Most consultants hand over a report. We stay in the business, manage the programme, and leave only once the numbers move.
We stay until the numbers move.
We map the commercial value creation opportunity in the first 90 days. AI-assisted data analysis helps us identify pricing and segmentation levers faster. Quick wins identified, VCP agreed, programme structured around your hold period.
Map the opportunity in the first 90 days. Quick wins identified, VCP agreed, programme set around your hold period.
Our partners work inside the business, not from a client service centre. We design and run the programme alongside management, removing blockers in real time.
Embedded with management. Programme run end-to-end, blockers cleared in real time.
We build the capability into the organisation so the EBITDA improvement is defensible at exit. The team continues to perform after we leave.
Capability built in. EBITDA holds at exit.
We run six core service lines, all built around measurable commercial impact in Private Equity-backed businesses.
Pre-deal assessment of commercial value creation levers, covering pricing, sales effectiveness, and go-to-market opportunity before close.
Identifying and recovering structural margin leakage. Typically 2–4pp gross margin improvement in the first twelve months.
Example: +5pp gross margin at a PE-backed welding manufacturer →
Redeploying rep time from admin to selling. Building performance management systems that surface outliers and drive accountability.
Example: +22% commercial margin at a national homecare provider →
Opening new geographies or channels. From market assessment through to hiring plan, distributor selection, and first-year P&L.
Example: regional sales doubled for a paper supplier in Asia →
Designing and embedding RGM frameworks across B2B2C businesses, including category, pack, and price architecture built for long-term margin.
Example: 5 to 7pp gross margin recovered in consumer healthcare →
We define the headcount plan and build detailed role profiles for senior commercial hires. We then work alongside specialist headhunters to run the search, ensuring the brief is precise and the right candidate is secured.
Selected case studies: €7m in six months from agent segmentation · +5pp gross margin at a welding manufacturer · +36% revenue in industrial services · ~$163m margin from lifecycle parts pricing
Our partners have held Operating Partner, portfolio company MD, and in-house Private Equity consulting roles, not just advisory mandates.
Former Operating Partner at a Private Equity house. McKinsey independent expert. Built and led global sales teams in B2B chemicals. 20+ years of commercial transformation delivery.
15+ years running commercial transformation projects across Private Equity-owned assets. Deep expertise in sales and pricing across FMCG, industrial goods, and luxury. Former top-tier sales and marketing boutique consultant.
Questions we get from Private Equity teams
Three to twelve months, scaled to the transformation. We commit until the EBITDA impact is visible in the P&L.
Commercial impact is typically visible within three to six months, with quick wins identified in the opening weeks. The full programme ramps up across the first year.
We work across industrial manufacturing and B2B services, with proven delivery spanning specialty films and engineered plastics, steel, copper, ceramics, welding and industrial casting, paper and packaging, beverage and consumer goods, homecare, consumer healthcare, industrial services, and B2B software and assessment platforms. Our deepest track record is with Private Equity-backed businesses in industrial manufacturing, B2B services, and B2B SaaS.
Measurable EBITDA uplift sustained after the engagement closes. Specific KPIs are agreed at entry, tracked through the value creation programme, and validated against a baseline. The case studies on the site each show the numbers we held ourselves to.
Alongside. Our partners embed in the business, work with the management team, and hand over capability so the change sustains after we leave. We are operators, not advisors.
Flexible. From a single senior expert through to a full delivery team, scaled to what the business actually needs. Most engagements run with two to four senior people from Hirondl, predominantly experienced operators rather than career advisors, with in-country partners where the work spans multiple geographies.
Across the UK, DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), wider Europe, and the US, with partners based in London, Munich, Rome, and Chicago, and in-country support where an engagement spans multiple markets.
Both. We are engaged by Private Equity funds and work hands-on inside their portfolio companies. The fund sets the value creation priorities, and we deliver them alongside portfolio company management, so the work is tied to the investment thesis from the start.