New Job Opening: Director - Operating Model Design in USA

Managing Director – PE, Value Creation / Operating Model design

United States | Full Time | Hybrid (multiple office locations)

Confidential Search – High-Growth Advisory Firm

$200k to $250k base (plus bonus, equity and overtime)

We are seeking an experienced Operating Model & Organisation Design professional to lead transformation engagements with senior leadership teams and private equity-backed businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead operating model diagnostics: organizational design, span-of-control analysis, decision rights (RACI/RAPID) mapping.


• Work with management teams to identify centralization of shared services, relocate shared service centers, evaluate outsourcing/offshoring ROI and build an execution plan to build the future state.


• Design and implement SG&A optimization and shared services/COE structures.


• Build cost-to-serve models linking organizational structure to profitability by customer/channel/product line.


• Support carve-out and integration operating model design for PE add-on and platform transactions.


• Build operating model methodology and delivery collateral (frameworks, benchmarks, case studies).


• Partner with portfolio company CEOs/CHROs on change management and org design rollout.


• Support 100-day value creation planning with an operating model lens for new platform investments.


• Represent operating model expertise in sponsor-facing BD conversations.

Experience required:

• 10+ years' experience in strategy consulting and operating model/org design.


• Experience gained within top-tier strategy consulting firms, including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Strategy& or similar.


• Experiene with PE-backed companies preferred, particularly around carve-outs, platform buildouts, or post-merger integration


• Strong quantitative modeling skills (cost-to-serve, span-of-control benchmarking).


• Executive presence sufficient to lead sensitive organizational design conversations with C-suite and boards