Associate (m/f/d) - Operations & Manufacturing

Location: Frankfurt, Germany

Date Posted: Aug 1, 2025

Description

Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement

Associate (m/f/d) - Operations & Manufacturing

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.

With over 11,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M's restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

A&M's Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) practice focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged A&M to diligence potential acquisition targets in pre-deal situations as well as help improve operating results at their portfolio companies. Our area of expertise is integrated pre-deal due diligence assistance and supporting performing companies to deliver a growth strategy as well as supporting under-performing with a need to reorganize or take costs out. Working directly with company management, A&M helps stabilize financial and operational performance by developing and implementing comprehensive profitability and working capital improvement measures.

Private Equity Focused Professionals

We bring a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value. We provide private equity clients with a broad continuum of knowledge and tools for cost improvements, transformations, mergers, acquisitions, and carve-outs.

A&M's Operations professionals assist our clients in analyzing manufacturing operations, supply chain and distribution channels, procurement, SG&A operations, and sales force effectiveness for potential value creation opportunities and to help drive them during our client's ownership. From our thorough fact-based analysis, we assess state of operations, identify key risks to investment and quantify potential EBITDA improvement plans for the buyer and seller.

The PEPI Operations group is a growing business targeting high growth in the next two to four years. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and leadership skills. The leadership team is focused on providing development opportunities, training, and exposure to international business assignments.

Responsibilities:

We are seeking individuals that can lead and deliver large, complex client engagements, working closely with PE leadership to identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for their portfolio companies. Associates (m/f/d) frequently assist with the following types of engagements:

Gain a comprehensive understanding of a target's manufacturing and distribution operations

• • organization design, production capacity, efficiency, quality, planning, warehousing and team capability.

• Evaluate the maintainability and operability of production facilities

• Review current and historical data to understand efficiency & capacity, including equipment conditions, maintenance logs, spare parts and detailed production numbers.

• Provide shop floor insights by talking with employees and customers and reviewing all available data

• Identify potential cost improvement opportunities through lean improvements, outsourcing or consolidation of facilities

• Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes and identify key risks and mitigation strategies

• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 plus years of professional experience, with a minimum of 3 years specializing in manufacturing and/or distribution functions

• Deep functional expertise in at least one of the following areas:

• Supply Chain Operations

• Manufacturing Operations, SI&OP

• Footprint optimization, plant consolidation and product line transfer

• Manufacturing strategy, CapEx planning, Manufacturing 4.0/IIoT

• Lean, Six Sigma, TOC and Value Engineering

• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis

• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally focused and externally focused change/communications strategy.

• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis

• Master's degree from an accredited university is essential
• Fluency to a native level both written and verbal English and German is essential

If you want to be part of A&M's success story and would like to grow in a dynamic environment, we are looking forward to your application.

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.