Senior Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions (Consumer & Industrial Products)
About the role
Are you ready to make an impact?
West Monroe is seeking a Senior Manager to join our Mergers & Acquisitions practice focused on clients in the Consumer & Industrial Products sector. Our team partners with private equity sponsors and strategic clients across the deal lifecycle, helping them evaluate investments, understand operational and technology implications, and identify opportunities to create value. As a Senior Manager, you will lead complex transaction advisory and post-close engagements, working directly with investment professionals, executives, and portfolio company leaders. You will have the opportunity to take on a broad range of M&A work, lead client relationships from the front, and bring your perspective to the decisions that matter most.
What You Will Do
Client Delivery
- Lead complex buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory engagements for private equity and corporate clients across Consumer & Industrial Products.
- Lead operational, technology, software, and other functional diligence workstreams, evaluating the capabilities, risks, performance drivers, and opportunities that matter to an investment decision.
- Partner directly with investment professionals, executives, and portfolio company leaders to assess investment theses, challenge assumptions, and develop clear perspectives on transaction risks and opportunities.
- Translate complex findings into concise, executive-level recommendations and help clients understand the implications for transaction strategy, priorities, and value.
- Own engagement delivery from strategy through completion, including scope, economics, staffing, quality, risk, and client relationships.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
- Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.
Business Development
- Build trusted relationships with private equity sponsors, investment professionals, corporate development leaders, and executives and identify opportunities across existing and prospective accounts.
- Lead pursuits, shape solutions, develop proposals, and bring differentiated M&A and Consumer & Industrial Products perspectives to clients.
- Help expand West Monroe’s presence in the C&IP M&A market through client relationships, industry activity, and thought leadership.
Practice Development
- Help shape and grow West Monroe’s C&IP M&A capabilities, methodologies, and intellectual capital.
- Coach and develop consultants and help build the next generation of M&A leaders.
- Contribute to recruiting, thought leadership, and initiatives that strengthen the team and practice.
What You Will Bring
- 8+ years of management consulting, transaction advisory, operational consulting, technology consulting, or related experience supporting mergers and acquisitions.
- Demonstrated experience leading operational, technology, software, or IT due diligence engagements for private equity investors and/or corporate buyers.
- Experience evaluating operating models, technology environments, organizational capabilities, and operational risks to inform investment decisions and identify opportunities.
- Proven ability to lead complex engagements and multiple workstreams while managing senior client relationships, engagement economics, quality, and delivery.
- Executive presence with experience presenting recommendations to C-suite executives, investment professionals, operating partners, and portfolio company leadership.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to turn complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Understanding of how diligence findings inform transaction strategy, integration priorities, and opportunities to create value beyond the transaction.
- Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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