Description : Alma Consulting Group, a French company with a €185 million turnover business, is rapidly growing both organically and through acquisitions. Its offices are located in France, the UK, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Portugal and Israel. The company has experienced double-digit growth each year in the last two decades and currently has over 9000 customers, including many of the leading players in the European market. Alma Consulting Group is now widely recognised as the European leader in operational consulting for cost optimisation, and has a unique business model which builds a valuable intellectual and technical resource, and shares the resultant benefit with its clients.
The Alma Consulting Group business model begins with identifying areas in which even a large multi-national company will not be able to master the nuance of complex laws, regulation and practice. Alma Consulting Group invests in research that determines whether there are approaches that can successfully reduce cost or improve the chance of success. With this insight, knowledge and expertise, Alma Consulting Group offers to assist a client to reduce cost and is rewarded by a percentage of the realized savings. The company does not bill clients on a time and materials basis, but works strictly on payments by results. Thus each of its country practices has a core proprietary intellectual capital as well as a strong commercial case. It is vital that each country develops its own ability to use the group´s approach to build on opportunities specific to that country´s tax structure, and which will produce cost savings or rebates for clients.
Further information about Alma Consulting Group´s business and group activities is available on: www.almacg.com
Immediate task
In the UK, Alma Consulting Group has in 2007 built a subsidiary with seven employees in London. The London office is focusing on advising technology-based companies on tax relief on R&D claims. Companies developing scientific and technological innovation are key beneficiaries, not only from making best use of tax credits, but also from finding valuable support in Alma Consulting Group´s expertise in winning European Commission grants for cooperative research projects across Europe.
As part of its external growth strategy in the UK, Alma Consulting Group has also in March 2008 succeeded in acquiring Professional Cost Management Group (PCMG), a privately owned cost auditing company located in Blackpool, and specialising in obtaining rebates for customers in relation to telecommunications, utilities and energy billing. Established in 1993, PCMG´s key customers are typically major companies which have large expenditures in either Telecommunications or Energy, including a significant proportion of FTSE-100 businesses and Public Sector organisations. Again, all customers are retained on a payment by results basis.
Reporting directly to the International Director based in France, the UK Country Manager will lead a diverse team and will play a key role in developing the business in the UK. He will have the responsibility of managing both the London and the Blackpool offices and will share his time between both offices. A stronger presence in Blackpool is required (at least 3 days a week) due to the planned departure of the founders of PCMG after the earn-out period in early 2009.
The tasks and responsibilities of the Country Manager include:
 Executing the company strategy to develop the UK market through both organic growth and the acquisition of rapidly growing complementary businesses,
 Managing the whole team in the UK to become commercially effective service providers to major British companies,
 Developing branch office turnover and profitability,
 Coordinating the office management with both the Paris-based headquarters and International Division whilst developing synergies within the group,
 Providing regular market and financial performance updates on the business.
In summary
Skills and qualifications for the ideal candidate will include:
 Relevant Work Experience:
 Minimum 10 years of experience in providing corporate services,
 Sales and management experience, preferably in the “service” industry,
 Knowledge of and a good networking base in the British market,
 Familiarity with operating a subsidiary company.
 Personal Qualities: Entrepreneurial, mature, ambitious, organised, charismatic, intelligent, hard working, ability to bring a team together.
 A working knowledge of French will be valuable but not compulsory.
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