Senior Associate, Performance Improvement

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview:

Ankura’s Performance Improvement practice provides extensive multi-industry expertise combined with data- driven, objective, and innovative approaches to the most complex business challenges. Our significant experience working with companies at critical inflection points in their lifecycles has informed our approach and instilled a sense of urgency in solving our clients problems. Our team has worked with numerous clients to build value and accelerate business performance through strategy setting and execution, business and operating model design, acquisition and merger support, market-entry strategy, and channel and product strategy. We typically focus on areas such as marketing effectiveness, product assortment optimization, inventory and working capital optimization, supply chain and network design, transportation, shop floor manufacturing, direct and indirect spend, and organizational efficiencies.

Role Overview:

The ideal candidate for this role would be based in Chicago or New York. When not traveling, this role would be hybrid splitting time between working in office and remotely.

Responsibilities:

• Independently structure basic issue analyses which contribute to hypothesis generation

• Build analytical tools and financial analyses that show a proper understanding of competing needs (timing, flexibility, detail, risk) with limited direction

• Identifies and articulates opportunities for more advanced analytic approaches outside of basic Excel

• Drafts client ready data requests

• Manages administrative and organizational matters of engagement

• Assembles reports, graphs, and tables with limited guidance

• Presents work, as required, both internally and to clients

• Interfaces directly with more senior clients to gather data and develop analyses in areas of responsibility

• Demonstrates a basic understanding of one or more industries

• Beginning to identify potential issues related to complex operational issues

• Understands common industry terms and concepts

• Understands key activities of operations consulting engagements

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years of consulting experience with a top tier management consulting firm

• An undergraduate degree from a top academic institution with a strong GPA

• Experience with quantitative modeling and advanced analytics

• Ability and willingness to travel in support of delivering client value

• Willingness to meet demanding client needs (work volume, responsiveness, personal conflicts)

• Financial and operational acumen

• Ability to identify challenges, prioritize opportunities, develop solutions, and plan execution

• Demonstrates ability to synthesize and communicate analysis in a clear and concise manner

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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