Associate, Corporate Strategy & Operational Transformation

Company Overview

A leading global alternative investment manager offers clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure asset classes. They are seeking a versatile and highly motivated Associate to join the Corporate Strategy - Operational Strategy Group.

Job Responsibilities

• Support operational acquisition integration and large-scale transformation initiatives by coordinating across business stakeholders, corporate functions, and third-party service providers.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent integration workstreams, ensuring alignment to the master integration plan, including Day 1 readiness, Day 100 planning, and longer-term value creation priorities.
• Serve as a program support partner, connecting dots across workstreams, identifying dependencies, and helping teams stay coordinated and accountable against key milestones.
• Drive integration of operating models, business processes, and systems across acquired or merging entities.
• Partner with Growth Strategy and corporate leadership to identify and execute operational synergies, including cost optimization, revenue enhancement, and scalability initiatives.
• Prepare executive-level presentations to stakeholders, summarizing integration progress, risks, and value realization outcomes.
• Own end-to-end project lifecycle across multiple concurrent initiatives, focusing on dependency management across integration workstreams.
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams to translate integration requirements into scalable solutions.
• Identify and document best practices for operational integration, including process standardization, governance routines, performance tracking, and recurring reporting cadences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or related discipline.
• 4-7 years in the COO Office, Transformation Office, Enterprise PMO, Integration Management Office (IMO), or management consulting.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional transformation, integration, or strategic initiatives.
• Advanced PowerPoint and storytelling capabilities.
• Program management expertise, including dependency, risk, and stakeholder management.
• Alternative Investments domain knowledge.
• Operating model redesign, process improvement, or integration experience.

Compensation

Salary: $120,000 - $130,000, Plus Bonus