(Managing) Director People & Organization Practice (m/f/d)
We are looking for you to further strengthen our People & Organization Practice in one of the following offices: Amsterdam, London or Munich.
The internal „People & Organization Practice” advises and supports Aurelius’ portfolio companies in accelerating value creation along the life cycle, from HR/ Organizational Due Diligence to building and launching 100d and operating model transformation plans until exit. This is a high-impact, advisory-focused position where you will be one of the key advisors for People and Organization matters, driving both compliance and value optimization across a growing portfolio.
Due to the rapid growth of our investment portfolio, the tasks and duties of this role may also evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.
Key responsibilities
You’ll act as a strategic in-house advisor to AURELIUS’s portfolio companies, helping them manage their HR affairs in a pragmatic, value-focused manner. Your responsibilities will span the full investment lifecycle, from acquisition to exit — giving you a seat at the table during critical phases of value creation. Specifically, you will be responsible for:
Organizational Due Diligence:
- Perform HR/ Organizational DD, assess organizational setup and critical HR data, identify integration risks and organizational red flags
- Define requirements for Day1 solution
Organizational Readiness/ Operating model design:
- Lead the design and development of scalable, efficient Operating Models tailored to the strategic objectives of our portfolio companies.
- Develop organizational structures and governance frameworks to support the operating model, including the analysis and redevelopment of core processes where required
- Support recruitment and reskilling efforts as well as rightsizing initiatives
- Guide and support setup of payroll, HRIS, people analytics, and process automation tools
- Develop and deliver training sessions and capability-building initiatives on Operating Model design and implementation — both within portfolio companies and internally across our firm
Organizational mobilization:
- Assess organizational health and drive implementation of an agile, performance-driven culture
- Enable change management & internal communications focusing on retention/ engagement
People & Organization practice development
- Support Practice lead in further practice development, incl. hiring, training and mentoring of team members
- Create playbooks and frameworks to further professionalize the Aurelius Operating model
- Design and implement functional playbooks and standards along the PE life cycle
Prerequisites
- University degree preferably in business administration with a major in in HR/ Organization/ Psychology
- Min. of 15 yrs. of working experience
- Background in a consultancy with focus on People & Organization with strong implementation focus
- Additionally, operational experience in an HR role in mid-sized companies
- Track record driving Organizational transformation with experience in operating model design and implementation
- Experience conducting organizational due diligence is beneficial as well as experience working in a PE-backed company
- Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork
- Practical, hands-on mentality
- Fluent in English, further language skills welcome
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate large scale IT programs e.g., IT Carve-out, IT Transformation, ERP modernization as part of the Project Management Office
- Manage project status, key tasks and risks to ensure program success
- As part of an IT expert team execute IT due diligence on potential large size target companies
- Create red-flag reports, draft carve-out scenarios and estimate associated costs
- Coach business and IT stakeholder of the portfolio companies to understand standard IT terms and processes as well as project methodology, roles, and deliverables
- Analyse poorly defined problems, moderate solution finding process and suggest solution alternatives
Qualifications required
- You are an experienced IT all-rounder with knowledge in several IT areas e.g., IT Strategy and Governance, application and infrastructure management, service delivery or IT-security
- Successfully completed studies in computer science, natural sciences, engineering, or economics
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally in the context of an IT consulting, IT company or as IT Lead in the Industry
- Experience in IT projects management in the field of IT carve-out, M&A, IT transformation or development of IT landscapes or applications as stream lead or sub-project lead
- You work in a consulting-oriented manner and able to use your broad knowledge in a wide variety of situations
- Excellent communication combined with strong analytical skills
- Entrepreneurial thinking and acting, implementation strength and business/commercial acumen
- Ability to travel regularly
- Fluent in English, other language skills are welcome
Our offer
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package
- The opportunity to implement your own ideas and create real entrepreneurial added value
- Flat hierarchy with very fast decision making
- End-to-end view of the portfolio companies through their Aurelius lifecycle from due diligence to divestment
- Dynamic career development in a very successful and rapidly growing investment company
- Flexible place of work in a country in which an AURELIUS location is represented
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will play a crucial part in the reorganization and restructuring of our portfolio companies following an acquisition by AURELIUS. Collaborating closely with the existing management team, your primary focus will be to develop and execute comprehensive transformation and restructuring plans that maximize the long-term value of each firm.
This position offers a unique blend of strategic and hands-on responsibilities, allowing you to lead and contribute to a range of captivating projects from inception to successful implementation. Typically spending 12 months on site, you will actively drive the enhancement of competitiveness and profitability for our portfolio companies.
Qualifications required
- Degree in business administration, finance, engineering, or a related field.
