About this role
Job title: Assistant Director | Value Creation (PE & Corporates)
About the Role The role combines strategy, hands-on execution, and client leadership, with a strong focus on delivering measurable EBITDA, cash, and operational improvement outcomes. It involves partnering with PE investors, portfolio companies, and corporate CXOs to turn growth and efficiency initiatives into tangible financial results. The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on delivery and executive storytelling.
What You'll Do
- Lead growth-oriented value creation initiatives including revenue improvement, pricing optimization, and commercial excellence
- Drive revenue acceleration through pricing strategies, discount rationalization, and value-based pricing frameworks
- Identify and unlock commercial levers across customer segmentation, product mix, and channel optimization
- Lead go-to-market (GTM) strategy refinement including market prioritization and route-to-market effectiveness
- Deliver margin uplift through mix optimization and pricing discipline
- Translate growth initiatives into tangible financial outcomes linked to EBITDA, revenue, and cash flow
- Lead end-to-end value creation and transformation programs across PE portfolio companies and corporate performance improvement agendas
- Drive cost transformation initiatives across SG&A, procurement, and operations
- Deliver sustainable EBITDA expansion through structurally embedded cost and operating model improvements
- Improve operational efficiency and productivity through process optimization and cost discipline
- Ensure execution-led delivery with clear tracking of financial outcomes
- Lead large-scale transformation programs (cost, operations, growth, operating model redesign)
- Develop and execute 100-day plans, turnaround strategies, and transformation roadmaps
- Drive capital efficiency initiatives (working capital, capex, cash flow optimization)
- Support pre- and post-deal activities including: ODD, carve-outs, integration, and synergy capture (PE context)
- Transformation and restructuring (corporate context)
- Client Leadership & Relationship Management
- Partner with onshore teams to act as a trusted advisor to PE investors, portfolio companies, and corporate CXOs
- Co-lead executive discussions, steering committees, and key decision forums
- Build client relationships and proactively identify follow-on opportunities
- Engagement Leadership & Delivery
- Lead cross-functional teams across multiple workstreams
- Structure complex problems into clear hypotheses, analyses, and execution plans
- Deliver high-quality, insight-driven outputs and executive storytelling
- Drive delivery excellence across quality, timelines, and client satisfaction
- Business Development & Practice Building
- Support proposals, pitches, and commercial development initiatives
- Build sector and functional value creation credentials
- Develop playbooks, benchmarks, and proprietary tools (cost, productivity, transformation)
- Contribute to scaling the value creation and transformation practice
- Team Leadership & Talent Development
- Mentor and coach Managers, Consultants, and Associates
- Build high-performing, execution-focused teams
- Support recruiting, capability building, and knowledge sharing