6 to 9 pp
EBITDA uplift by combining growth acceleration, margin expansion, and disciplined cost take-out
10 to 20%
SG&A and headcount reduction through thoughtful organizational restructuring
Up to 30%
SKU or product-line rationalization, freeing capital and leadership capacity for high-growth platforms
How we partner
Whole-company transformations
Our comprehensive transformations help organizations reset their performance trajectories. Whether triggered by margin pressures, growth imperatives, or competitive shifts, we help our clients create value across the entire profit and loss (P&L), encompassing commercial, operational, and financial aspects.
- Accelerate commercial growth and margin expansion through sales productivity and end-to-end profitability improvement.
- Realign cost structures across operations, SG&A, and support functions to improve agility and scale.
- Mobilize the organization through a transformation office with clear targets, pacing, and accountability.
Operating model and organization design
We help translate strategy into execution by redesigning how the business works—from structure and governance to roles and routines. The goal is to build an operating model that is fast, focused, and fit for the future.
- Redesign organizational models, decision rights, and governance to increase speed and improve clarity.
- Align teams, roles, and capabilities to customer needs and enterprise priorities.
- Embed management routines and leadership behaviors to boost performance from within.
Portfolio and complexity management
Complexity is often invisible, but costly. We help organizations align their customer and service portfolios with market demand and configure the operating model to deliver them more efficiently.
- Streamline product, customer, and business portfolios to reduce organizational drag.
- Reallocate capital, talent, and R&D focus toward the highest-return areas.
- Enable faster decisions and execution by removing structural and operational clutter.
- Reconfigure the end-to-end supply chain to make it more efficient.
Why Kearney?
A legacy of reinventing the enterprise
For nearly a century, Kearney has been the partner companies call when incremental improvement is no longer enough. From the earliest span-and-layer redesigns to today’s AI-enabled value orchestration, we have continuously evolved how large, complex organizations reset their performance trajectory. Our Regenerate Enterprise approach unites strategic focus, rigorous value tracking, and rapid execution so that growth, margin, capital, and culture advance together.
- More than 100 enterprise-wide transformations delivered in the past decade across chemicals and process industries
- Transformation office blueprint with governance, cadence, and digital tools that sustain momentum long after launch
Built for chemicals
High fixed costs, strict HSE requirements, and portfolio complexity make chemicals transformations uniquely demanding. Our sector-specific playbooks meet those challenges head-on.
- More than 250 chemical-sector transformations completed across base, specialty, and downstream segments
- More than 40 senior practitioners who have run P&Ls, operations, finance, and commercial functions inside chemicals companies
- Partner of choice to 30 of the top 50 global chemicals producers for margin uplift, portfolio reshaping, and operating-model redesign
- Continuous thought leadership on complexity reduction, circular-economy models, and next-generation operating structures