- 5-10 years of professional experience in either consulting or industry
- Expertise in restructuring and operations, with a proven track record in leading teams or projects.
- Genuine interest in the private equity industry, showcasing your passion for driving growth and delivering exceptional change.
- Analytical thinking, a results-oriented personality, a well-developed sense of responsibility, and a strong commitment to teamwork and collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills and an entrepreneurial spirit.
If you are seeking an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within the private equity sector, while working alongside a team of 180 in-house operating taskforce experts, we invite you to apply.
Take the next step in your career by joining AURELIUS Group today. Together, we will unlock the true potential of our portfolio companies. Apply now!
Responsibilities
Immediately after the acquisition of a new investment through AURELIUS, you will take over the full responsibility for the transformation of the company. Your main task is, together with the established management, to elaborate and implement the strategy, the equity story and a comprehensive added-value concept in the company. Throughout this journey you have the possibility to support the value creation plan from the analysis to the final implementation and be engaged in driving change as well as increasing the overall competitiveness, profitability and sustainable increase of the company value. You will be able to rely on the support of the AURELIUS’ task force and the extensive toolset of the AURELIUS’ operating model.
Qualifications required
- Well-experienced and pragmatic manager with at least five years of leadership responsibility in a medium-sized and/or private equity backed company.
- Consultancy background paired with a profound understanding of commercial, sales and technical topics.
- Experienced in change processes and a proven track record in the operational, strategic, structural and cultural transformation of companies.
- Self-confident and determined as well as a pragmatic “hands-on” result-oriented mentality with an eye for the big picture.
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality.
- Analytical / strategical thinking, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork.
- Cost awareness, an instinct for business and the ability to implement.
- Experience in building up and developing management teams and the capability to lead these through critical transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed.
- Extensive travel and presence on site is a prerequisite.
- Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required).
Our offer
You will be working in a highly dynamic environment with core values such as entrepreneurial spirit, pragmatism and a no-blame and no-politics culture. We offer an attractive development path through the AURELIUS Academy and the opportunity to eventually build up your own investment portfolio as a Senior Managing Director.
Further to your base renumeration and in accordance with the entrepreneurial assignment you have the possibility to participate in the value growth of “your” company and thereby profit from your own success.
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.
Responsibilities:
- Perform specific due diligence tasks during the company acquisition process
- Perform quick-check-analysis for optimisation potential in portfolio companies after acquisition
- Optimisation of the finance organisation
- Optimisation of forecasting and budgeting processes
- Supporting the CFO / FD in the transition to the new ownership and setting the benchmark for internal reporting requirements
- Preparation of integrated budgets and forecasts including indirect cash flow planning
- Short-term liquidity planning and management
- Supporting the operational implementation of different financial products
- Contact person for different financing partners (banks, 2nd lien lenders, credit insurers)
- Building up controlling structures and KPI-systems supporting data-driven management and control
- Gap analysis, identification, and implementation of immediate countermeasures
Qualifications required
- University degree / suitable experience in business / economics and strong analytical skills
- At least three years relevant experience, preferably with a top management consulting firm or Big4
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality
- Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork
- Practical, hands-on mentality
- Capability to lead teams through critical transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed
- Extensive travel required
- Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required)
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
Responsibilities
The internal „Finance Task-Force“ advises and supports our portfolio companies in accelerating value creation along the life cycle, from Finance Due Diligence to building and launching 100d and transformation plans until exit. The functional spectrum of the Finance Practice ranges from optimisation and realignment of commercial structures and processes to budget and cash flow planning, internal and external stakeholder management as well as the associated reporting and controlling systems.
Core tasks
- Support of Practice Partner in further practice development, incl. hiring, training and mentoring of team members
- Design and implementation of functional playbooks and standards along the PE life cycle
- Project-based leadership of practice teams and teams in portfolio companies
- Execution of Finance Due Diligence in the context of company acquisitions
- Elaboration of quick-check potential analysis post-acquisition
- Design and implementation of future Target Operating Models
- Design and implementation of quick-wins and systematic initiatives to improve EBITDA and Working Capital
Qualifications required
- University degree / suitable experience in business / economics and strong analytical skills
- At least 10 years relevant experience, preferably with a top management consulting firm or Big4
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality
- Analytical and strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork capabilities
- Practical, hands-on mentality
- Capability to lead teams through critical and complex transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed
- Extensive travel required (up to 4 days per week)
- Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required)
Our offer
- The possibility to drive value from ideation through to realization and have true entrepreneurial impact
- Dynamic career development in a successful private equity firm with a steep growth trajectory
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package
- Flexible place of work in a country in which an AURELIUS location is represented
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.