Senior Director Transaction Services
Simon-Kucher is a renowned global consulting firm that has shown staggering growth over the past decade. The Senior Director Transaction Services will shape, lead, and grow the company’s new proposition in the Dutch market: Commercial Due Diligences. The position is well-suited for an experienced Strategy Consultant looking for an entrepreneurial challenge.
About Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher helps its clients address strategic topics such as revenue growth, pricing, digital, marketing, and sales. Its ultimate measure of success is the success of its clients. That’s why the consultancy tailors every project to the specific needs of its clients. With solutions made to last, Simon-Kucher boosts its clients’ revenues and profits – faster, better, and more sustainably than anyone else.
Simon-Kucher is a globally recognized brand with over two thousand employees across forty-two offices in twenty-seven countries. The Amsterdam office opened in 2008, and its six Partners and around sixty Consultants serve the Dutch market across all industries, with a key focus on Consumer Goods, Industrials and TMT (technology, media, and telecom).
Simon-Kucher has quadrupled its global revenues in the past ten years and is one of the fastest-growing strategy consulting firms in the world. To continue its growth, the firm is expanding its focus to address the commercial due diligence requirements of its private equity and corporate clients, helping them invest in the right businesses. The consultancy has huge ambitions with this newly created Transaction Services proposition, both internationally and in the Netherlands.
Requirements*
- Over 8 years of work experience
- Background at a top-tier Strategy Consulting firm
- Experience with commercial due diligence
- Entrepreneurial
- Experience in leading high-performing teams
Research shows that while male candidates feel confident enough to apply when they meet about 60% of the requirements, female candidates only apply when they tick every box. So if this role has your name on it, but you’re not sure about the criteria, we still want to hear from you.
At Simon-Kucher, we set high standards for ourselves and each other and continuously strive to achieve the very best for our clients. We put a strong emphasis on professional development, value personal connections, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Senior Director Transaction Services
The Senior Director Transaction Services will shape the new commercial due diligence business in the Netherlands. Main responsibilities include building, growing, and leading the Transaction Services team and developing, marketing, and selling the proposition in the Dutch market. The Senior Director Transaction Services will be supported by the Partner team in the Amsterdam office and by Mark Maitland, the UK-based Head of Transaction Services who oversees Simon-Kucher’s Transaction Services efforts in the UK and the Netherlands. If successful in this role, the Senior Director Transaction Services is primed to make Partner in the organization.
The Senior Director Transaction Services will own the new proposition in its full breadth: from marketing, business development, and recruitment of a dedicated team to project delivery and building and maintaining client relations. Target clients are mainly mid- to large-cap PE funds, with many of which Simon-Kucher already has strong ties. The Senior Director Transaction Services core focus will be commercial DDs with investment theses mainly revolving around growth. They will also collaborate with other parts of Simon-Kucher on (cross-border) projects and support clients with related challenges.
Building, leading, and coaching the team is one of the primary responsibilities of the Senior Director Transaction Services. They will support the team throughout project execution and take on an active role in creating high-quality output. The Senior Director Transaction Services will manage the workstreams, develop the main deal hypotheses, build the workplan, and storyboard and present compelling presentations to their clients to guide their decision-making.
The position provides the chance to build a business from the very beginning in an entrepreneurial environment where they will get full ownership and experience a steep learning curve. The Senior Director Transaction Services will be commercially responsible for the success of the team in Amsterdam.
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