(Senior) Director

**Description** **Department**: This role sits within the EMEA Digital & Technology Services (DTS) practice at Alvarez and Marsal. DTS revolves around a full-service Digital offering spanning Strategy, Customer Experience, Technology and Data. Our positioning is at the intersection of strategy and execution (not slides and then gone, nor fingers on keyboards coding & testing or detailed customer journey designing), architecting the destination, orchestrating the delivery and navigating the change & transformation journey. Through our European DTS practice, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) helps clients ideate, incubate, and industrialise new business models including agile target operating models, customer and product innovations, or intelligent and automated back offices leveraging a mix of capabilities ranging from digital product management, customer experience (CX) service design, data and analytics, and self-service platforms. Working directly with client management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address key market opportunities or challenges and maximise the value of its business and technology investments moving forward. Our Business Technology function within DTS work with Private Equity funds, Corporates and Financial Services clients across France & Europe to: - Realign the performance of the technology / IT function through operational restructuring to directly improve the earnings and cashflow within the business; - Carry out effective technology and product due diligence pre-deal and provide necessary post deal services (Post Merger Integration, Separation, Carve-Out, 100-day planning); - Shape and deliver enterprise-wide systems and online programs to deliver performance improvement via business transformation and/or cost reduction outcomes; - Manage and develop technology (ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence assets and systems) to meet strategic and operational business requirements. This would include development of KPI’s and dashboards to provide better visibility to the underlying business; - Design and implement Digital Transformation initiatives in Data Science and Analytics, Digital Workforce and Artificial Intelligence; - Take interim management positions for example (and depending on experience) CIO, CTO, IT Director, Program Manager etc. **Purpose of this Business Technology (Senior) Director role**: We are looking to hire someone at Director or Senior Director level who has a successful track record within the consulting market, combining a blend of operational and commercial skills, an entrepreneurial approach and networks across the French Technology community. The role will involve both selling and delivering initial rapid diagnostic into a company's immediate and future major issues. This will include our market-leading IT Due Diligence (ITDD) product, focusing on profitability, cost base, processes and all other options for performance improvement. This is a great opportunity for an individual to use their senior market network and industry experience to become involved and be an integral part of a ‘hands on’ high performance team. As a valued and senior member of the team, you will work on a variety of pan-European assignments, leveraging your industry knowledge and experience supporting clients across a broad range of mission critical situations. The SD will work closely with Partners/Managing Directors, taking on mentoring and coaching roles for more junior staff members, aligned with the BT practice broader staff development strategy. You will benefit from constant exposure to some of the toughest and critical challenges facing the Private Equity industry and our clients and need to be comfortable with driving change and delivering outstanding results. **Responsibilities at Director/Senior Director level**: The (Senior) Director "SD" role will bring market leading strategic insight into the power and role of IT in private equity owned and corporate businesses, offering deep functional knowledge and insight, a blend of operational and commercial skills and an entrepreneurial approach. Specifically, the SD will be tasked to: - Building a robust yet flexible plan to generate both deal flow and develop a sustainable business, externally and internally. The successful appointee will be an experienced in selling and delivering consulting assignments; - Contribute strongly to business development activity including pitches and selling, on from the initial “diagnostic” project phase into implementation work; - Grow our practice through strengthening our Business Technology business, broadening out our routes to market, developing and leveraging senior relationships and working with our European partnership group; - Initial rapid diagnostics & DD’s looking into a company's immediate and future major Technology issues, digital propositions, product profitability, cost base, processes, and overall options for perfor