Business Transformation Design and Delivery Manager

EY NextGen; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking a Manager in their Business Transformation team in Johannesburg. You will lead client engagements, design innovative strategies, and manage high-performing teams. Ideal candidates have 5-10 years of management consulting experience and a relevant degree. This role promises a dynamic environment and meaningful impacts for clients.

Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Diverse and inclusive culture

Empowering entrepreneurial environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years management consulting experience.
• 5-10 years relevant working experience.
• A postgraduate degree will be considered beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist leading organisations develop strategies that accelerate growth.
• Design operating models for sales and service functions.
• Lead the development of proposals and manage project teams.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Client relationship management

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant Bachelor degree in Engineering, Marketing, Commerce or Sciences

Tools

Kanban

Agile

Scrum

Microsoft Project

Job description

The opportunity

The opportunity to join EY in our Business Transformation team in South Africa, helping clients achieve growth and transform the way they do business.

EY is helping our clients solve difficult problems and achieve their growth ambitions. We help clients implement our recommendations to transform the way they do business. Our Business Transformation teams design launch and commercialise products, services, experiences and new business models for our clients. This is an opportunity to bring real meaning to your career by being involved in transformative initiatives and contributing to building a better working world.

Our Business Transformation team are seeking growth-minded and solutions-focused people who are passionate about making a difference. You will work on high-profile engagements with the brightest minds from across EY, finding innovative strategic solutions to complex problems.

You will be part of a high-performing team that leads conversations with clients and account teams, supporting EY’s approach to the market.

The Role Description

As a manager in our Business Transformation team you will work with cross-functional teams across our Consulting business to design operating models focused on sales and service design, sales effectiveness and pricing optimisation. You will support business development, create proposals and participate in solution development, delivering market-leading ideas to clients. You will manage high-performing teams, coach junior team members and contribute to developing 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 create long-term value and disrupt markets.
• Design and build operating models for sales and service functions including process governance, organisation, technology and the supporting ecosystem.
• Design pricing architecture for products and services to ensure commercial viability and achieve financial targets.
• Design, establish and operate implementation programs including agile or lean approaches to design, build and launch new products, service experiences and business models.
• Analyse data and provide recommendations to client executives on strategic initiatives and transformations.
• Lead the development of proposals from understanding client requirements, defining the approach, methods and timeline to determine the team and commercials.
• Follow EY quality and risk management processes to protect the firm’s reputation and manage engagement risks.
• Manage project teams, project financials and invoicing process.
• Ensure quality deliverables and leverage EY thought leadership, delivery methods and tools to deliver products and outcomes.
• Build client relationships and establish the team as a trusted advisor in the marketplace.
• Collaborate across EY service lines to increase value for clients and contribute to building a better working world.

Skills And Attributes For Success

We are looking for passionate leaders with a clear vision and collaborative commitment to teamwork to bring deep transformation and design expertise to our clients. If you have a genuine desire to help businesses achieve their full potential and to make a positive impact, this role is for you.

• A passion for people — our people are our greatest asset. Lead project teams to develop and grow our people.
• Ability to build exceptional client relationships and manage key client relationships to deliver quality and value.
• Strategic thinking and complex problem solving, with strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly, visually, verbally and in written form.
• Experience managing transformation or innovation programs and projects.
• Ability to learn new ideas rapidly through self-driven learning and research.
• Leadership capabilities: responsibility, high-performing teams, delegation, direction, feedback, and learning from feedback.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to present technical information to executives.
• Experience working across functions to understand interconnected challenges.
• Intellectual curiosity, purpose-driven, and the ability to ask better questions.
• Keen to travel within South Africa, other African countries and globally for project opportunities.
• Entrepreneurial and growth-oriented mindset.
• Collaborative and inclusive, valuing diversity and coaching others.

Technical Requirements

• Minimum 5 years management consulting experience.
• 5-10 years relevant working experience.
• A relevant Bachelor degree in Engineering, Marketing, Commerce or Sciences.
• A postgraduate degree will be considered beneficial but not required.
• Lean six sigma qualifications are beneficial but not required.
• Valid passport needed for occasional travelling.

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. We count on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.

What we offer

• Success defined by you: tools and flexibility to make a meaningful impact your way.
• Build a business and develop teams: an empowering, entrepreneurial environment to rapidly build and grow a Business Transformation practice that makes a real market impact. You will inspire, coach and develop other team members.
• Continuous learning: personalised career development including coaching experiences and formal learning.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: you’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and to build trust in the market. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries help clients reimagine the future, reframe strategies, grow, transform and operate. EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for today’s complex issues.

As a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy and transactions and consulting services, we focus on building a better working world. That starts with a culture that provides training opportunities and creative freedom to improve things. The EY experience lasts a lifetime, and feedback is essential to maximize potential and be part of a dynamic team.

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

Required Experience: Manager

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology, Kanban, Project / Program Management, Agile, Waterfall, Project Leadership, Application Development, Project Management, Scrum, Microsoft Project, SDLC, Project Implementation

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1