. Translating complex policy into opportunities, while managing the transformation that comes with growth. We go beyond consulting, collaborating in the field with clients of all sizes and sectors. So we can deliver tangible results across Innovation, HR and Taxes, driven by expertise and trust – now and for years to come. We are 1300 employees operating in 15 countries across Europe and North America, and have a proven track record of providing leadership and sharing insight that stretches back over 30 years. Through extraordinary relationships we have achieved extraordinary results. By focusing on innovation, operations and people, we are proven to deliver a return on investment: in research and development funding alone, we generate €1,1bn a year for our clients. Together we go further.
