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About the Role
CSC Generation continues to grow through M&A, acquiring and revitalizing consumer and retail brands with strong recognition and loyal customers. The Investments team needs a senior individual contributor who can own critical workstreams across sourcing, diligence, execution, and portfolio value creation.
As Private Equity Senior Associate, you will evaluate and execute acquisitions spanning carve-outs, distressed, and special situations while partnering with functional leaders across merchandising, supply chain, digital, finance, and data/AI to drive post-acquisition performance. Within your first six months, you will have led workstreams on live deals, contributed to investment committee materials, and helped launch value-creation roadmaps for newly acquired brands.
This is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.
What You'll Do
Investment Analysis & Evaluation
- Screen inbound and proprietary opportunities across consumer, retail, ecommerce, and related sectors.
- Build and refine LBO and returns models, including sensitivity analysis by channel, store fleet, and digital KPIs.
- Lead market and competitive research to size opportunities and benchmark category performance.
- Develop sector theses (e.g., omnichannel retail, outdoor & sporting goods, home, specialty consumer) and maintain target lists.
Diligence & Transaction Execution
- Own day-to-day workstreams on live deals: data requests, model builds, Q&A, and coordination with internal teams and external advisors.
- Analyze historical and projected financial performance, working capital, unit economics, and store/SKU productivity.
- Partner with CSC's functional leaders (merchandising, supply chain, digital, finance, data/AI) to run operational and technology due diligence.
- Draft investment committee materials: investment thesis, value-creation plan, risks/mitigants, and exit scenarios.
- Support negotiation of key business terms, including structure, earn-outs, and go-forward management incentives.
Portfolio Value Creation & Monitoring
- Help launch 100-day plans and multi-year value-creation roadmaps for newly acquired brands.
- Track portfolio performance through dashboards and monthly reviews; flag variances and assist operators in course correction.
- Support initiatives such as pricing and promotion optimization, channel mix improvements, merchandising strategy, store fleet rationalization, and SG&A efficiency.
- Work with CSC's AI and analytics teams to embed automation and data-driven decision-making into portfolio operations.
Firm Building & Leadership
- Mentor and develop deal team members on modeling, research, and communication.
- Contribute to internal tools, playbooks, and templates that enhance the investment and operating approach.
Required Qualifications
- 4–7 years of total professional experience, including 2+ years in investment banking, management consulting, or restructuring/special situations advisory and 2+ years in private equity, special situations, or principal investing.
- Advanced financial modeling skills: full LBOs, operating models, returns analysis, and debt sizing.
- Strong command of accounting, cash flows, and capital structures; comfortable evaluating lender viewpoints.
- Ability to turn incomplete or messy data into clear insights and recommendations.
- Meaningful experience running workstreams on live deals (diligence, QofE, legal docs, financing, or integration planning).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work directly with senior executives and advisors.
- High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Comfort operating in lean teams with high ownership and ambiguity.
- Willingness to travel to portfolio companies and partners as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with consumer, retail, ecommerce, or multi-unit businesses.
- Exposure to distressed/special situations, corporate carve-outs, or complex integrations.
- MBA.
- Familiarity with BI tools, SQL, or Python.