Manager, Transformation Architecture, Consumer Products & Retail, Belfast

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The Team and the opportunity

Our Consumer Products & Retail (CPR) team work with high profile clients across the sector on the island of Ireland and internationally to solve their most complex issues. This is the perfect time to join a growing team and to make your mark across a wide variety of markets, sectors and industries. EY believes a better working world means addressing big, complex issues to deliver outcomes that grow, optimise and protect our clients' businesses. In Transformation Architecture, we help our clients see their future and define their purpose, and then we design, lead and deliver the end-to-end transformations to realise this ambition.

This is a leadership role, and you will be part of a talented team who will work closely with you to bring the best of EY’s sustainability offering to the sector. You will develop relationships with our key accounts in line with our Go to Market priorities. You will be client facing, scoping solutions based on client need and working in diverse teams to solve clients’ most complex problems. Most of your time will be spent embedded with our clients as you drive the best of our portfolio to market. You will be commercially focused, experienced at developing business, and comfortable operating at scale. You will be part of the decision-making around leveraging key accounts, growing the Competency and developing our talented team. If you have a keen interest in being part of a growing Consulting team in Ireland as well as intellectual curiosity and energy, then EY could be exactly the right place for you.

Your key responsibilities

• Be focused on delivery of challenging transformation projects, supporting clients through a number of transformation methodologies primarily across our the CPR Sector but you may also have opportunities to work across our other core sectors; Government and Public Sector, Health and Life Sciences, and Energy and Assets.
• Demonstrate intellectual strength and flexibility to understand complex problems and rationalise these into a workable solution.
• Provide rigorous analysis, undertaking research and utilising relevant datasets to drive fact-based decision making.
• Work within a team environment, committed to achieving solutions with the ability to work under pressure and balance multiple priorities.
• Bring a strong interest and commitment to developing and delivering leading edge solutions for clients.
• Demonstrate strong presentation and facilitation skills with an ability to succinctly and creatively present robust and evidence-based messages.
• Develop and produce high quality output against project objectives and meet tight deadlines.

Skills and attributes for success:

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Strong experience with a consulting firm or in industry, ideally with experience in one or more of our core sectors.
• Strong academic record including a third level degree.
• Experience of client facing roles with evidence of stakeholder engagement and communication success.

Ideally, you’ll also have some experience of delivering elements of projects such as:

• Strategy implementation including the design and development of long-term strategic roadmaps, implementation planning, critical success factors and development of best practice models to integrate strategy delivery.
• Conducting trend analyses to assess current market landscape, identifying growth levers, visioning and prioritising to develop a set of strategic choices, and guiding organisations through business model reinvention.
• Operating Model Design and Development to include Interim and Target Operating Models, and facilitation of workshop-based processes across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience in supporting the development of business and commercial cases for significant pieces of new investment or policy changes.

Consumer Products and Retail experience, as outlined below, is beneficial:

• Background in Business, Economics, Food Production or Operations preferred.
• Knowledge and experience of working within the Consumer Products, Retail or Agri-food sectors, with a focus on strategic reviews, enterprise-wide operating model design and transformation planning.
• Strong knowledge of the key trends within the sector, current challenges and key disruptors.
• A track record of successful design and delivery of transformation projects.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs: covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.