Senior Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - EY

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Cape Town, South Africa

5 days ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Senior Manager - Business Transformation: Transformation Design & Delivery across Public Services, Financial Services and Retail sectors
Are you a growth accelerator? Are you passionate about helping some of the world's largest and most successful companies achieve purposeful growth?

EY is helping our clients solve difficult problems and achieve their growth ambitions.

We believe that our value doesn't stop at strategy development; we help our clients implement our recommendations to transform the way they do business.

This is an opportunity to bring real meaning to your career by being involved in some of the most important transformative initiatives in our market.

It is an opportunity to bring your strategic vision, your entrepreneurial and innovative spirit and your ability to reinvent business to our clients and contribute to building a better working world.

Our Business Transformation team are seeking growth minded and solutions focused people who are passionate about truly making a difference.

Based South Africa, you will be working on high-profile engagements, with the brightest and best minds from across EY, finding innovative strategic solutions to some of the most complex and demanding problems.

You will be part of a high performing team committed to helping our biggest clients to define, design and commercialise new products, services, experiences and business models to transform their businesses.

This team leads the way in conversations with the clients and the account teams who support them, leading EY's approach to the market.

The Role Description:

As a senior manager in our Business Transformation team, you will work across our Consulting teams to identify, sell, design and lead end-to-end, complex and cross-functional transformation engagements in various sectors.

Your primary focus will be to work with our leading clients and their executive teams to design, define and commercialise new businesses, services, experiences and establish large scale agile transformation programs that drive growth and deliver long term value.

You will lead business development, driving discussions with clients and delivering market leading ideas and proposals to clients.

You will design the approach to delivering the engagement, assembling teams to deliver each work stream. You will also manage the relationships with clients and guide the overall delivery of value to clients.

You will manage multiple high performing teams and lead the development of careers of colleagues.

You will work closely with the team of partners that lead the Business Transformation competency as well as the Western Cape Consulting leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Building on the strategy of the client organisation, define the transformation vision, journey and delivery model for implementing transformation products, services, experiences and solutions.
Design, reinvent and innovate business models that will create long term value and disrupt markets.
Design, establish and operate innovation programs, including agile or lean approaches to developing new innovations in products, service, experiences or business models.
Facilitate design thinking workshops and sprints to define transformation solutions and potential roadmaps for implementation.
Crystallise and document the thinking of the wider EY and client teams so that ideas and approaches can be crisply and clearly communicated.
Lead and manage large scale crossfunctional projects and strategic transformations. Define and implement teams that orchestrate the delivery of transformation initiatives at clients.
Orchestrate, coordinate and project manage the transformation acceleration process.
Enable the implementation of concepts, solutions and systems that have been defined through research, strategy, ideation and innovation.
Analyse data and provide recommendations to client executives on strategic initiatives and transformations.
Drive business development, build and grow the pipeline. Drive the pursuit process to develop the proposal, approach, planning and commercials whilst ensuring adherence to the quality and risk management processes to protect the reputation of our firm.
Build client relationships and establish the team as a trusted advisor in the market place.
Convene diverse teams so their time is used productively and creates high value outputs.
Collaborate across EY teams and solutions to increase value for our clients, contributing to building a better working world.
Coach and develop our junior team members and assist them in crafting a career journey to assist others in achieving their purpose and objectives.

Skills and attributes for success:

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A passion for people — our people are our greatest asset. We need you to be able to lead project teams to bring out the best in our people and help them to develop and grow.
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Ability to build exceptional client relationships — our clients are at t