Senior Manager - Deals Advisory - MandA Ops Sector Industrial Products And Services

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. Those in deal integration and valuation realisation at PwC will focus on assisting clients in successfully integrating acquisitions and maximising the value of their investments. You will be responsible for conducting valuations, financial analysis, and developing strategies for post-merger integration.

Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
• Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
• Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
• Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
• Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Core responsibilities as a Senior Manager would entail (but not limited to)

Key Responsibilities

• Pre and post deal performance improvement using our proprietary Value Creation methodology; including identifying operational improvement levers e.g. site footprint consolidation, procurement efficiencies, back office rationalisation, supply chain optimisation, etc.
• Supporting carve-outs and divestments to achieve viable standalone businesses; including advising on separation planning, execution, transition and optimisation e.g. Day 1 readiness, migration planning, TSA / LTA requirements, separation cost analysis, etc.
• Providing buy and sell side Operational Due Diligence; including analysing the operations of a business along the value chain e.g. production, supply chain, support functions, Capex investment, etc.
• Mergers and acquisitions integration support; including defining and executing the integration programme, and developing and reviewing operational synergies in combining the two businesses.
• Assisting with other non-transactional products to support clients in maximising profitability e.g. zero based budgeting.
  
  

Across the engagements above, as a Senior Manager you will take overall responsibility for leading large complex projects, including scoping and shaping the approach to address our clients’ most critical operational challenges. You will be accountable for driving conclusions, reviewing and challenging team outputs, managing engagement risks and ensuring delivery meets both client expectations and PwC quality standards.

You will proactively manage client relationships as the main point of contact, working closely with Directors and Partners, and will play a key role in the financial management of engagements. You will lead, coach and develop junior team members, building high-performing teams and providing day-to-day leadership across projects.

In addition, you will be expected to take a proactive and leading role in business development, identifying opportunities with new and existing clients, owning proposals, and continuing to build your network.

Must-have Skills

• Able to demonstrate a deep understanding and practical experience of a function such as; engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, supply-chain or manufacturing
• Can quickly assess the performance of a business (or elements of it), identifying and developing improvement opportunities based upon limited information and/or senior management interaction
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the credibility and confidence to engage, challenge and influence senior leaders
• Excellent analytical, quantitative and written skills, able to review, challenge and refine complex analysis, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information
• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity combined with a structured, hypothesis-led approach to solving complex, ambiguous problems
• Able to work from first-principles and stay focused on the ‘why’ when shaping analyses or reviewing documentation
• Proven ability to operate under pressure, managing ambiguity, risk and competing priorities while maintaining high-quality delivery
• Adaptable and commercially minded, with the ability to apply experience across new industries and variety of product types
• Experience in leveraging and reviewing AI and data analytics (e.g. Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau) to enhance client deliverables
  
  

Experience

• Operational or transformational leadership experience within a corporate environment, including experience in one or more of the following: lean manufacturing, manufacturing / maintenance best-practice, operational restructuring and cost reduction Or
• Experience leading workstreams within a professional services environment (either in a Deals or Consulting background), focused on IPS or EUR
  
  

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA in Strategy/ Marketing/ Finance from a premium B-School
• Past Experience: 10 – 12 years of prior relevant work experience
• Experience in M&A or management consulting domain

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