Director – Turnaround

Location: Paris, France

Date Posted: Dec 30, 2025

Description

Director, Financial & Operational Restructuring (FOR)

Alvarez & Marsal

Paris

Director – Turnaround & Restructuring

Alvarez & Marsal | Paris, France

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action- and results-oriented professionals in more than 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and helping them reach their full potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who create meaningful impact for clients and help shape the industry. Guided by our core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity, A&M offers a collaborative environment and engaging work that our people are proud of.

The Team

A&M's Turnaround & Restructuring team in Paris is a core part of the firm's European restructuring platform. The team advises corporates, private equity sponsors, lenders, and other stakeholders across a wide range of stressed and distressed situations, from early-stage performance challenges to complex restructuring and turnaround mandates.

Professionals in the Paris team work on high-impact, time-critical engagements, often with senior-level stakeholders, and benefit from close collaboration with colleagues across Europe and globally. The team offers significant exposure to complex situations, strong professional development opportunities, and the ability to make a tangible difference for clients when it matters most.

How You Will Contribute

As a Director in the Turnaround & Restructuring practice, you will play a leadership role in delivering operational restructuring engagements and supporting the continued growth of the practice in France and across Europe. You will work closely with senior client stakeholders and A&M leadership to drive execution, improve operational performance, and create sustainable value.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading operational restructuring engagements for underperforming or stressed businesses
• Diagnosing operational inefficiencies and developing actionable improvement plans
• Redesigning organizational structures, processes, and governance to drive performance
• Implementing cost optimization and efficiency initiatives across functions and business units
• Supporting operational turnaround initiatives, including workforce realignment, supply chain optimization, and performance management enhancements
• Acting as a trusted advisor to management teams, boards, shareholders, and investors on operational strategy and transformation
• Overseeing performance metrics, operational modeling, and reporting to support informed decision-making
• Leading, mentoring, and developing project teams across multiple engagements
• Contributing to business development efforts, including proposals, pitches, and relationship building with key stakeholders

Qualifications

• 10 + years of relevant experience in operational restructuring, management consulting, operations improvement, or turnaround management
• Strong experience advising companies in operational distress or underperformance situations
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder environments, including management teams and boards
• Deep operational, analytical, and problem-solving skillset with a focus on performance improvement
• Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to manage and develop teams
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong commercial awareness
• Fluency in French and English (written and spoken)

A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can 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 the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

It is Alvarez & Marsal's practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. .

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.