West Monroe · 6 hours ago
Senior Manager and Director, Operational Value Creation - Cost & Productivity
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$195K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expWest Monroe is expanding its Operational Value Creation practice with a focus on helping clients identify, prioritize, activate and realize sustainable cost reduction and productivity enhancements. This role requires a leader who has delivered real P&L savings, and who can leverage data, analytics, and emerging AI-enabled tools to accelerate insight, improve decision-making, and sustain results.
Business DevelopmentConsultingInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyService Industry
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end cost reduction programs across indirect and direct spend categories
Identify, size, and prioritize cost reduction opportunities using spend analytics, benchmarks, and AI-enabled insights
Design and execute sourcing, demand management, supplier rationalization, and should-cost initiatives
Apply AI- and automation-enabled approaches to: Accelerate spend visibility and opportunity identification Support category strategy development Improve governance and savings tracking
Own execution through savings realization, governance, and sustainability
Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives (CFO, COO, CPO, Operations leaders)
Lead and develop multi-disciplinary teams, including procurement, operations, data, and change resources
Contribute to building repeatable, AI-enabled category playbooks and toolkits
Support business development by articulating a clear, execution-led value proposition
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in management consulting or advisory roles
Experience working with middle-market clients ($500M–$2B revenue)
Deep expertise in third-party spend cost reduction, including indirect and direct categories
Proven track record of executing cost programs, not just diagnosing opportunities
Experience applying analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools to procurement or cost programs
Strong client relationship skills and executive presence
Demonstrated success leading teams and managing complex stakeholder environments
Preferred
Experience with PE-backed portfolio companies
Exposure to agentic or workflow-based automation in procurement, sourcing, or spend management
Comfort operating in ambiguous, execution-oriented environments
Benefits
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.
Employees can purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program.
Employees are eligible to receive annual bonuses.
Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off.
Employees will receive ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
Company
West Monroe
West Monroe offers digital transformation, analytics, cloud, cyber security, business advisory, and management consulting services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
MSD Partners
2021-10-15Series Unknown
2020-01-07Acquired
Leadership Team
Gil Mermelstein
Chief Executive Officer
Kevin McCarty
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of West Monroe
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