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Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.
Join Deloitte's Performance & Cost Improvement team to help organizations unlock capital, improve margins, and drive enterprise-wide transformation. In this role, you will work with senior client stakeholders to identify value creation opportunities, lead high-impact initiatives, and deliver practical solutions that produce measurable results. If you bring consulting experience, financial acumen, and a track record of leading complex transformation work, this role offers a strong platform to expand your impact.

Recruiting for this role ends on 08/28/2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Deloitte Manager on the Performance & Cost Improvement team you will identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for companies. Deloitte's managers help companies spur growth, reduce costs, and thrive in today's digital world. Our managers serve as mentors to staff, directors in delivery transformation, industry experts, and engagement leaders. As a manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading small engagements or key workstreams within larger, complex engagements focused on cost reduction, margin improvement, and enterprise transformation
• Assessing client business issues, analyzing operational and financial data, and identifying value creation opportunities
• Evaluating analyses, developing actionable recommendations, and supporting implementation of business and technology solutions
• Managing day-to-day client relationships, coordinating cross-functional teams, and overseeing the quality of deliverables
• Mentoring team members and contributing to business development activities that support practice growth

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

PI&R defines and leads enterprise Board and C-Suite agendas for non-distressed, underperforming, and distressed clients to improve margins, operational and financial performance, navigate financial difficulties, and improve cashflow to fund critical transformations.
Within PI&R, the Performance & Cost Improvement team helps clients identify, evaluate, and implement enterprise-wide cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities. They address financial pressure, improve operating performance, and stabilize business results. The team supports initiatives such as cost reduction, margin improvement, working capital and liquidity improvement, post-merger integration and synergy capture, operating model transformation, business model transformation, and analytics-enabled performance improvement. P&CI focuses on structural, enterprise-wide changes designed to support both immediate performance goals and long-term profitable growth.
Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of management consulting experience in operations improvement, transformation, operating model design, organizational design, mergers and acquisitions integration, or business process reengineering focused on global cost reduction or global growth strategies
• 6+ years of financial analysis experience using data from multiple sources to identify value creation opportunities
• 6+ years of mergers and acquisitions experience, including integration or separation planning and implementation, Day One readiness, and synergy targeting and realization
• 6+ years of experience developing models using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic, Tableau, or similar tools
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Advanced degree
• Experience with Microsoft Visio
• Experience developing executive-level presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Experience using analytics or data visualization tools
• Experience leading workstreams or teams in transformation, cost reduction, or post-merger integration initiatives

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $155,600 to $306,800.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.
Join Deloitte's Performance & Cost Improvement team to help organizations unlock capital, improve margins, and drive enterprise-wide transformation. In this role, you will work with senior client stakeholders to identify value creation opportunities, lead high-impact initiatives, and deliver practical solutions that produce measurable results. If you bring consulting experience, financial acumen, and a track record of leading complex transformation work, this role offers a strong platform to expand your impact.

Recruiting for this role ends on 08/28/2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Deloitte Manager on the Performance & Cost Improvement team you will identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for companies. Deloitte's managers help companies spur growth, reduce costs, and thrive in today's digital world. Our managers serve as mentors to staff, directors in delivery transformation, industry experts, and engagement leaders. As a manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading small engagements or key workstreams within larger, complex engagements focused on cost reduction, margin improvement, and enterprise transformation
• Assessing client business issues, analyzing operational and financial data, and identifying value creation opportunities
• Evaluating analyses, developing actionable recommendations, and supporting implementation of business and technology solutions
• Managing day-to-day client relationships, coordinating cross-functional teams, and overseeing the quality of deliverables
• Mentoring team members and contributing to business development activities that support practice growth

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

PI&R defines and leads enterprise Board and C-Suite agendas for non-distressed, underperforming, and distressed clients to improve margins, operational and financial performance, navigate financial difficulties, and improve cashflow to fund critical transformations.
Within PI&R, the Performance & Cost Improvement team helps clients identify, evaluate, and implement enterprise-wide cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities. They address financial pressure, improve operating performance, and stabilize business results. The team supports initiatives such as cost reduction, margin improvement, working capital and liquidity improvement, post-merger integration and synergy capture, operating model transformation, business model transformation, and analytics-enabled performance improvement. P&CI focuses on structural, enterprise-wide changes designed to support both immediate performance goals and long-term profitable growth.
Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of management consulting experience in operations improvement, transformation, operating model design, organizational design, mergers and acquisitions integration, or business process reengineering focused on global cost reduction or global growth strategies
• 6+ years of financial analysis experience using data from multiple sources to identify value creation opportunities
• 6+ years of mergers and acquisitions experience, including integration or separation planning and implementation, Day One readiness, and synergy targeting and realization
• 6+ years of experience developing models using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic, Tableau, or similar tools
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Advanced degree
• Experience with Microsoft Visio
• Experience developing executive-level presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Experience using analytics or data visualization tools
• Experience leading workstreams or teams in transformation, cost reduction, or post-merger integration initiatives

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $155,600 to $306,800.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.