Private Equity
Designed and delivered global training for PE investment teams on spotting value-creation opportunities in portfolio companies.
BJT Partners · London
Value creation for and businesses.
BJT Partners helps investors and management teams unlock value through sharper strategy, stronger execution and practical AI-enabled improvement.
We start with the value creation agenda, not the technology.
Value creation levers
Seven levers we look across when diagnosing value creation.
BJT Partners looks across seven value creation levers when diagnosing where value is leaking, where management should focus, and what foundations need fixing first.
Not every project uses every lever. The right focus depends on the business context, the management agenda, the available data and the decisions investors and boards need to take.
The work remains bespoke and shaped around the value creation agenda, not forced through a fixed framework.
The output is a practical view of what to execute now, what to build next, what foundations need fixing first, and what should be parked.
- 01Strategy
Where the business is choosing to play, how it competes, and where management should focus to create value.
- 02Commercial Excellence
How the business grows revenue, sharpens proposition, improves pricing, strengthens sales execution and increases customer or client conversion.
- 03Operations
How work actually gets done, where productivity leaks, and where execution can become faster, cleaner and more scalable.
- 04Governance
How decisions are made, owned, tracked and escalated, so management can act with pace and control.
- 05People and Culture
Whether the organisation, leadership, capability and behaviours are set up to deliver the plan.
- 06Data & Technology
Whether management has the systems, visibility, definitions, data discipline and tooling needed to improve performance.
- 07AI Enablement
Where AI can credibly improve speed, quality, productivity, cost, service, insight or control.
What we do
Four areas of senior, operator-led work.
Each engagement is scoped tightly, led by a senior partner and built around the value creation agenda of the business.
A
Rapid Value Creation Reviews
Short, senior-led reviews that identify where value is leaking across workflows, teams, processes, systems and management routines.
B
Productivity and Operating Model Improvement
Practical support to simplify work, reduce rework, remove friction, improve management visibility and increase team capacity.
C
Sales and Commercial Enablement
Helping management teams improve sales execution, account discipline, proposition clarity, client development and conversion workflows.
D
AI Enablement
Identifying practical, high-value AI use cases that can improve revenue, productivity, decision-making and operating efficiency - then helping teams move from ideas to credible implementation.
How we work
Why BJT Partners is different.
A deliberately different model from traditional strategy consulting and from AI vendors.
- 01Senior operator-led work, not junior-heavy consulting leverage
- 02PE value creation experience, not generic strategy advice
- 03Workflow-led diagnosis, not tool-led AI use cases
- 04Practical recommendations built in conjunction with management teams, so they can actually own them
- 05AI used selectively, where it improves economics or execution
- 06Lower-cost, faster delivery model than traditional consulting firms
Experience
Example project areas across value creation, growth and operating model work.
A selection of senior-led engagements across private equity, services, industrials, financial services, media and consumer businesses. The themes below recur across PE-backed mid-market work.
- Strategy
- Commercial Excellence
- Operations
- Productivity
- Cost Reduction
- Transformation
- Governance
- Data
- Technology
- AI Enablement
Private Equity
Built training for PE investors on how to work more effectively with management teams to create portfolio value.
Private Equity
Helped shift a global PE firm from passive to active ownership through a firm-wide transformation programme.
Manufacturing
Worked with the CEO of a PE-backed industrial business to improve operations and integrate production onto one site.
Renewable Energy
Developed the growth strategy for a PE-backed UK solar installations business.
Medical Diagnostics
Developed the growth strategy for a PE-backed diagnostics company in Spain.
Coffee / Consumer
Designed the market-entry and growth strategy for a major new product set for a leading high-street coffee chain.
Coffee / Retail Rollout
Built the new-store rollout strategy for a leading coffee chain across stores, concessions, vending, drive-thru and office channels.
Food
Designed the international growth strategy for a leading food business.
Food
Led the strategic planning process for a leading international food company and built a three-year growth rollout.
Logistics / Distribution
Designed a five-year growth strategy for an international distribution and delivery business.
Industrial Distribution
Built a three-year growth, pricing, marketing and sales-force effectiveness strategy for a major UK industrial wholesaler.
Industrial Distribution
Established the strategic planning process and PMO for a leading UK industrial components wholesaler.
Formula 1
Evaluated the operating model of a top Formula 1 team and codified the drivers of performance.
Formula 1 / Advisory
Helped build the management consulting function of a leading Formula 1 team to deliver improvement work to sponsors and partners.
Consumer Healthcare
Applied Formula 1 operating model lessons to the consumer healthcare division of a global FTSE 100 pharmaceuticals business.
Nutrition Services
Designed pricing and marketing strategy for a nutrition services business.
Property
Redesigned the operating model of a leading property developer and investment manager.
