The Operations Team
The Operations Team contributes to making BC Partners a better buyer, and a better owner, by improving our collective appreciation of operational levers of value-creation and destruction, and our collective ability to impact them. Our eight operations professionals contribute to the investment processes and portfolio oversight, by supporting value-creation in individual companies.
Ongoing Monitoring and Improvement
The Operations Team is fully integrated in deal teams, building on BC Partners' long legacy of being active shareholders. The Operations Team, when appropriate, are involved from asset selection and due diligence through to the exit of a portfolio company.
Operational involvement can be across:
- Due Diligence
- Launching the Value Creation Roadmap
- Ongoing Monitoring and Improvement
- Add-on Acquistion Integration
- Exit Support
While the team interventions are bespoke - reflecting the specifics of the situation at hand - they make use of a growing number of standardized operational playbooks such as:
- The Value Creation Roadmap: providing focused support of prioritized initiatives which seek to deliver value early in the life of the investment
- Top-line Stimulation Initiatives: including pricing diagnostics, and the implementation of commerical effectiveness programmes
- Cost and Cash Controls: including "Expense Committees", procurement diagnostics, and various sector-specific operational efficiency programmes
- Technology and Data-Related Support: ranging from cyber-diagnostics, to technology landscape assessment and "AI Acceleration" programmes
In addition, the Operations Team runs the portfolio oversight process. This consists of a Quarterly Portfolio Tracker (QPT) and a monthly Portfolio Review Committee (PRC) .
