Director (Semiconductor Practice)

As a Director, you will be responsible for the delivery of advisory projects, leading project teams of 2-4 Associates to enable them to find the right approach, motivate them to deliver on time and to achieve long-term impact. You will drive the majority of the project related interactions – usually on site – ensuring constructive collaboration across various levels of partner or portfolio companies.

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You will make an important contribution to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions, and working closely with partner companies to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. Project work typically includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations for presentation to senior management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with partner team members.

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You will have the opportunity to build on your proven leadership skills and leverage your interest in inspiring others, building strong relationships, and creating true followership. Your superior analytical, quantitative, and conceptual thinking skills and strong interpersonal and communication skills will ensure successful projects and team performance.

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Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as the day-to-day leader on client engagements, managing a team of consultants to drive strategic and operational transformations.
• Lead semiconductor-focused transformation projects by driving workstreams across strategy, operations, finance, product development, etc.
• Understand the nuances of semiconductor processes, identify inefficiencies, synthesize insights, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Owning the project planning and process management and communicating progress to relevant stakeholders.
• Driving development of the content, either directly or by providing guidance to the project team (for example, by sharing ideas, frameworks or providing input on research and analysis). Support detailed technical and operational analyses, including but not limited to market assessments, cost and yield improvements, CAPEX planning, and process optimization.
• Managing project scope and maintaining an acceptable pace of work.
• Actively managing various stakeholder relationships.
• Leading all critical presentations and meetings.
• Providing apprenticeship and coaching to junior members of the team to help develop their problem solving and execution skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow.
• Contributing to the development of intellectual property within the Practice Area(s), including improving methodologies, tools, techniques and developing new ideas and approaches.

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Ayna.AI adopts the engaged investor operator model combining domain expertise with transformation capabilities, to help create “Segment-of-One” leaders in the industrial and industrial technology sector. Ayna has privileged relationships with Fernweh, an investment firm, and Fernweh’s portfolio companies. This provides a unique opportunity to pursue various career paths for high performers – a traditional advisory path with Ayna, supporting the investment activities of Fernweh, or leadership roles at Ayna partners and Fernweh portfolio companies.

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