Property Transformation
Identified profitability opportunities and designed a two-year transformation programme for a major property developer and investment manager.
Housing
Led the strategic planning process for a UK housing association.
Hotels / Middle East
Developed the Middle East growth strategy for an international hotel group.
Hotels / India
Developed the India growth strategy for an international hotel group.
Banking
Designed an international growth strategy for an alternative investments business within a leading investment bank.
Banking
Developed a growth strategy for a leading retail and commercial banking group.
Asset Management
Designed a compensation and retention model for a fund manager ahead of ownership and flotation changes.
Banking Technology
Estimated the impact of technology initiatives for a leading retail bank and strengthened its position in vendor negotiations.
Banking Distribution
Improved online and call-centre distribution strategy for a leading Australian bank.
Banking / IT Platform
Helped redesign the IT platform model for a leading retail bank and improved the interface between IT and profit centres.
Agriculture
Built a maintenance implementation plan and tool for one of Asia's largest sugar milling businesses.
Public Sector / Economics
Estimated the GDP impact on Australia of international agricultural negotiation scenarios.
Mining
Developed infrastructure strategy for a global mining company.
Media / TV
Developed an operations strategy for a cable and satellite TV business and helped it reach profitability.
Media / PE Diligence
Led cost-base analysis in due diligence for a major media target that supported a multi-billion bid.
Aviation
Determined fleet and seating configuration economics for a major airline’s aircraft order decisions.
Investment Banking
Conducted competitor strategy work across multiple major investment banks in capital markets, trading and M&A.
Investment Banking
Built the growth strategy for the corporate finance division of a leading European investment bank.
Equities
Built the growth strategy for the equities division of a leading US investment bank.
Stock Exchange
Designed growth strategy and operating improvements for a leading electronic stock exchange in New York.
Corporate Banking
Developed a growth strategy for the corporate banking division of a leading UK investment bank.
Retail Banking Operations
Helped design a transformation programme and PMO for a leading Dutch retail bank.
Who we work with
Built for PE-backed and ambitious mid-market businesses.
BJT Partners works with investors and management teams where there is a clear need to improve execution, productivity, growth discipline or operating leverage.
- 01PE-backed portfolio companies→
- 02Industrials and manufacturing→
- 03Consumer, retail and FMCG→
- 04Healthcare and life sciences→
- 05Property and real estate→
- 06Financial services and asset management→
- 07Business and technology-enabled services→
- 08Founder-led businesses entering a more institutional growth phase→
How we work
Bespoke work, shaped around the value creation question.
BJT Partners does not force a standard methodology onto every client. The work is designed around the value creation agenda and the practical decisions management needs to take.
Every assignment starts with the specific management, board or investor question. The work is then shaped around the business context, priority workflows, available data, leadership capacity and decisions that need to be made.
The aim is faster diagnosis, clearer decisions and better execution - not a standardised process applied regardless of context.
AI positioning
AI is a lever, not the starting point.
AI can be valuable where work is knowledge-heavy, communication-heavy or administratively repetitive. But poor workflow design, weak data discipline or unclear ownership cannot be fixed by tools alone.
These are examples, not a fixed menu. The right opportunities depend on the business model, workflow design, data readiness, governance requirements and where value is actually leaking.
Examples of where AI can credibly support include
- 01Sales preparation and account intelligence
- 02CRM hygiene and meeting follow-up
- 03Report drafting and management visibility
- 04Marketing and content productivity
- 05Onboarding, learning and knowledge access
- 06Finance, HR and operations workflows
- 07Customer, client or candidate communication support
- 08Repeatable analysis and document production
A more efficient consulting model
Senior judgement, focused scopes, .
Traditional consulting can be expensive because too much work is delivered through large teams and manual analysis.
BJT Partners uses senior-led judgement, focused scopes and AI-enabled delivery methods to reduce unnecessary cost, accelerate analysis and keep the work practical.
The aim is not bigger teams or longer projects. The aim is faster diagnosis, clearer decisions and better execution.
About
Led by .
Barry Trout is a former CEO of a global recruitment business, former CEO of one of the Nordics' leading climate technology companies, and a former COO of a leading listed UK property business. He is an ex-Oliver Wyman and ex-Boston Consulting Group consultant.
Barry is a PE value creation specialist who has advised a leading FTSE100 global PE firm for around 15 years. He has hands-on execution experience across private equity, recruitment, technology-enabled services, property, industrials, healthcare, logistics, Formula One, media, FMCG and financial services.
Barry has led operating businesses, advised investors and management teams, built value creation programmes, and supported practical transformation in complex organisations.
Where deeper technology, AI architecture or implementation challenge is required, BJT Partners brings in senior specialist support.
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