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About the Role

Elm is seeking a Consultant to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to supporting the successful integration of acquired companies and ensuring the realization of investment value. Candidates should possess 2-5 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities

The Consultant plays a critical role in supporting Elm’s strategic and investment objectives by developing and executing comprehensive integration plans for acquired companies. This involves identifying and tracking value creation and synergy opportunities, coordinating diverse cross-functional integration activities, and diligently monitoring associated risks and performance to ensure successful integration and investment value realization.

Integration Planning and Execution

• Develop and coordinate integration plans for acquired companies across relevant functional and operational areas.
• Define integration activities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor execution and identify issues affecting successful integration.
• Support pre-close activities by assessing potential integration requirements and priorities.
• Collaborate with investment and target company teams to understand key operational considerations and potential value creation opportunities.
• Coordinate integration activities with relevant functions including Strategy & Planning, Human Capital, Finance, and Technology.
• Facilitate alignment between Elm and portfolio company stakeholders throughout the integration process.

Value Creation and Risk Management

• Identify and assess value creation and synergy opportunities across portfolio companies.
• Develop mechanisms to track value capture initiatives and analyze progress against value creation targets.
• Develop and maintain integration progress tracking and performance reporting, monitoring milestones, synergies, and key indicators.
• Identify and assess operational, organizational, and execution risks associated with integration activities.
• Develop and track mitigation actions in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Support portfolio companies in addressing operational and strategic challenges, analyzing performance gaps, and providing recommendations.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Maintain effective communication with investment teams, portfolio companies, and internal stakeholders.
• Prepare analysis, presentations, and recommendations to support integration and value creation discussions.
• Ensure timely follow-up on key decisions, actions, and stakeholder commitments.

Compliance and Standards

• Adhere to all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions.
• Comply with all relevant safety, quality, and environmental management policies, procedures, and controls.
• Comply with all relevant information security practices and standards to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.