Experienced Consultant, High-Tech & Software

Company: West Monroe
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

Ready to thrive in the next step on your career journey? West Monroe is seeking an Experienced Consultant with prior experience in and a strong passion for the Software & High-Tech industry to join our San Francisco office. Our office serves an array of interesting and exciting Software & High-Tech, Private Equity, and Corporate Strategic clients across the nation. As an Experienced Consultant, you will serve Software & High-Tech clients and Private Equity investors with a focus on software, TMT, and tech-enabled services businesses. Engagements range across growth strategy, technology innovation, operational improvement, diligence, and merger integrations / carve-outs. In addition to client delivery, you will have the opportunity to assist with business development (hunting new clients and building relationship with existing), along with contributing to internal practice development leadership. Experienced Consultant's within West Monroe have three main responsibilities: Client Delivery

• Support teams serving Software & High-Tech and Private Equity clients while demonstrating advisory capabilities with high level client counterparts such as C-level executives, Business Unit GMs, and Private Equity Deal and Operating Partners
• Contribute to fast-paced due diligence engagements for Private Equity and Corporate Strategic clients investing in Software & High-Tech, with an ability to evaluate the market opportunity, product technology, operating model, and their effects on margins, revenue, and growth risks.
• Play a key role in complex transactions within the Software & High-Tech sector (e.g., post-merger integration, carve-out/divestitures, operating model transformation) focused on initiatives such as product strategy, target operating model development, post-sales operations and retention improvement, and transaction program advisory.
• Execute strategy and operations improvement engagements for Software & High-Tech companies. Practice Development
  • Build data-driven methodologies and assets for evaluating Software & High-Tech businesses and manage related internal initiatives
  • Enhance analysis and presentation frameworks used in Software & High-Tech advisory
  • Collaborate with a team of Software & High-Tech industry, technology and operational consulting teams to develop and enhance delivery capabilities across West Monroe's practice areas
  • Actively participate in the performance management process
  • Actively participate in recruiting and retaining top quality consultants
  • Assist with company campus and experienced recruiting - Business Development
    • Support opportunities to provide prospects and clients with advisory services for Software & High-Tech businesses and Private Equity Investors; collaborate with practice partners to support these opportunities
    • Understand client investment needs/constraints and help tailor proposals appropriately to meet their needs
    • Develop go-to-market messaging and sales materials to support business development for prospects and clients
    • Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for potential engagements
    • Actively participate in Software / Technology and M&A industry events
    • Attend networking events and actively build and leverage a professional network and affiliate network in the local community - Qualifications:
      • Minimum of 2+ years of work experience including at least one of the following:
        • Team-based, client-facing management, technology, or strategy consulting to Software and/or high-tech clients
        • Operational role within the Software & High-Tech sector
        • M&A experience at strategic acquirer
        • Experienced in specific Software & High-Tech sub-sectors (e.g. FinTech, Healthcare IT, Marketing Tech, etc.) preferred, but not mandatory
        • Knowledge of go-to-market practices in a technology business, e.g., sales effectiveness, pricing, sales operations, etc.
        • Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
        • Experience managing client relationships
        • Strong analytical, problem solving, and quality assurance experience
        • Strong communication skills to be able to work with C-level clients
        • Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship Ready to get started? Join our team and make an impact. At West Monroe, our people are our business. We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting-and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious. Our people-first culture is core to our identity. It's something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, unique perspectives, and the drive to make an impact for our clients. We also know that the best outcomes for both our people and our clients result from including diverse perspectives at the table. That's why inclusion & diversity is one of our core values. Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that's where you come in. West Monroe Partners is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer -
          We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about inclusion and diversity at West Monroe, visit If you are based in California, we encourage you to read West Monroe's Notice at Collection for California residents, provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and linked here. -#LI-HYBRID

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