Ecosystem & Alliance Enablement Lead - Assistant Director

EY; Philippines; On-site; PHP 2,600,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Philippines seeks a GDS Ecosystem Emerging Relationships Specialist – Assistant Director to bridge ecosystem formation and alliance operations across global Service Lines. You will enable end-to-end ecosystem relationships, govern early-stage engagements, and partner with Risk, Legal, Finance and Alliance leadership to ensure scalable, compliant processes.

This role involves collaborating with Service Lines and cross-functional teams to standardize operating models, drive governance, and

Qualifications

• Strong experience in ecosystem enablement, alliance formation, alliance operations, or partner program support within a global professional services or technology environment.
• Solid understanding of operating models, governance frameworks, and cross-functional orchestration across complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Proven ability to operate effectively at the intersection of strategy and execution, particularly within ambiguous or early-stage environments.
• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend practical, sustainable solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to succinctly articulate issues, risks, and process requirements, and confidently engage senior stakeholders across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end formation and activation of new ecosystem and alliance relationships, working closely with global stakeholders across Service Lines, Risk, Independence, Quality, Legal, and Finance.
• Guide business teams through intake, approval, and onboarding processes, ensuring clarity of requirements and adherence to governance standards.
• Perform first level reviews of business cases, intake forms, and supporting documentation for completeness, accuracy, and readiness.
• Design and operationalize foundational operating models for emerging relationships, including roles, processes, reporting, and stakeholder engagement cadences.
• Partner with Alliance Operations and Markets teams to ensure a smooth transition from formation to steady state operations for relationships that demonstrate scale potential.
• Establish early tracking and reporting mechanisms (pipeline, activity, benefits, risks) to support informed decision making.
• Drive adherence to risk management, independence, and quality control requirements throughout the lifecycle of emerging relationships.
• Maintain accurate records in ecosystem and alliance systems of record, ensuring audit-ready documentation and traceability
• Support internal reviews and checkpoints to assess readiness for scale, continuation, or exit.
• Identify process bottlenecks and opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate ecosystem formation and early operations activities.
• Develop playbooks, checklists, FAQs, and guidance materials to improve consistency and stakeholder experience.
• Translate operational data into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Act as a central coordination point across Service Lines, GDS teams, and onshore leadership, ensuring alignment and timely progression of activities.
• Support leadership and governance forums through preparation of materials, status reporting, and action tracking.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders involved in early-stage alliances and ecosystem engagements.
• Support efforts to ensure that the ecosystem formation process is documented, reviewed, and refreshed, on a regular basis.
• Identify opportunities to educate global stakeholders on the ecosystem formation process to build awareness and promote adherence to the process.
• Bring innovative thoughts, take proactive steps for improving the existing process. Find better ways to perform existing tasks through continuous process innovation, take the initiative in identifying possible bottle-necks and take suitable measures to mitigate them.

Skills

Ecosystem enablement

Alliance formation

Alliance operations

Partner program support

Governance frameworks

Project management

MS Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration

Masters in Business Administration

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Job description

EY Philippines seeks a GDS Ecosystem Emerging Relationships Specialist – Assistant Director to bridge ecosystem formation and alliance operations across global Service Lines. You will enable end-to-end ecosystem relationships, govern early-stage engagements, and partner with Risk, Legal, Finance and Alliance leadership to ensure scalable, compliant processes.

This role involves collaborating with Service Lines and cross-functional teams to standardize operating models, drive governance, and