Senior Manager, Applied AI Value Creation, M&A Practice
West Monroe · Chicago, United States +7 · 1mo ago
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West Monroe is seeking a Senior Manager to join our Applied AI Value Creation team. This role is designed for an experienced consulting leader who combines deep industry or functional expertise with AI-enabled transformation to help Private Equity Portfolio Companies accelerate value creation across strategy, operations, technology, and data.
As a Senior Manager, you will lead complex client engagements that identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact AI solutions across the enterprise. You will partner closely with executive business and technology leaders to translate strategic objectives into practical AI-enabled operating models, transformation roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes. This role requires equal strength in executive advisory, engagement leadership, and practice development.
In addition to leading client delivery, you will help grow West Monroe's Applied AI Value Creation practice by developing client relationships, leading business development efforts, mentoring consultants, and creating reusable methodologies that accelerate future engagements.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex AI-enabled transformation engagements from strategy through implementation, serving as the primary engagement leader and trusted advisor to executive client stakeholders.
- Build trusted executive relationships that drive successful client outcomes while identifying opportunities to expand existing engagements and develop new business.
- Partner with client executives, business leaders, product teams, and technology organizations to identify strategic opportunities where AI can create measurable business value.
- Lead discovery workshops to define business problems, desired outcomes, operational constraints, adoption risks, and implementation priorities.
- Translate ambiguous business challenges into future-state operating models, AI strategies, value creation roadmaps, prioritized use cases, and executable implementation plans.
- Advise clients on the appropriate application of Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, workflow automation, and modern data platforms.
- Design AI-enabled operating models that incorporate governance, human-in-the-loop processes, security, change management, adoption planning, and value realization metrics.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams of consultants, AI specialists, software engineers, data scientists, and client stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Partner with engineering teams to assess solution feasibility, define implementation sequencing, and accelerate delivery from prototype through production deployment.
- Manage engagement scope, staffing, financial performance, quality, delivery risk, and executive communications across multiple concurrent engagements.
- Develop executive-ready recommendations that improve revenue growth, operational efficiency, customer experience, productivity, and enterprise value.
- Lead business development activities, including opportunity identification, proposal development, executive presentations, solution design, and client workshops.
- Develop and enhance repeatable offerings, methodologies, playbooks, and intellectual property that strengthen West Monroe's Applied AI Value Creation capabilities.
- Serve as a thought leader on AI-enabled business transformation by contributing to market-facing content, internal innovation initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration across the firm.
- Recruit, mentor, coach, and develop consultants and managers while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team environment.
- Capture reusable methodologies, frameworks, accelerators, and best practices that improve delivery quality and accelerate future client engagements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- 8+ years of consulting, digital transformation, operations transformation, product strategy, technology delivery, or AI-enabled business transformation experience.
- Demonstrated success leading complex consulting engagements from strategy through implementation with executive-level client accountability.
- Experience developing business cases, value creation roadmaps, operating models, KPI frameworks, and enterprise transformation strategies.
- Experience identifying and quantifying value creation opportunities impacting revenue growth, EBITDA improvement, operating efficiency, cost optimization, or working capital.
- Strong understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, workflow orchestration, and enterprise AI adoption.
- Experience identifying, evaluating, and implementing AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Ability to understand and challenge enterprise architectures spanning applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, security, workflow technologies, and integrations.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across consulting, engineering, analytics, product, and client organizations.
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.
- Demonstrated business development experience, including opportunity identification, proposal development, executive presentations, and account growth.
- Experience mentoring and developing consulting teams while fostering collaboration and high performance.
- Deep expertise within at least one industry or functional domain, with the ability to connect business strategy to AI-enabled transformation opportunities.
- Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, and hypothesis-driven thinking skills.
- Experience partnering with Private Equity firms or portfolio companies on value creation initiatives.
- Experience delivering enterprise transformation programs involving AI, intelligent automation, ERP, CRM, modern data platforms, cloud technologies, advanced analytics, or similar digital capabilities.
- Familiarity with enterprise AI and analytics platforms such as Azure AI, OpenAI, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or comparable technologies.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiatives across business and technology organizations.
- Willingness to travel based on client needs.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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