Manager - Eyp Strategy - Johannesburg, South Africa - EY

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Johannesburg, South Africa

3 days ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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The opportunity:

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

Based in 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, and the teams who serve them, to define, design and deliver major transformation opportunities in their business.

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

Manager in Strategy & Transformation:

As a manager in our Strategy & Transformation team you will work across Business Consulting and EY Parthenon Strategy to lead engagement work streams.

You will support business development, creating proposals and participating in solution development. You will manage high performing teams and develop the careers of colleagues.

Strategy & Transformation:

Your Key Responsibilities:

Assist leading organisations develop corporate or divisional strategies that accelerate growth and deliver long term value.
Define the roadmaps and strategic plans that will implement strategy.
Design, reinvent and innovate business models that will create long term value and disrupt markets.
Define and advise on the business model portfolios in which organisations should invest to create sustainable, long term value.
Design and build operating models.
Design, establish and operate innovation programs, including agile or lean approaches to developing new innovations in products, service, experiences or business models.
Lead and manage large scale cross functional projects and strategic transformations.
Analyze data and provide recommendations to client executives on strategic initiatives and transformations.
Enable the implementation of concepts, solutions and systems that have been defined through research, strategy, ideation and innovation.
Define and implement digital strategy that will transform client organisations and deliver additional value.
Drive business development, build and grow the pipeline.
Build client relationships and establish the team as a trusted advisor in the market place.
Collaborate across EY service lines to increase value for our clients, contributing to building a better working world.

Skills And Attributes For Success:

To qualify for the role you must have:

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 the centre of what we do. Through the delivery of Technology Transformation engagements, you will be responsible for managing key client relationships to make sure that we deliver quality and value.
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Ability to think strategically and to
solve complex problems. You will demonstrate strong critical thinking skills focused on developing solutions, creating logical arguments or analysis, assimilating largest amounts to complex information, identifying or anticipating issues or challenges.

Experience in
managing transformation or innovation programs.

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Ability to communicate, making complex systems and situations simple to understand. You'll communication visually, verbally and in written reports.
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Ability to manage projects -we help our client solve their complex technology challenges. You will need good project delivery skills to manage and deliver technology projects across our key clients.
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Ability to learn new ideas and capabilities rapidly through self-driven learning and research. You'll need to be able to assimilate new ideas and information rapidly, making sense of the world around you and at clients.

Ideally, you'll also have:

Leadership capabilities that accept responsibility, build high performing teams, scales through appropriate delegation and teamwork, shares clear direction, gains support and commitment from others, p