Operating Model Design

About the role

You will own the end to end design of operating models for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, translating strategic intent into a clear organizational architecture. You will be the primary consultant responsible for diagnosing current operating models and designing future state structures that are both resilient and adaptable. In this capacity, you will define the optimal spans of control, decision rights, and governance mechanisms that allow an organization to execute at speed. You will architect shared services and centralized functions to ensure that margin gains are not theoretical but operationally real and sustainable. You will act as the critical integrator, ensuring that the organization structure aligns with pricing discipline and supply chain realities. You will own the development of Cfgi's proprietary frameworks and play a key role in shaping the firm's methodology around operating model transformation. You will serve as a trusted advisor to C suites and boards, guiding them through complex restructuring with the confidence that comes from deep operational expertise.

Key facts

What you'll do

Conduct deep operating model diagnostics, mapping current state org structures, spans of control, and decision rights using RAPID and RACI frameworks to identify misalignments.

Perform centralized shared services assessments and strategic relocations, analyzing the total cost and risk trade offs of centralizing functions versus keeping them distributed across business units.

Evaluate outsourcing and offshoring opportunities, building rigorous cost-to-serve models that quantify the financial and operational implications of vendor decisions.

Design and implement SG&A optimization programs, creating target operating models that streamline overhead while preserving critical capabilities and service quality.

Develop detailed cost-to-serve models that link organizational design directly to profitability by customer segment, channel performance, and product line contribution.

Lead the operating model workstreams for carve out and integration projects, ensuring that add on businesses and platform acquisitions are structured for rapid value realization.

Build and maintain Cfgi's operating model delivery collateral, including benchmarks, playbooks, and detailed case studies that codify best practices.

Partner closely with portfolio company CEOs and CHROs to drive change management initiatives, ensuring that new org designs are adopted smoothly and performance improves.

Support 100 day value creation planning for new platform investments, embedding an operating model lens into the initial due diligence and integration blueprint.

Represent the firm's operating model expertise in sponsor facing business development conversations, articulating the impact of design choices on portfolio value.

Champion the development of reusable methodology assets, creating tools and frameworks that allow the team to scale delivery without sacrificing quality.

Perform sensitivity analyses on span of control metrics, identifying the optimal management layers required to balance control with execution speed.

Translate complex trade offs between control and autonomy into clear recommendations for boards and executive teams, enabling confident decision making.

Act as the primary liaison between pricing and supply chain practices, ensuring that operating model choices reinforce margin improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a minimum of 10 to 15 years of progressive experience in strategy consulting, with a preferred pedigree from MBB or Strategy& and a demonstrated specialization in operating model and organizational design.

You must have a proven track record of leading large scale organizational restructuring initiatives that deliver measurable SG&A reductions or margin improvements, typically in the double digit percentage range.

You are required to have substantial experience working with PE backed companies, including leading carve outs, platform buildouts, or post merger integration efforts where operating model is a central success factor.

You must demonstrate strong quantitative modeling capabilities, including the construction of detailed cost-to-serve models and span of control benchmarking analyses that inform strategic choices.

You must have executive presence and communication skills that allow you to lead highly sensitive organizational design conversations with C suite executives and board members under conditions of ambiguity or conflict.

You must be able to interpret complex business problems and translate them into actionable organizational design solutions that are both practical and ambitious.

You must be comfortable managing multiple concurrent workstreams for diverse portfolio clients while maintaining a high standard of quality and timeliness.

You must be willing to travel domestically within the United States on a regular basis to support client engagements that may be located in various time zones.

Nice to have

Prior experience building and deploying operating model frameworks and proprietary benchmarks that are used to guide client conversations.

A track record of successful collaboration with CHROs and HR leaders to align organization design with talent and change management strategies.

Experience leveraging data and analytics to validate cost assumptions and validate the financial impact of proposed structural changes.

A background in facilitating workshop environments where C suite leaders can challenge and refine proposed org structures in real time.

Practical notes

This role requires domestic travel within the United States.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position at this time.

The engagement is full time, and the candidate is expected to be immediately available to join client projects.

Deadlines for application review are aligned with ongoing project start dates, so early submission is encouraged to ensure consideration.