Post-Close Organization Review to Accelerate Growth
CLIENT: Private Equity Backed Leading Service Provider in the Industrial Services Industry
Challenge:
- Investor sought a scalable growth strategy to empower the leadership team to drive expansion, streamline operations, address organizational gaps, and preserve core cultural values while increasing revenue.
- Growth was hindered by fragmented operations, outdated systems, inconsistent customer experience, and a limited M&A approach.
- Critical leadership gaps, talent shortages, and a lean operating model strained resources and limited capabilities.
- Rapid national expansion required scalable infrastructure, centralized shared services, and a focus on unifying company values while respecting site identities.
Actions:
- Conducted a post-close organization review (VCP Accelerator©) with a foundational scorecard, using leadership reviews, organizational surveys, and stakeholder interviews to inform the assessment.
- Provided scorecard assessment, key findings, and prioritized recommendations, including a four-quarter action plan focused on operations, finance, customer experience, and talent.
- Recommended hiring for key roles (CFO, COO, VP IT, VP HR) to fill leadership gaps and drive efficiency.
- Proposed initiatives to strengthen finance functionality, evolve M&A approach, enhance customer satisfaction, and implement robust talent management practices.
Impact:
- Established organization roadmap to achieve 2-2.5x revenue goals with >20% EBITDA margins.
- Surfaced hidden business and leadership scaling opportunities with clear actions to address.
- Launched organization health assessment to ensure laser focus on site-specific and functional group challenges.
- Identified attrition risk of critical leaders with concrete actions to build bench strength and mitigate continuity concerns.
- Designed fit-for-purpose recommendations to build a higher-performing leadership team and critical talent investments.