About Alvarez & Marsal
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who 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 why our people love working at A&M.
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The Team
Alvarez and Marsal’s dedicated Consumer and Retail Group (CRG) professionals work with global CRG companies to provide independent analysis and end-to-end services across Corporate Transformation programs. Pulling from Alvarez & Marsal’s restructuring heritage, A&M’s Consumer and Retail Group combines the best of A&M’s bias toward action and practicality with deep industry experience as both consultants and operators.
We are a team of seasoned consultants and world-class operators who are truly passionate about the consumer and retail industries we serve. Through our deep experience in the industry, we first-hand witness the overwhelming disruptions and challenges facing consumer and retail companies.
Alvarez & Marsal’s Corporate Transformation business is rapidly growing its GCC CRG team. To continue our success and to support our ambitious growth plans, we are currently looking for a Senior Associate to join our Gurgaon team. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to use your outstanding business and analytical acumen, along with problem solving skills to become an integral part of our successful ‘hands-on’ team. As a valued member of the A&M Global CRG team based in Gurgaon, you will be working on high-impact projects across A&M’s Global offices, and across the entire project life cycle, including conducting detailed market analysis, developing and executing growth strategy, implementing operational improvements, and driving financial performance enhancements to deliver measurable results for our clients.
How you will contribute?
As a Manager, you will be working closely with Senior Directors and Managing Directors in a flat team structure. You will likely lead key work streams and benefit from constant exposure to the senior members of the team and client, and gain ‘on-the-job’ learning and development, leveraging on their substantial experience. Alongside, you will also be validating and executing on operations-focused problem solving and transformation activities on our clients’ projects. Additionally, you will also have the chance to contribute to business development activities, discuss and suggest the development of innovative offerings for our market and considerably nurture and enlarge your professional network as well.
Considering the pace of targeted growth, we are keen to find people who are entrepreneurial, driven by a passion to drive significant growth (people who can think in multiples of growth rather than percentages), are comfortable with ambiguity, will roll up the sleeves and be hands on to get things done and can be independent requiring limited cover.
The role will be initially based in Gurgaon. However, the person should be open to travel as and when needed and should be open to relocate to Mumbai or Bengaluru as the capability center scales and decide to relocate.
Key Responsibilities
Develop/ Deliver CRG solutions
- Actively contribute as a member of the CRG team to develop/ deliver solutions within the Consumer Products (Food & Beverage, Personal Care, Household Goods, Health & Wellness, Electronics etc.) and Retail domain (Grocery, Apparel, Department Stores/ General Merchandise, E-Commerce, B2B Retail etc.)
- Own medium to complex work-streams with support from supervisors
- Perform benchmarking across relevant CRG financial and operational metrics to identify areas of potential underperformance
- Develop expertise on various Consumer Products and Retail industry sub-sectors or clients to enhance overall project insights and strategies
- Work with different analytical tools with focus on building expertise in Tableau/ Power BI, Alteryx/ Python, Excel and PowerPoint
Own stakeholder relationships
- Interpret, understand and break-down client data/ requirements and project goals across various scenarios and adapt to them
- Communicate information/ insights, and the impact of the analyses to the clients and internal team
- Manage important work streams and own key business processes to solve client problems
- Lead meetings with senior CRG clients, A&M Managing Directors, and third parties about your workstreams.
- Lead pitch preparation with senior staff and support business development and marketing efforts
Prioritization and Growing A&M
- Identifying project needs and milestones to manage & accomplish assigned work by agreed deadlines
- Collaborate with team members to create and deliver client outputs
- Contribute to office management roles (such as trainings, marketing, recruitments etc.)
Qualifications
- Graduate from tier-1 college with 6-11 years of experience within a leading strategy/ analytics/ analytics Consulting/ operational Consulting house is preferable, with at-least 5 years of experience working with CRG clients
- Possess a good understanding of the Consumer Products and Retail industry, with keen insights into sector data and metrics across various areas, including but not limited to Digital, Brand Assessment, Pricing, Merchandising, General & Administrative, Supply Chain, Inventory Planning, Store Operations etc.
- Guide/ mentor Analysts and Associates during projects and business development work
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, business acumen, writing, research and presentation-building skills; attention to detail and striving to produce zero-defect deliverables
- Excel modelling skills - structure data within Excel in a way to draw conclusions and support timely decision making with our clients
- PowerPoint skills - preparation of defect-free, high-quality client presentations
- Experience working in tools such as Alteryx or Python for data analysis, and Power BI or Tableau for data visualization
- A strong team player and demonstrated ability to motivate team members
- Ability to prioritize - especially in highly pressured situations
- High integrity that is characterized by the ability to deliver messages even when they are difficult to hear
- Fact-based and analytical approach, solution-focused, action-oriented, determined to make a difference and not afraid to challenge the status-quo, self-starter with entrepreneurial flair
Your journey at A&M
We recognize that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritize an employee experience that fosters each person’s unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top-notch training and on-the-job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career. We prioritize your well-being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favorite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high-performing and passionate professionals.
