Howard-Sloan Search
Business Development leader focused on partnering with innovative organizations to add talent and increase productivity
Firm Overview
Headquartered in New York City, we are a leading private equity advisory firm with a 20+-year track record of rapid value creation for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. We perform robust fact-based customer & market and operational due diligence, craft pragmatic and actionable growth strategies, identify operations improvement opportunities, execute changes that maximize financial benefits. Within tight timeframes and through our differentiating mix of superior analytics, strategic, operations, and financial expertise, and establish compelling growth story ahead of exit, we deliver tailored solutions that allow our clients to rapidly confirm, reach, and often exceed their top‑line growth and margin improvement objectives and help ensure successful exit.
Our team members work closely with leading private equity firms and senior executives while gaining strong hands‑on consulting experience in an entrepreneurial setting. The work we do requires team members who are: passionate about raising the bar on what is possible; focused on doing whatever it takes to help clients succeed; critical thinkers and strong communicators who thrive in challenging, fast‑paced, and exciting situations; and seeking to make a valuable imprint both inside and at the client.
Role Description Vice Presidents lead consulting teams, typically consisting of associates, business analysts, and senior operating executives, as well as client resources, and ensure the success of the engagement.
Responsibilities
Developing issue sets as the first step in focusing the hypothesized scope of the engagement and then transitioning issue sets into comprehensive and explicit team work plans
Efficiently managing company/client resources and the overall engagement within compressed timeframes while ensuring changing needs of a study are being addressed
Guiding team in collection, synthesis, and analysis of data, and in conducting interviews with clients and third parties
Developing hypothetical solutions, testing alternative scenarios, and developing fact‑based actionable recommendations
Structuring and creating factual, compelling message‑driven written documents to present to clients
Conducting client presentations and generating constructive dialogue around conclusions/recommendations
Proactively building high‑quality relationships with private equity and portfolio company clients
Actively participating in proposal development efforts
Taking a leadership role in our growth through: developing knowledge capital; training/ mentoring junior team members; marketing & business development; and actively participating in recruiting.
We do not follow a prescribed timeline for career advancement recognizing the unique contributions and development pace of each individual. Rather, we use a 360‑degree evaluation process, along with ongoing feedback, to gauge readiness to accept broader roles. When vice presidents are ready and willing to accept higher levels of responsibility, they are given such responsibilities.
Desired Qualifications / Experience / Skills
Our people are our single most important asset. Ours is a culture of excellence, and we gain great satisfaction from working together and with our client counterparts. Our firm comprises exceptional people from varied backgrounds and with unexpected interests and remarkable lives. People who succeed at are diverse yet share as core traits integrity, ownership/accountability, self‑confidence, resourcefulness, energy, passion for learning and career advancement, and a " things done" attitude.
MBA and BS/BA in engineering, economics, or a similar quantitative field from a top‑tier institution
2-5 years post‑MBA experience in a top‑tier strategy consulting firm in due diligence and growth strategy assignments with the focus on one or more of the following industries: consumer & retail, industrials, services, infrastructure, healthcare, and technology
3+ years pre‑MBA experience in strategy/operations consulting or in a corporate role or in investment banking or in PE
Deep understanding of business concepts: market, financial, operational, and organizational
Significant primary research experience, including developing questionnaires and online surveys, and conducting unsolicited interviews to gain firsthand insights into market and competitive dynamics
Analytically oriented with experience building bottom‑up market sizing models for niche markets
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate and work effectively with all levels of our group and with private equity firm and portfolio company staff; comfortable with client site presence
Strategic thinker and attention to detail; experience solving problems in a structured manner using an "80/20" approach
Results‑oriented and client‑focused, with ability to perform in compressed timeframes and data‑poor situations
Compensation range for the Strategy Vice President role: $220,000 - $300,000 base salary + performance‑based bonus + 401(k) retirement plan contributions + discretionary profit‑sharing contributions + benefits.
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Headquartered in New York City, we are a leading private equity advisory firm with a 20+-year track record of rapid value creation for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. We perform robust fact-based customer & market and operational due diligence, craft pragmatic and actionable growth strategies, identify operations improvement opportunities, execute changes that maximize financial benefits. Within tight timeframes and through our differentiating mix of superior analytics, strategic, operations, and financial expertise, and establish compelling growth story ahead of exit, we deliver tailored solutions that allow our clients to rapidly confirm, reach, and often exceed their top‑line growth and margin improvement objectives and help ensure successful exit.
Our team members work closely with leading private equity firms and senior executives while gaining strong hands‑on consulting experience in an entrepreneurial setting. The work we do requires team members who are: passionate about raising the bar on what is possible; focused on doing whatever it takes to help clients succeed; critical thinkers and strong communicators who thrive in challenging, fast‑paced, and exciting situations; and seeking to make a valuable imprint both inside and at the client.
Role Description Vice Presidents lead consulting teams, typically consisting of associates, business analysts, and senior operating executives, as well as client resources, and ensure the success of the engagement.
Responsibilities
Developing issue sets as the first step in focusing the hypothesized scope of the engagement and then transitioning issue sets into comprehensive and explicit team work plans
Efficiently managing company/client resources and the overall engagement within compressed timeframes while ensuring changing needs of a study are being addressed
Guiding team in collection, synthesis, and analysis of data, and in conducting interviews with clients and third parties
Developing hypothetical solutions, testing alternative scenarios, and developing fact‑based actionable recommendations
Structuring and creating factual, compelling message‑driven written documents to present to clients
Conducting client presentations and generating constructive dialogue around conclusions/recommendations
Proactively building high‑quality relationships with private equity and portfolio company clients
Actively participating in proposal development efforts
Taking a leadership role in our growth through: developing knowledge capital; training/ mentoring junior team members; marketing & business development; and actively participating in recruiting.
We do not follow a prescribed timeline for career advancement recognizing the unique contributions and development pace of each individual. Rather, we use a 360‑degree evaluation process, along with ongoing feedback, to gauge readiness to accept broader roles. When vice presidents are ready and willing to accept higher levels of responsibility, they are given such responsibilities.
Desired Qualifications / Experience / Skills
Our people are our single most important asset. Ours is a culture of excellence, and we gain great satisfaction from working together and with our client counterparts. Our firm comprises exceptional people from varied backgrounds and with unexpected interests and remarkable lives. People who succeed at are diverse yet share as core traits integrity, ownership/accountability, self‑confidence, resourcefulness, energy, passion for learning and career advancement, and a " things done" attitude.
MBA and BS/BA in engineering, economics, or a similar quantitative field from a top‑tier institution
2-5 years post‑MBA experience in a top‑tier strategy consulting firm in due diligence and growth strategy assignments with the focus on one or more of the following industries: consumer & retail, industrials, services, infrastructure, healthcare, and technology
3+ years pre‑MBA experience in strategy/operations consulting or in a corporate role or in investment banking or in PE
Deep understanding of business concepts: market, financial, operational, and organizational
Significant primary research experience, including developing questionnaires and online surveys, and conducting unsolicited interviews to gain firsthand insights into market and competitive dynamics
Analytically oriented with experience building bottom‑up market sizing models for niche markets
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate and work effectively with all levels of our group and with private equity firm and portfolio company staff; comfortable with client site presence
Strategic thinker and attention to detail; experience solving problems in a structured manner using an "80/20" approach
Results‑oriented and client‑focused, with ability to perform in compressed timeframes and data‑poor situations
Compensation range for the Strategy Vice President role: $220,000 - $300,000 base salary + performance‑based bonus + 401(k) retirement plan contributions + discretionary profit‑sharing contributions + benefits.
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