I have an offer for a PE Ops role and whilst comp is good it seems like they're hiring a pool of internal consultants to leverage for implementation projects within specific PortCos and therefore I won't be driving initiatives centrally - is this standard practice for Ops roles?

At this point I think I'll turn it down given I'm looking for something that operates more centrally (driving not implementing myself)

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OP, what you described as the role is what most PE Ops roles do - drive improvements at the portcos.
What do you mean by, “driving initiatives centrally”? Ops teams are a cost center and have to earn their keep by driving top and bottom line improvements at the portcos.

BTW, tons of people on FB would love that role.

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PE Ops comes in all sorts of different flavors but at smaller firms they typically reserve the ops / value creation hires as resources focused on top line growth, hiring, marketing, product expansion, M&A integration (non-technical) and some cost cutting measures.

Larger funds have some technical resources that handle implementations but that is generally pretty rare as it is a more commoditized resource.

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It sounds like a standard pe ops set-up, what exactly did you expect?

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Interesting. I do a lot of ODD / Value Creation work now. Looking for something that works more centrally across the fund (e.g. identifies and drives initiatives and tracks benefit realisation). Conscious this may be a role that is more senior (ops partner etc).

Not looking to do the implementation / grunt work for a transformation director

What firm?

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