Manager, Service & Operations, UKI Studio+ in City of London

Location: London

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About EY Studio+

Growth comes from solving problems that matter for people, customers, patients, employees, and society at large. At EY Studio+ UK, we are building a better working world, by putting the human first. Our work is rooted in the way people make decisions, helping us to assist businesses in making better choices and solving the most pressing problems. We work with organisations to create the platforms, products and services for tomorrow; making the world an easier, more enjoyable and sustainable place to live and work.

The opportunity

The work we do is big. Big in scale, ambition, impact – and big projects get taken seriously. We don’t create outputs for the sake of it. We create work that is driven to implementation.

The work we do is varied. We work across sectors (from government, healthcare, financial services and fast moving consumer goods) to tackle a huge variety of problems in numerous ways. One week you could be interviewing customers in their homes to understand how they make sense of their money, the next month you could be leading a workshop in Whitehall to articulate how a government department can embed innovation in their organisation.

We take our practitioners seriously and you will be given the freedom and support to develop your craft, your thinking, your work and your career in a way that suits you and delivers for the practice and your clients.

Responsibilities, Qualifications, Certifications

The role

We are looking for a Manager to join the Service & Operations Practice at EY Studio+ UK. This role is open to those with demonstrable experience of working in a client facing role, working to solve client issues in a structured and methodical way. You will have a portfolio of projects that you can talk through and demonstrate how you have applied business analysis and optimisation skills to business or organisational challenges either in house or within a consulting role.

There are a couple of things that we ask of everybody:

• You will be endlessly inquisitive, and ruthlessly user focused and able to use a combination of logic, empathy, rigour and storytelling to articulate a customer or business problem before working creatively and technically to articulate a service that solves it.
• You will be a natural collaborator. Ideas breed ideas, and so we work in multi-disciplinary teams and embed clients in our process. We work in the open, we share our thinking early and we build on each other’s contribution.
• You will be visual. We work generatively. We create things to clarify thinking, align understanding and move towards a solution that works.
• You will be iterative. No-one gets it right first time. We don’t expect to.
• You will be ambitious yet realistic in your solutions. Our work sits in the sweet spot between desirable, viable, feasible and allowable. Getting it there is a big part of what we do.
• You will be a doer AND a thinker and know when to switch from one to the other and how to create time and space for both.
• You will navigate complexity. People, organisations, technology, policies, regulations. Designing services puts you at the centre of complexity. We need to make sense of it all quickly, and flex and adapt to move through it effectively.
• You’ll be fascinated by service in all its forms with a desire to deliver great solutions in the teams we put together for clients, to help them improve existing services, invent new ones, and ultimately grow businesses.
• You will be competent in proven service transformation methods and know how to engage clients effectively, creating good work and advocates for EY Studio+ as you go.
• You will have experience gathering requirements, analysing data, business process mapping, statistical analysis and data visualisation and with reporting and presentation.
• You will be a problem solver and a critical thinker.
• You will be a self-starter and have an explorative mindset, creating new perspectives and identifying the spaces you can be impactful for both EY Studio+ and its clients.

Your key responsibilities

• You will develop and manage plans for project teams, update stakeholders, and apply an understanding of client needs to identify critical outcomes, barriers to success and changes in expectations or scope.
• You will manage project teams and their delivery in line with stakeholder expectations and agreed deliverables.
• You will develop relationships that can benefit our firm and our clients (e.g., with stakeholders in target organizations) and beyond the workplace to enhance our presence and impact in the community, demonstrating commitment to EY Studio+ and our professional standards.
• You will identify and share trends, topics and resources (e.g., professional bodies, market developments such as sector-specific trends, regulatory guidance) that will increase the relevance and value of our service delivery and seize opportunities to grow knowledge.
• You will take a systematic approach to making decisions, considering all relevant data.
• You are considered a direct point of contact for client and team, speak to clients regularly about future trends, and begin to own and grow the firm’s relationship with the client.
• You will maintain open and proactive communication and build credibility based on understanding client issues and offering innovative solutions.
• You will create and deliver presentations that engage a range of audiences and respond to their questions and concerns.
• You will integrate data and apply judgment in forming practical insights and addressing potential issues, leveraging opportunities and analyses that enable decision-making by critical stakeholders.
• You will share technical, sector and market knowledge to inform client thinking.

Skills and attributes

• You will confidently and authentically present complex messages skilfully, using a variety of media and methods that build excellent relationships based on trust.
• You will demonstrate influencing skills that address the varied interests and individual style of others, recognizing people have different sources of motivation and ways to achieve success.
• You will create a positive team environment, balancing individual initiative with team collaboration and with EY priorities, and encourage people to speak up and express differing views.
• You will adopt appropriate coaching techniques to meet the various needs of team members.
• You will improve commitment and engagement of team members, while focusing on the achievement of their goals, providing constructive feedback tailored to each person’s style and environment.

To qualify for the role you should

• Be able to describe EY Studio+ UK capabilities and commitments accurately when discussing possible business opportunities with external contacts.
• Show that you have consistently produced customer-specific work including customer journey mapping, market research, customer segmentation and customer strategy that is of high quality that is accurate, complete and compelling.