Alvarez And Marsal Dubai Jobs 2022 – Apply Online Managing Director Vacancy in Dubai, UAE

Company Overview
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. A&M’s leadership is about a bias towards action and the willingness to tell clients what we think is needed. Our restructuring heritage sharpens our ability to act decisively. Clients select us for our deep expertise and ability to create and deliver practical, rather than theoretical, solutions to their unique problems in addition to our objectivity.
Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.
With over 5,000 people across four continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what’s really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.
A&M’s Travel, Hospitality and Leisure Practice
Our highly respected pan EMEA team is built on deep industry sector expertise with a demonstrably differentiated ability to address the most complex business problems and deliver dramatic and sustainable business performance improvements. The Travel, Hospitability and Leisure (THL) practice provides clients with solutions to complex business issues in the key areas of large-scale transformation and restructuring, pre-deal commercial and operational M&A advice, post-merger integration, carve-out, 100-day improvement plan, quantified EBITDA / cash improvements, comprehensive bottom-up assessment, market and portfolio strategy, feasibility studies and, interim leadership. The team brings unrivalled experience from both in-industry leadership roles and advisory roles and works hand-in-hand with sector experts in related A&M expert practices, such as Financial Due Diligence (TAG), Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigations as one team for clients.
Our team of senior professionals have not just capabilities as advisors but in many cases also a proven and successful track record as a senior level executive in operational roles. Across all levels, our professionals work in a “hands-on”, action-oriented style with senior client management, and with the entrepreneurial freedom and opportunities which are at the heart of A&M’s culture.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a strong leader to join us at Managing Director level, who working hand-in-hand and as a member of both our EMEA THL leadership and Middle East regional leadership, will be a major voice in defining the go to market and building an advisory team specialised in Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure in the Middle East at a time when A&M are heavily investing in this sector and region. You will manage and deliver client engagements, win new business, and develop a world class team.
You will be experienced in operational and / or commercial solutions that address businesses critical issues either in an advisory capacity or taking the reins in an interim C-Suite role. You will operate at EMEA level and, leveraging A&M’s brand and expertise, help shape and build a differentiated and best in class consulting services. The successful candidate will:
Lead the development of the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure team in the Middle East by engaging with prospective clients and developing enduring senior level client relationships
Serve as a member of the Travel, Hospitality & Leisure practice leadership in EMEA
Build the A&M brand and profile by successfully winning and delivering client assignments and managing project teams to exceed client expectations
Contribute to thought leadership and the development of the practice by raising the profile and our reputation with clients and internally across other teams
Be an influential leader on travel, hospitality and leisure topics including growth and strategy, operational and commercial performance improvement, M&A, turnaround and restructuring
Provide a significant contribution to practice building activities such as recruiting and training both leaders and junior team members
Identify and manage key relationships with owners, operators, national stakeholders, and investors / lenders
Technical Competencies & Experience
We are looking for a sector leader who are interested in taking on the new challenge in leading and shaping the future of the dynamic team at A&M. You will have an opportunity to work alongside inspiring leaders and act as a trusted advisor to Boards, CEOs, and C-level executives to drive the strategic transformation agenda and programs to fundamentally turnaround businesses and put them on a sustainable growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with the business leaders (internally and externally) who are willing to be challenged and ambitious. As a Managing Director, you will cultivate and foster new businesses and be part of shaping the future of the practice.
You will have a demonstrable deep knowledge of business transformation, a broad and varied blend of operational and consulting skills, an entrepreneurial approach and well-developed networks. We are looking for candidates with several of the following attributes:
Evidence of delivering major transformation, performance improvement, operational restructuring or M&A-driven projects
Evidence of converting business contacts and leads into sustainable, profitable revenue streams
Developing and executing a specific strategy focused on target clients and distinctive go-to-market propositions
Experience and consequently a robust network across the Middle East and Europe of investors of all types – owners, operators, national stakeholders and investors / lenders
Broad operational experience in the Travel, Hospitality and Leisure industry combined with advisory experience from a leading professional services firm
A track record in supporting and driving the relationship and sales management process
Proven record of delivering state of the art solutions to an evolving sector
Analytical rigour, preferably with financial and / or diligence experience
Clear determination to deliver the latest thinking in a highly competitive advisory marketplace
Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, and unpredictable environment
Experience of living and working in the Middle East
Fluency in English is essential and, fluency in Arabic is highly desirable
Soft Skills
Strong facilitation skills, forging consensus around credible, executable solutions
Excellent written and oral communications skills, confident presenter
Objective, fact-based approach to problem solving
Willing to provide and sustain fact-based challenge to clients and colleagues of all levels
Hands-on and non-hierarchical operator who is equally effective in managing up and down and relates well at all levels and cultures
Driven by values and integrity, talks straight, builds confidence, and leads by example
The ability to manage a multiple stakeholder environment
Diversity & Inclusion
A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity and we foster inclusiveness. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.
Voluntary Inclusion
It is Alvarez & Marsal’s policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters
Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.