Consultant 2 / Senior Consultant Ernst & Young AE

Key Responsibilities

Pursuit Intelligence & Approach Development

• Understand pursuit objectives and required level of support, prioritize requests to focus efforts effectively, and align with pursuit teams on expected outcomes and deadlines.
• Build on existing knowledge to analyze industry trends, market dynamics, and competitor activities, generating actionable intelligence that informs pursuit strategies.
• Gather and enrich existing information on client account history, performance, and strategic priorities to identify opportunities, anticipate needs, and shape winning pursuit strategies.
• Shape a compelling perspective that demonstrates understanding of client challenges and anticipates potential solutions to address their needs.
• Identify and articulate EY s competitive edge by showcasing proprietary, field proven methodologies & tools, highlighting successful case studies in similar projects, supporting the assembly of a team that meets project requirements, and helping to identify a panel of relevant sectoral/functional experts.
• Develop detailed project approaches aligned with the RFP s scope of work, ensuring messaging is clear, consistent, and tailored to the client s context.
• Curate and adapt relevant support materials for pursuit needs.
• Provide feedback on proposal content to enhance win probability, considering both technical quality and commercial aspects.
• Support other ad-hoc requests from pursuit teams as needed, ensuring timely and relevant assistance.

Pursuit Coordination & Operations Management

• Coordinate and manage the proposal development process, ensuring adherence to timelines, facilitating internal reviews & approvals, and following established stages and processes.
• Develop and maintain trackers to log requests, prioritize tasks, and monitor follow-ups, ensuring smooth workflow and timely completion.
• Develop dashboards to track progress, measure performance, and provide visibility on work completed.

Pursuit Review & Excellence

• Review proposal content to ensure it is free of grammatical and formatting errors, and enhance the overall look and feel for a professional, client-ready presentation.
• Enhance the visual appeal and overall design of proposals.
• Conduct end-to-end quality assurance on proposals to ensure completeness, accuracy, and alignment with client and pursuit requirements.

Knowledge Management & Thought Leadership

• Gather market and industry insights continuously to enrich repositories and provide actionable intelligence for pursuit teams.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor s degree in engineering, Business, Economics, Computer Science, or related fields Masters in a relevant business discipline is preferred but not essential.
• Experience: 3+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Qualifications: PMP certification or equivalent is a strong advantage.

Skills

Business Acumen

• Exposure to key business domains, among which are transformation programs, performance improvement, and project management, enabling contextual understanding and project/client needs.
• Ability to quickly understand and ramp up on industry sectors.

Research & Analytical Thinking

• Strong research and synthesis capabilities.
• Critical thinking and structured analysis.
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of information into slides with clarity, logic, and impact.
• Working knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel dashboards).

Communication & Language Skills

• Excellent written communication skills (in both English & Arabic).
• Strong oral communication and storytelling skills.

Visual & Presentation Design

• Strong visual design skills (in PowerPoint).

Knowledge Management & Technology

• Knowledge management expertise to capture, organize, and reuse institutional knowledge.
• Familiarity with collaboration and content lifecycle management across Office 365 tools (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint).
• Experience with document automation, AI-based search tools, and tagging systems.