(Senior) Associate, Procurement & Sourcing

Description

Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement 

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services.

With over 11,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

A&M's Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) practice focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged A&M to diligence potential acquisition targets in pre-deal situations as well as help improve operating results at their portfolio companies. Our area of expertise is integrated pre-deal due diligence assistance and supporting performing companies to deliver a growth strategy as well as supporting under-performing with a need to reorganize or take costs out. Working directly with company management, A&M helps stabilize financial and operational performance by developing and implementing comprehensive profitability and working capital improvement measures.

A&M’s Supply Chain professionals assist our clients in analyzing each part of the supply chain process including:  Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, Logistics and Distribution, Integrated Demand and Supply Planning to identify value creation opportunities, develop a roadmap to accelerate those opportunities and assist with driving them to our client’s bottom line.  From our thorough fact-based analysis, we assess the state of the supply chain, identify key risks to investment and quantify potential EBITDA improvement plans.   

The PEPI Supply Chain group is a growing business with high growth projected throughout the next two to four years. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and build leadership skills. The leadership team is focused on providing development opportunities, training and exposure to international and domestic business assignments. 

Professional experience: 

We are seeking individuals that can lead and deliver project work streams for complex client engagements working closely with Private Equity teams to identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for their portfolio companies. 

(Senior) Associates support the following types of workstreams, conduct analysis as well as execute with team members to deliver results like:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of a client’s procurement organization and strategic sourcing capabilities
• Assist in the development and implementation of sourcing strategies to meet growth and financial objectives through effective integration with forecasting, demand/supply planning, inventory management, and distribution & logistics
• Assist in developing and managing efforts in sourcing and procurement
• Lead supplier identification, approval, contract/pricing negotiations and vendor relations
• Develop implementation plans to drive proposed changes in procurement and sourcing initiatives
•  Conduct analysis depending on project scope

Professional skills: 

• Strong written, oral, and analytical skills 
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills with excellent presentation skills
• Ability to deliver time-pressured projects on-time and on-quality
• Structured project management (time, team and work-stream management)
• Client relationship building 

Qualifications: 

• 3-8 years of consulting and industry operating experience 
• Preference for industry roles within Sourcing and Procurement functions
• Industry experience in direct and/or indirect categories
• Demonstrated track record of leading sustainable high-impact strategic sourcing approaches
• Exemplary experience designing end-to-end procurement strategies
• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis
• Master’s degree from an accredited university
• Fluency to a native level in both written and verbal Dutch and English is essential

If you want to be part of A&M’s success story and would like to grow in a dynamic environment, we are looking forward to your application.  

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