A distressed manufacturing asset needs someone with authority to make hard decisions quickly. You are placed to manage liquidity, stabilize the business, and execute the restructuring — whether that means exiting product lines, renegotiating debt, closing sites, or preparing an asset for sale.
This is not a coaching role. You will make decisions that affect people's jobs, and you will make them on a compressed timeline with incomplete information.
What you'll own- Immediate liquidity management and cash conservation
- 13-week cash flow as the primary operating instrument
- Lender, creditor, and stakeholder negotiation and communication
- Product line and customer profitability analysis, and the divestiture or exit decisions that follow
- Cost structure reduction, including headcount and footprint actions
- Debt restructuring, forbearance, and amendment negotiation
- Contingency planning, including 363 sale or Chapter 11 preparation where applicable
- Board, sponsor, and lender reporting under high scrutiny
- 15+ years of senior operating or financial leadership, with direct turnaround or restructuring accountability
- Multiple completed distressed engagements — this role is not a first turnaround
- Deep liquidity management capability under genuine constraint
- Lender negotiation experience across forbearance, amendment, and refinancing
- Manufacturing operations literacy — you can evaluate whether a plant should stay open
- The judgment and steadiness to hold a room that is losing confidence
Strong plus: CTP, CIRA, or equivalent credential; Chapter 11 experience; carve-out or asset sale execution; industrial and manufacturing sector concentration.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of senior operating or financial leadership experience
- Direct accountability for turnaround or restructuring engagements
- Multiple completed distressed engagements
- Deep liquidity management experience under significant financial constraints
- Lender negotiation experience involving forbearance, amendments, and refinancing
- Manufacturing operations knowledge, including plant viability assessment
- Ability to make difficult decisions under compressed timelines and uncertainty
- CTP, CIRA, or equivalent credential
- Chapter 11 experience
- Carve-out or asset sale execution experience
- Industrial and manufacturing sector concentration
What We Do
Value Driven Solutions (VDS) is an operational-excellence consulting firm serving middle-market companies, private-equity firms, and portfolio companies. It improves operational and financial performance through supply-chain optimization, operations, finance, technology, procurement, strategic consulting, and vetted interim executives. VDS also applies Lean Six Sigma, automation, robotics, AI, and analytics to strengthen efficiency, margins, capital efficiency, and enterprise value, with measurable, lasting results.
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