SR-C And I-Strategy Insights Associate Director

The opportunity

C&I Strategy Insights Associate Director will be responsible for enabling business leaders understand C&I performance along with key drivers with actionable and impactful insights. This professional needs to be able to analyse data, derive patterns, infer insights in the lens of business context and generate easy to understand business narratives.

As an Associate Director, the role also demands strategic foresight to align insights with broader business transformation goals for the Super regions working closely with Leadership.

This role requires the ability to combine strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset with real-world perspective driven by an understanding of both clients issues and broader marketplace drivers. A collaborative mindset working across and through Europe West Super Region, Industry and SLs to identify growth enablers crucial to enable activation and growth.

They must be adept at not only understanding and interpreting performance data but also at implementing solution-oriented strategies that drive business growth and innovation.

Your key responsibilities

• Champion strategic insight initiatives that influence leadership decision-making across EuropeWest
• Drive alignment of C&I KPIs with strategic priorities and transformation goals
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with senior stakeholders to embed insights into go-to-market strategies
• Generate actionable Insights on C&I KPIs across revenue, sales & pipeline to Market and BD Leaders
• Build engaging and impactful presentations, and executive communications
• Identify growth opportunities through combination of internal and external sources
• Ability to articulate complex problems and processes to concise and simple ready to consume format
• Ability to use initiative, problem solving skills and to make appropriate recommendations at both an operational and strategic level
• Setup and oversee the governance, operations of data collation and reporting
• Build efficiencies, automation and standardization of data work flows
• Develop and maintain collaboration tools and portals to facilitate seamless and efficient operations.
• Provide baselines, targets and measure progress to goals.
• Based on insights, help Big Bet Leaders build and monitor the activation plan of Big Bet in strong alignment with Industries.
• Provide region oversight and leadership of Big Bet solutions
• Support Big Bet success stories are built via the EW client story initiative
• Support internal and external activation initiatives in joint with solution owners and Sector activation teams

Skills and attributes for success

• Proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups
• Strong executive presence with the ability to represent insights at leadership forums and strategic reviews
• Experience in navigating complex matrix structures and enabling cross-border collaboration
• Create and validate hypotheses based on business objectives
• Identify key drivers of performance and analytical/problem solving skills
• Support leadership meetings and drive action
• Cross SR/SL/SSL/Industry Networking, team building and stakeholder management.
• Produce insightful analysis to assist leadership on decision-making
• Build deep understanding of stakeholders business and requirements based on business context
• Identify and resolve issues that impact delivery
• Manage and support initiatives, clarify objectives, priorities, scope changes and timelines
• Strong business writing skills, with the ability to create content independently with limited input
• Ability to balance work autonomously as well as integrate with other areas of the business
• Good time and priority management skills across multiple projects under tight deadlines
• Solution focused mindset to translate strategy into plans and execute them seamlessly
• High attention to detail

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 14+ years of work experience
• Exposure with Big 4 or leading consulting firms is a plus
• Proven ability to manage complex processes and projects at a global level
• Demonstrated success in leading strategic programs or insight functions at a regional or global level.
• Experience working with or enabling leadership teams in super regions
• Agile program management experience
• Experience in professional services or similar industries
• Must have worked in one or more areas listed below:
  • Operations Management & Excellence
  • Project & Program Management
  • Client Services & Relationship Management
  • C-Suite & Leadership Enablement
• Graduate/Post-graduate in Operations, Business Administration / Management, Marketing
• Extensive experience working as a business analyst in a professional services environment, ideally with experience of revenue, sales and pipeline analysis
• Strong collaboration skills to enable teaming with other business functions

Ideally, you'll also have

• Ability to summarize business performance & drivers through easy to consume visuals/charts
• Map business problems to data and vice versa
• Data quality measurement and fix data issues
• Ability to embed external macro trends with internal performance and forecasts
• Familiarity with EUWest market dynamics and strategy frameworks
• Experience contributing to or shaping FY planning cycles through data-driven insights

Technologies and Tools

• MS PPT for senior execs including visuals, charts
• Knowledge of ML (forecasting, clustering, driver analysis) is a plus
• Knowledge of using data visualization tools like Power BI, Tableau
• Knowledge of Project Management concepts and tools.

What we look for

• Strong, confident in communication and articulation (verbal, written/charts)
• Analytical problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down business challenges into data driven use cases

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

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  We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

• Transformative leadership

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  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.

About EY

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Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

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If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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