M&A-Integration & Restructuring Manager

The Consumer industry is focused on serving the changing consumer, who has rapidly evolving needs, behaviors and preferences for products, services, and experiences. Our Consumer Products and Retail sector is undergoing a transformation fueled by an empowered consumer, technology advancements, market fragmentation and blurring lines across the industry. Organizations are racing to compete for the consumer's attention and win share of wallet, which is creating unique challenges to innovate, modernize technology and transform business models with the winners ultimately seeing this as a consumer-led renaissance.

The Team

Deloitte's US Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Offering Portfolio enables our client's ability to grow, shrink, and fundamentally change the nature of their business and competitive position in a dynamic market full of change and disruption. By providing merger and acquisition services from beginning to end, we bring a large scope of capabilities to the market and opportunity for our practice and firm. The US M&A Offering Portfolio works with Industry teams to identify trends that could lead to M&A or strategic cost events and enables us to sell front-end strategic work creating pull through for transformative services.

• Business and Operating Model Transformation
• Digital Transformation
• Synergy and dis-synergy assessments, planning, and value capture
• Rapid Cost Take-out - pre(distressed) clients
• Working Capital Optimization
• Strategic Turnarounds
• Clean Room Services
• Business Process Optimization / Automation
• Stranded Cost Reduction
• Legal entity restructuring related transformation

Work you'll do

As a Manager, you will lead and deliver small or components of large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. Manager level responsibilities include providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the 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. You will be expected to implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. Managers participate in business development activities.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5+ years of experience Managing cross-functional teams to deliver M&A engagements across all of phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration
• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Immigration: Limited Sponsorship Available

A candidate must have M&A or M&A Service Delivery Experience in the following areas:

• Participating in setting engagement objectives and scope
• Framing issues and breaking it down into hypotheses to be solved
• Developing work plans for components of engagements, coordinate activities between work streams and identify changes in scope
• Designing deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs and strive to improve deliverable quality through verification and validation of results
• Collaborating with practitioners in other practices and businesses
• Providing corporate and private equity buyers with a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives and post-transaction activities
• Partnering with senior executives to define how they employ M&A - in alignment with their corporate strategy - to drive profitable growth and enable them to compete effectively in their industry
• Providing industry insight and analytical support using data mining, pattern matching, data visualization, and predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enables pre-deal and post-deal integration, divestiture, and major restructuring/cost transformation activities to achieve/exceed deal value, synergy targets, or strategic cost takeout objectives
• Managing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the 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
• Managing day-to-day interactions with executive clients and sponsors; develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients
• Participating and leading aspects of the proposal development process; contributing to the development of proposal pricing strategies
• Identifying and developing add-on sales opportunities
• Performing role of counselor and coach; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices
• Improving internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the community of practice, blogs, and other forms of market eminence

Preferred:

• Strong project management and delivery experience, including project planning, budget oversight and staffing of project teams including time management

• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment

• Experience with selling to C-level executives and other business development activities
• Previous experience mentoring, training, and developing junior members of the team; experience in employee performance reviews

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint). Working knowledge and experience of MS Office applications and training development tools

• Located within a commutable distance of a Deloitte office