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Associate Director - Research

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Leads private equity portfolio value creation and operational improvement initiatives. Assesses company performance, identifies growth and efficiency opportunities, executes revenue, pricing, sales, cost, working capital, and operations programs, and tracks impact against investment cases. Partners with portfolio-company CEOs, CFOs, and functional leaders, establishes KPIs and governance, and supports 100-day planning, portfolio monitoring, and exit readiness.
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Company Description

Looking for a senior Private Equity professional with hands-on experience in portfolio value creation and operational improvement. The candidate should have worked with a PE firm / portfolio operations team and directly with portfolio-company management teams.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assess portfolio-company performance and identify value-creation opportunities.
  • Develop and execute initiatives across revenue growth, pricing/GTM, sales effectiveness, cost, working capital and operations.
  • Track performance against the investment case and value-creation plan, identifying reasons for underperformance.
  • Work directly with portfolio-company CEOs/CFOs and functional leaders on improvement programs.
  • Establish KPIs, milestones and governance; track impact on revenue, EBITDA, FCF and ROIC.
  • Support 100-day planning, portfolio monitoring and exit readiness.

Qualifications

Candidate Profile:

  • 10-15+ years of relevant experience.
  • Prior PE / Portfolio Operations / Value Creation experience strongly preferred.
  • Hands-on experience executing improvement programs within PE portfolio companies.
  • Strong understanding of the PE lifecycle from diligence and underwriting through value creation and exit.
  • Strong financial, analytical and program-management skills.
  • Comfortable working with PE senior leadership and portfolio-company management teams.

Priority: Candidates with actual portfolio-company value creation and execution experience, rather than primarily transaction, research or strategy backgrounds.

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