(Senior) Associate - Digital Strategy

Description

Department:

Alvarez and Marsal’s Digital and Technology Services (DTS) professionals work with corporate clients, private equity firms and their portfolio companies to drive new forms of value creation - top and bottom-line growth - throughout the entire investment lifecycles. We help clients short circuit strategy through execution, drawing from new approaches to accelerated innovation and commercialisation or scale of new business opportunities, while grounding everything we do on A&M’s heritage in complex turnaround, operational and financial value engineering.

Through our DTS practice, A&M helps clients ideate, incubate, and industrialise new business models including agile target operating models, customer and product innovations, or intelligent and automated back offices leveraging a mix of capabilities ranging from digital product management, customer experience (CX) service design, data and analytics, and self-service platforms. Working directly with client management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address key market opportunities or challenges and maximise the value of its business and technology investments moving forward.

A&M’s DTS professionals work on some of the world’s most high-profile cases in a rapidly transforming landscape, striving for game-changing solutions that provide impactful long-term change. Our international team is comprised of seasoned executives from diverse backgrounds, functional experts & highly skilled consultants.

The Purpose of the Digital Strategy Team:

The focus of this team is to help A&M’s clients to understand the capability and impact of digital transformation and technology, across France and broader EMEA. You will advise in shaping clients vision of technology and business capabilities, build a strategy to succeed and define digital transformation roadmaps to deliver the strategy. Using your skills in strategy execution, you will own and deliver the transformation for our clients. Skills in operating model design, business analysis, business process and organisation design will all be learned, developed and tailored for our clients’ needs. 

We have opportunities at Associate/Senior Associate level. Our DTS Strategy consultants’ not only form strategies or advise the clients, but also build them alongside cross-functional teams - becoming part of client teams and operating fully end to end, from problem identification to formulating strategy and delivering the end product. You will work on transferring capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. You will work with clients and teams on broader consulting work that includes strategy, operations/processes, training, organisational structuring, new digital initiatives, and marketing with a strong digital focus.

Responsibilities at Associate/Senior Associate level:

This opportunity requires entrepreneurial talent with a balanced acumen of creative, analytical, and financial problem-solving skills, drawing from experiences in MBB or Big 4 consulting, start-up / scale-up innovation hubs, Private Equity, and / or target industries such as CPG, Retail, Industrials, Business Services, TMT, and Financial Services. As an integral member of the A&M European team based in Paris, you will be working on high value engagements throughout France and Europe applying new digital concepts to identify, frame, and pursue new sources of value throughout the full transformation lifecycle with corporates or the full deal cycle with private equity firms (e.g., operational due diligences, carveouts, mergers, turnaround, transformation, and exits).

As a (Senior) Associate, you will be working closely with world class colleagues in a flat team structure. You will be positioned and enabled to lead work streams, with constant exposure to CXOs and -1/-2 reports, while leveraging the full breadth of senior experts across industry and functional domains across A&M. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to participate on a range of practice development efforts. These range from eminence building and marketing to amplify A&M’s perspective on digital disruptions and trends specific to each industry, to business development and asset building in the form of PoVs, pitches, offerings, models, and collateral co-created with an ecosystem of external partners and advisors.

You will specifically support the delivery of digital transformation projects within the French region and EMEA, where identifying disruptive transformation levers and managing political complexity will be key to generate significant and sustainable savings. To this effectively, you will need to:

• Work closely with senior stakeholders in the client’s business and with professionals from leading institutions;
• Be creative to generate, get buy in and implement break through ideas regarding transformation levers, new operating models and ways of working;
• Be an action-oriented self-starter with strong analytical skills and entrepreneurial flair;
• Have a strong exposure to client, be able to deal with top executives in complex situation;
• Be proactive in industry events e.g. conferences, forums, debates – ensure the Company is perceived as a key player in the Digital Transformation space.

Requirements:

Experience & abilities will depend a little on the focus area but are likely to include:

• Education: a high-grade degree qualification (or equivalent) from a Grande Ecole University in a relevant subject;
• Experience within advisory (ideally from a large Professional Services firm or from a digitally focused boutique), working on large scale transformation program and highly exposed to top management;
• Previous experience delivering digital transformation projects in a consulting or client-side role e.g., strategic consulting (digital strategies, digital roadmaps, workflows...), familiarity with established and emerging technologies (data analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, cloud migration, blockchain and digital twins..) and ability to integrate Digital Transformation into other service offerings such as process improvement or operations excellence, stakeholder engagement, change management;
• Native/Fluent French & English language skills are essential, along with excellent writing skills;
• A creative, strategic thinker who can bring innovative ideas, a new perspective or a new strategy to the table to challenge the status quos;
• Solution oriented, data driven, learning mind-sets; 
• An understanding of change management thinking – especially pertaining to disruptive technologies highly desired;
• Willingness to travel for work (within both France and across Europe), as well as right to work in the EU;
• Additional European languages spoken at a fluent level welcomed;
• Further education such as an MBA would be highly valued.

Why A&M?

Companies, investors, lenders and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) when conventional approaches are not enough to activate change and achieve results.

Privately-held since 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that delivers performance improvement, turnaround management and business advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. Our senior professionals are experienced operators, world-class consultants and industry veterans who draw upon the firm's restructuring heritage to help leaders turn change into a strategic business asset, manage risk and unlock value at every stage.

When action matters, find us at www.alvarezandmarsal.com

Diversity & Inclusion:

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity and we foster inclusiveness. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor or any other characteristics in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

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