Assistant Manager: EYP Strategy

EY; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Africa, based in Johannesburg, seeks an Assistant Manager in Strategy & Transformation to lead engagement work streams across Business Consulting and EY Parthenon Strategy. You will support business development, develop proposals, and manage high-performing teams while shaping innovative strategies for major clients.

You’ll help design and implement strategic roadmaps, build operating models, and drive transformation programs across industries, partnering with EY service lines to deliver

Qualifications

• Leading organisations develop corporate or divisional growth strategies.
• Define roadmaps and strategic plans to implement strategy.
• Design and reinvent business models for long‑term value.
• Advise on business model portfolios to create value.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagement work streams across Business Consulting and EY Parthenon Strategy.
• Support business development, proposals, and solution development.
• Manage high performing teams and develop colleagues' careers.
• Collaborate with EY service lines to increase client value.
• Drive cross‑functional transformation initiatives and data‑driven insights.

Skills

Team leadership

Client relationships

Strategic thinking

Transformation programs

Communication

Project management

Learning agility

Job description

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.

Assistant Manager in Strategy & Transformation

As an Assistant 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A keen interest in managing transformation or innovation programs.
• Ability to communicate , making complex systems and situations simple to understand. You’ll communication visually, verbally and in written reports.
• 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.
• 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, provides openly learns from and accepts feedback from others whilst admitting mistakes in order to learn.
• Knowlegde of leading innovation, transformation snd strategy frameworks or methods with practical experience in having developed or implemented projects using these frameworks.
• Strong commercial awareness and proven ability to present technical information in a meaningful manner to key stakeholders.
• Experience in strategy, innovation or transformation consulting.
• are intellectually curious and passionate about solving complex problems. We are looking for people who are purpose driven and ask better questions to seek better answers
• have an entrepreneurial and growth-oriented mindset. What you know matters. We are looking for people who are innovative and can contribute to developing EY-Parthenon’s position and our team
• are enthusiastic and collaborate well in teams. We are looking for inclusive people who value differences and have a real desire to both learn and coach others

Your career at EY

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

What We Look For

We are looking for passionate leaders with strong vision and collaborative commitment to teamwork to bring deep strategy, transformation and innovation expertise to our clients. If you have a genuine desire to help businesses achieve their full potential and to drive real-world strategy, then this role is for you.

What We Offer

• Success as defined by you: we’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Build a business and develop teams: an empowering, entrepreneurial working environment in which you will be rapidly building and growing a Strategy & Transformation business that make a real impact in the market. You will inspire, coach and develop other team members to create a high performing business.
• Continuous learning: personalised career development including coaching, experiences and formal learning so you’ll develop the mindset and skills you’ll need to thrive in the future.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY Parthenon | Real world strategy

EY-Parthenon is EY’s global strategy consultancy with more than 6,000 professionals with focus on a broad range of topics within Corporate & Growth Strategy, Transformation, M&A, Sustainability and Organization. We continue to grow our global presence and are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our Africa practice.

You will be a part of a dynamic team that applies the latest thinking, research and analytics to solve complex business matters. For smart, nice and driven graduates, working at EY-Parthenon offers the opportunity to change how market leading companies do business.

At EY-Parthenon we work with Corporate and Private Equity (PE) clients to help them grow and reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves to deliver value for the future. With global connectivity and scale, our teams focus on Strategy Realized — assisting CEOs design and deliver strategies to better manage challenges while maximizing opportunities. We are committed to using unconventional yet pragmatic thinking to deliver actionable strategies to help our clients navigate the ever-changing business landscape.

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