Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions - Associate Director

Today’s environment requires businesses to rapidly address dynamic conditions to optimize earnings and cash. Riveron helps public and private organizations improve business performance, align the enterprise operating model for growth, and achieve strategic objectives.

Riveron brings functional leadership, subject matter expertise, and proprietary tools to align business performance with growth and strategic objectives. We target your core operational and financial performance drivers to improve profitability, increase spend effectiveness, and improve overall working capital.

Our Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions team focuses on serving the upper middle market and large cap public and private organizations to improve operating results. We assist our clients in analyzing manufacturing operations, supply chain and distribution channels, procurement, SG&A operations and sales force effectiveness for potential value creation opportunities. From our thorough fact-based analysis, we assess the state of operations, identify key risks to investment and quantify potential improvement plans. From there, we then implement changes to drive EBITDA improvements. 

• 7 plus years of combined professional industry and consulting experience, with a minimum of 4 years specializing in manufacturing and/or distribution functions
• Previous advisory experience from a top-tier strategy firm, leading specialist, niche advisory firm, or Big-4 consultancy preferred
• Experience working for or with private equity sponsors and portfolio companies
• Deep functional expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• o    Supply Chain Operations
• o    Manufacturing Operations, SI&OP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning)
• o    Footprint optimization, plant consolidation and product line transfer
• o    Manufacturing strategy, CapEx planning, Manufacturing 4.0/IIoT
• o    Lean, Six Sigma, TOC and Value Engineering
• Demonstrated track record working with C-suite executives as well as private equity deal and operating partners
• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally focused and externally focused change/communications strategy
• Previous strategy and change management experience
• Ability and desire to travel as required based on client location

• We are seeking individuals that can lead and deliver large, complex client engagements, working closely with executive leadership to identify, design, and implement creative business solutions.  In this role, Associate Directors will:
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of a company’s manufacturing and distribution operations-- organization design, production capacity, efficiency, quality, planning, warehousing and team capability.
• Evaluate the maintainability and operability of production facilities.
• Review current and historical data to understand efficiency & capacity, including equipment conditions, maintenance logs, spare parts and detailed production numbers.
• Provide shop floor insights by talking with employees and customers and reviewing all available data.
• Identify potential cost improvement opportunities through lean improvements, outsourcing or consolidation of facilities.
• Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes and identify key risks and mitigation strategies.
• Execute and oversee approved transformation plans, in alignment with executive leadership.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

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