Associate Director - Research

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. 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.