Senior Manager, Applied AI Value Creation, M&A Practice

The posting, as West Monroe wrote it

Are you ready to make an impact?

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

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e know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.

At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next.

You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
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