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Associate Director - Research - Sutherland
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Associate Director - Research

Published 10/05/2026 | Expires 12/06/2026

Job description

Company Description

Looking for a senior Private Equity professional with hands-on experience in portfolio value creation and operational improvement. The candidate should have worked with a PE firm / portfolio operations team and directly with portfolio-company management teams.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assess portfolio-company performance and identify value-creation opportunities.
  • Develop and execute initiatives across revenue growth, pricing/GTM, sales effectiveness, cost, working capital and operations.
  • Track performance against the investment case and value-creation plan, identifying reasons for underperformance.
  • Work directly with portfolio-company CEOs/CFOs and functional leaders on improvement programs.
  • Establish KPIs, milestones and governance; track impact on revenue, EBITDA, FCF and ROIC.
  • Support 100-day planning, portfolio monitoring and exit readiness.

Qualifications

Candidate Profile:

  • 10-15+ years of relevant experience.
  • Prior PE / Portfolio Operations / Value Creation experience strongly preferred.
  • Hands-on experience executing improvement programs within PE portfolio companies.
  • Strong understanding of the PE lifecycle from diligence and underwriting through value creation and exit.
  • Strong financial, analytical and program-management skills.
  • Comfortable working with PE senior leadership and portfolio-company management teams.

Priority: Candidates with actual portfolio-company value creation and execution experience, rather than primarily transaction, research or strategy backgrounds.

Job criteria

Type of job Full-time
Cities Mumbai