Senior Manager / Associate Director Commercial Excellence (m/f/d) - Germany

About Mutares

Mutares SE & Co. KGaA, Munich (www.mutares.com), as a listed private equity holding company, acquires medium-sized companies in special situations, based in Europe, which show significant operational improvement potential and are sold again after undergoing a repositioning and stabilization process. Mutares actively support its portfolio companies with its own investment and consulting teams and through strategic add-on acquisitions. The focus is on companies with revenues of EUR 100 million to EUR 750 million from the following segments: Automotive & Mobility, Engineering & Technology, Goods & Services and Retail & Food. The aim is to achieve a clear value increase with a focus on sustainable, long-term growth of the portfolio company.

Within our OPS team, we are looking to hire a leader who has a successful track record in Commercial Excellence, Lean Management with a continuous improvement attitude and an entrepreneurial mindset. This role will be located at portfolio companies, on site across Europe.

Your Tasks

In this role, you will support Mutares’ invested portfolio companies. Your responsibility is to assist with the overall transformation strategy, identifying business improvement opportunities, and implementing and tracking those initiatives together with the local management team to improve the business performance.

• Business analysis: Conducting bottom-up, detailed analysis for underlying business to provide full transparency for the risks and opportunities right after the acquisition and identifying areas of improvement
• Initiative implementation: Collaborate with the local team to achieve targeted improvements, ensure transparency through tracking and reporting, provide risk analysis and mitigation for deviations, and foster a continuous improvement culture within the portfolio company
• Strategic setup: Conducting an overarching strategy analysis for the portfolio company within the Mutares portfolio to seek for potential synergies
• Operational DD: Supporting the M&A team in due diligence and identifying improvement potentials to structure the deal case

Your Profile

• At least 7-9 years of international experience in a Commercial Excellence role in industry or consulting, with 1 year of experience in consulting being a prerequisite
• Master studies in the field of economics, finance, engineering, marketing or similar with outstanding results
• Experience in the automotive industry
• Structured, pragmatic and hands-on approach to solve problems and drive impact combined with an entrepreneurial and team mindset
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams in complex situations with strong commitment and motivation
• Willingness to travel 4 days per week  within Europe (typ. Mo-Thu) and fluency in English and German (written and spoken), another European Language is a plus

What Mutares offers

• Work in a highly motivated, international, committed, and agile team that enjoys working together
• Exciting work environment with varied challenges, strategic influence, and tasks for continuous personal and professional development
• Flat hierarchies, fast decision-making processes, and room for your own ideas
• Intensive on-boarding phase in a collegial environment
• Regular team events and offsites