Assistant Manager/Manager Ernst & Young AE

Your Key Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for leading our client projects, shaping the deliverables, client relationships, and wider team. You ll also be involved in developing proposals and bids, and actively contributing to thought leadership and internal operational initiatives.

The selected candidate will be expected to:

• Understand a client s business, customers, and operations quickly, and develop mental, visual and verbal models to help clients understand opportunities, challenges and leverage points.
• Understand the state-of-the-art, for the client s use case.
• Develop actionable strategies that help our clients solve their most intractable and complex challenges, in order to accelerate growth and deliver long-term value.
• Collaborate effectively with subject matter experts as well as the organization s operations, business development, financial, commercial, and technical teams to achieve the optimal design.
• Engage clients to test understanding, refine requirements and develop tailored and compelling solutions.
• Distill business, customer, and partner constraints into digestible components for the design team, deliver designs, and convert the design into implementable and scalable solutions.
• Define roadmaps, business, service models or operating models that deliver on strategy.
• Participate in the agile delivery of a range of projects, defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Establish relationships and liaise with key stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage our sales pipeline, identify opportunities within existing clients, and driving sales activity all the way through close.
• Be willing to travel across the Middle East
• Champion Digital Design within the Government and Public sector and work with teams to design and scale digital transformation strategies and services.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

We are looking for someone who has a unique blend of real-world experience and theory, who has experience across different sectors, and who has a passion for bringing market-leading offerings and new ventures to market.

• You are entrepreneurial, you do the maximum with the minimum. You have strong commercial awareness and take smart risks. You understand how to use resources that you do not own, and find creative ways to get a lot done with very little. You are resilient, make smart decisions, and have a bias-for-action.
• You are an excellent verbal and visual communicator. You ask good questions, listen well, and quickly make sense of complexity. You present your ideas in a way that makes a lasting impression. You put together great visual reports and presentations that bring clarity and insight. You sketch while you are speaking, to illustrate that you understand and to inspire your audience to build on what you are saying.
• You deal in information and analysis. When faced with a problem or ambiguity, you know how to find the right people and information to find solutions. Information to you is an asset, and you pay attention to nuances, and are aware of what information you do not have. You are curious, always trying to understand the why, and asking what if .
• You facilitate change and motivate action. You understand how to facilitate a group of people to engage in critical thinking and drive towards an outcome. You know how to take on different perspectives and come to alignment. You are aware of and try to overcome biases. You build a convincing case, based on trust and evidence. Others are motivated to follow your lead, and help you accomplish your goals.
• You know how to lead and are passionate about people. You understand how to connect and build productive and trusting relationships with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. You know how to manage conflict and divergent interests. You demand the best from yourself and others around you, and support others to produce their best and go beyond their limits.
• You learn rapidly, eagerly, and constantly. You read widely and understand the drivers of economies, business, technology, and people. You enjoy sharing, applying, and contributing what you learn. You enjoy being challenged. You champion your own development and are hungry for feedback on how you can grow.
• You are Impactful. You bring positive energy into the room, grounded in trust, caring, and gratitude. You are smart and focused about priorities and can accomplish amazing amounts of important work. You are purpose-driven and have created successful results in your own personal life, at work, and in your community.