EY
Website:
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Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ernstandyoung
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Professional Services
Job details:
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GDS SaT – EY-Parthenon – Venture Building – Assistant Director
At EY-Parthenon, we have been investing heavily in our Venture Building practice and scaling our capabilities to re-imagine the anatomy of our clients' organizations to either turbocharge their core or build new digital-native businesses.
The opportunity
We are looking for Sr Managers who will be responsible for development and execution of growth strategies and disruptive business models for clients. EY-Parthenon's Venture Building practice is a growing global team of business entrepreneurs and builders, product experts, designers, and engineers and along with deep industry insights to provoke unconventional thinking, partners with organizations to re-imagine and scale-up a portfolio of digital centric business models. We help our clients innovate at the speed of a start-up, leveraging their core strengths to deliver breakthrough impact fast and with targeted capital investment. Part art and part science, we re-imagine the anatomy of traditional businesses. And we help de-risk execution and realize value at scale.
Your Key Responsibilities
As a Venture Builder, you will
- Lead the development and execution of growth strategies and disruptive business models for clients, defining both the field of opportunity and the scope of the digital businesses to drive significant business impact.
- Oversee a portfolio of client engagements, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and delivering needle-moving value to clients.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with C-level executives, acting as a trusted advisor on growth-related matters.
- Drive thought leadership in growth strategy, contributing to the firm's intellectual capital and enhancing its market presence.
- Mentor and develop a team of consultants, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning to support their professional growth.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Develop strategy frameworks to guide multidisciplinary teams that include design thinkers, data scientists, industry, and functional teams
- Create concept design based on segmented customer proposition and market dynamics
- Create detailed value proposition and solution design and P&L / business case detailing for solution
- Define GTM and commercial strategy and hypothesis around customer acquisition and monetization models
- Define next-gen user centric end-to-end experience maps and signature journeys
- Work with product teams to co-create rapid prototypes in controlled environment
- Define future state operating model draft to design multi-phase growth roadmap
- Design priority analytics backed use cases with potential value sizing and preliminary algorithms
- Leverage data analytics to identify high-impact growth opportunities and develop supporting use cases
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends to inform growth strategy recommendations and maintain a forward-thinking approach
Skills And Attributes For Success
- Solutioning and problem solving – being able to listen to the client's business problem, identifying opportunities to solve through Digital, and the ability to bring firm's collective expertise to design impactful solutions
- Design Digital-led business strategies – build digital strategy frameworks using inductive thinking and tools such as market analysis, digital and start-up ecosystem assessment, customer research, macroeconomic forecasting, and digital portfolio optimization
- Product Strategy experience – product planning, product strategy, collaborate and engage cross functional teams - engineering, marketing etc.
- Business and Commercially Driven – working in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value to our clients
- People Development – coach and mentor team members to support achievement of their career goals
- Building Relationships – Strong working relationships with clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers. Skilful at choreographing digital business building ideas, brands, people, and emotions
- Project Management – lead project teams comprising of colleagues from across the Strategy and Transactions sub service lines
- Data and AI Strategy and technical data architecture design. Able to assess and establish complex Data architectures to deliver the product business needs and outcomes.
- Understanding of tech marketing to align product development and customer acquisition strategies. Be able to understand the market sizing, value proposition and product launch and establish the growth & adoption agendas.
- Required Leadership Skills
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to develop long-lasting relationships both internally and externally
- Ability to help define the vision and participate in and promote a digitally innovative culture
- Ability to foster relationships and create demand within existing and new accounts
- Ability to prioritize effectively on projects and adapt quickly to new challenges and concepts
To qualify for the role, you must have
- A bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or Analytics and 8-12 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7-10 years of related work experience
- MBA or equivalent Master's degree is preferred
- At least 7 years of progressive post-graduate management consulting experience in a top-tier consultancy in Strategy, Digital, Analytics practices or industry equivalent groups
- Strong expertise in select industry sectors for e.g., consumer & retail, financial services, energy etc.
- Comfortable in articulating how digital impacts top-line (e.g., new business models, platforms) and bottom line (e.g., efficiency and productivity) opportunities
- Must be willing and able to travel on short notice
What We Offer
EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
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