Senior Manager, Applied AI Value Creation, M&A Practice

Job summary

Are you ready to make an impact? Wes*** is seeking a Senior Manager to join our Applied AI Value Creation team. This role is designed for an experienced consulting leader who combines deep industry or functional expertise with AI-enabled transformation to help Private Equity Portfolio Companies accelerate value creation across strategy, operations, technology, and data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of consulting, digital transformation, operations transformation, product strategy, technology delivery, or AI-enabled business transformation experience.
• Demonstrated success leading complex consulting engagements from strategy through implementation with executive-level client accountability.
• Experience developing business cases, value creation roadmaps, operating models, KPI frameworks, and enterprise transformation strategies.
• Experience identifying and quantifying value creation opportunities impacting revenue growth, EBITDA improvement, operating efficiency, cost optimization, or working capital.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, workflow orchestration, and enterprise AI adoption.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and implementing AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to understand and challenge enterprise architectures spanning applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, security, workflow

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Manager, you will lead complex client engagements that identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact AI solutions across the enterprise.
• You will partner closely with executive business and technology leaders to translate strategic objectives into practical AI-enabled operating models, transformation roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes.
• Lead complex AI-enabled transformation engagements from strategy through implementation, serving as the primary engagement leader and trusted advisor to executive client stakeholders.
• Build trusted executive relationships that drive successful client outcomes while identifying opportunities to expand existing engagements and develop new business.
• Partner with client executives, business leaders, product teams, and technology organizations to identify strategic opportunities where AI can create measurable business value.
• Lead discovery workshops to define business problems, desired outcomes, operational constraints, adoption risks, and implementation priorities.
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into future-state operating models, AI strategies, value creation roadmaps, prioritized use cases, and executable implementation plans.
• Advise clients on the appropriate application of Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, workflow automation, and modern data platforms.
• Design AI-enabled operating models that incorporate governance, human-in-the-loop processes, security, change management, adoption planning, and value realization metrics.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams of consultants, AI specialists, software engineers, data scientists, and client stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Partner with engineering teams to assess solution feasibility, define implementation sequencing, and accelerate delivery from prototype through production deployment.
• Manage engagement scope, staffing, financial performance, quality, delivery risk, and executive communications across multiple concurrent engagements.

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