Manager, CRG - Global Capability Center

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**Description** **About Alvarez & Marsal** Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who 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 why our people love working at A&M. For details, please visit the company website: http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com **About A&M Global Capability Center Private Limited** In 2023, A&M established a high-quality global capability center in India. The capability center has dedicated centers of expertise which work with A&M leadership across multiple business units and geographies to enable efficient service delivery to A&M clients. The GCC is designed to efficiently and innovatively scale client delivery teams to meet ongoing demands. It helps A&M's global business units expand their talent pool in India, allowing them to hire specialized professionals, maintain competitive pricing, accelerate delivery speeds with a hybrid onshore-offshore team, and leverage automation with top-tier digital and analytics talent. The GCC blends industry and consulting professionals across multiple domains to drive change and add value. Unlike traditional GCC models focused on back-office support, we partner with case teams for end-to-end case delivery and thought leadership. Nearly 90% of our consultants hold advanced degrees, and our leadership team boasts over 1000 years of combined experience. We serve all major markets, including the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and work across various industries such as Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Software & Technology, Automotive & Industrials, Hospitality & Leisure, Energy & Natural Resources, and Financial Services. As we embark on this unique journey, the firm is actively seeking to build a strong, capable team for the center. The GCC is growing rapidly and is already a 1000+ member team. **The Team** Alvarez and Marsal’s dedicated Consumer and Retail Group (CRG) professionals work with global CRG companies to provide independent analysis and end-to-end services across Corporate Transformation programs. Pulling from Alvarez & Marsal’s restructuring heritage, A&M’s Consumer and Retail Group combines the best of A&M’s bias toward action and practicality with deep industry experience as both consultants and operators. We are a team of seasoned consultants and world-class operators who are truly passionate about the consumer and retail industries we serve. Through our deep experience in the industry, we first-hand witness the overwhelming disruptions and challenges facing consumer and retail companies. Alvarez & Marsal’s Corporate Transformation business is rapidly growing its GCC CRG team. To continue our success and to support our ambitious growth plans, we are currently looking for a Senior Associate to join our Gurgaon team. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to use your outstanding business and analytical acumen, along with problem solving skills to become an integral part of our successful ‘hands-on’ team. As a valued member of the A&M Global CRG team based in Gurgaon, you will be working on high-impact projects across A&M’s Global offices, and across the entire project life cycle, including conducting detailed market analysis, developing and executing growth strategy, implementing operational improvements, and driving financial performance enhancements to deliver measurable results for our clients. **How you will contribute?** As a Manager, you will be working closely with Senior Directors and Managing Directors in a flat team structure. You will likely lead key work streams and benefit from constant exposure to the senior members of the team and client, and gain ‘on-the-job’ learning and development, leveraging on their substantial experience. Alongside, you will also be validating and executing on operations-focused problem solving and transformation activities on our clients’ projects. Additionally, you will also have the chance to contribute to business development activities, discuss and suggest the development of innovative offerings for our market and considerably nurture and enlarge your professional network as well. Considering the pace of targeted growth, we are keen to find people who are entrepreneurial, driven by a passion to drive significant growth (people who can think in multiples of growth rather than percentages), are comfortable with ambiguity, will roll up the sleeves and be hands on to get things done and can be independent requiring limited cover. The role will be initially based in Gurgaon. However, the person should be open to travel as and when needed and should be open to relocate to Mumbai or Bengaluru as the capability center scales and decide to relocate. Key Responsibilities Develop/ Deliver CRG solutions - Actively contribute as a member of the CRG team to develop/ deliver solutions within the Consumer Products (Food & Beverage, Personal Care, Household Goods, Health & Wellness, Electronics etc.) and Retail domain (Grocery, Apparel, Department Stores/ General Merchandise, E-Commerce, B2B Retail etc.) - Own medium to complex work-streams with support from supervisors - Perform benchmarking across relevant CRG financial and operational metrics to identify areas of potential underperformance - Develop expertise on various Consumer Products and Retail industry sub-sectors or clients to enhance overall project insights and strategies - Work with different analytical tools with focus on building expertise in Tableau/ Power BI, Alteryx/ Python, Excel and PowerPoint Own stakeholder relationships - Interpret, und