SaT-VB-Associate Director

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The opportunity:

We are looking for Product Heads (Sr Managers) who will be responsible for building and leading products journey (Business cum Digital enablement) for EY’s business growth in the marketplace. It will be a scalable product enabled for B2B accounts (Fortune 500 firms) globally addressing specific business needs of clients. It will inculcate visionary mindset, next generation approach, unconventional thinking, entrepreneurial modest, helping organizations to reimagine and scaling digital centric business models.

Your key responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of market, clients, business, and digital needs/requirements for manifesting a product. Having a strong thought leadership, knowhow of emerging trends (business and digital) such as industry/sector/functional nuances & Gen AI and CxO’s market priorities enablement would be few key dimensions for this role.
• The role would manifest:
• Deep understanding of market and industry emerging trends and direction
• Ability to proactively identify the future needs (3-5+ years ahead) and align those dimensions into a product.
• Strong business & thought leadership and global outlook on various areas.
• Enabling CxOs mindset/priorities and strategic imperatives into product design/development through a consultative approach.
• GTM and commercialization of product including industry/sub-industry orientation.
• End to end enablement (business to product design, development, successful roll out and continuous iterations/improvements) and having an eye on Value/ROI and customer centricity.
• Digital strategy and roadmap (Including areas such as data management/integration, analytics, AI/ ML strategy and Automation).
• Ability/Flexibility to lead/work on strategic global client engagements post building a product (client specificity/inculcation).
• Embedding EY Framework and methodology and bringing the best practices of industry/market.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Able to ideate, strategize and having a ‘big picture’ and ‘strategic mindset’. Foreseeing market/client needs (futuristic) and enabling it.
• State of the art digital mindset/vision. Thinking from client’s perspective (growth, ROI, market/product differentiation etc.) and modulating a product design/development/roll out.
• Alignment on end client objectives such as ‘Value’, ‘Differentiation’, ‘Ease of Use’ and ‘long term enablement’.
• Able to work creatively and systematically in a time-limited, problem-solving environment.
• Flexible, curious and creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills and cultural dimensions.
• Team player, open, pleasure to work with and positive in a group dynamics.
• Intercultural intelligence and experience of working in more than one country and/or multi-cultural teams with distributed delivery experience.
• Ability to work with teams across countries (including different time zones).
• Emphasize on business & practice development and team management/coaching/leadership inculcation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously to meet tight deadlines and drive projects to completion with minimal supervision.

To qualify for the role, you must have the following dimensions:

• 12+ years of global experience in business, strategy and digital areas with focus on continuously improving existing frameworks, taxonomy & metrics through infusion of industry best practices, current & emerging trends.
• Ability to think from business perspectives, bringing in industry and sector perspectives while building solutions.
• Proven record of Multi million revenue/profitability enablement (across markets/countries) from developed product in the past. Had an experience of scaling up business through products distinctiveness.
• Having an intricate awareness of sector trends, business, process, and nuances. Expertise in one or more sectors (end to end)
• Proven abilities in ideating, designing and developing a world class product with customers globally. Also spearheading a product release/refresh through the lifecycle.
• Ability to relate the product success with outcome/ROI orientation. An eye on differentiation, transformation and reimagination of business globally
• Facilitate full implementation life cycle from scoping to deployment of critical & complex custom designed, multi-tiered, business applications that deliver exceptional business value.
• Lead value proposition on new products spanning full product lifecycle to modernize legacy platform & user experience.
• Creating new solutions & improvising existing ones and weaving together existing ones to build robust solutions.
• Participated in project discovery & definition workshops contributing to creating scope & development estimates.
• Collaboration with internal & external stakeholders to help maximize the value of products & services.
• Willingness to mentor team members.
• Excellent thoughtfulness, technical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Ability to think strategically/end-to-end with result-oriented mindset.
• Ability to build rapport within the firm and win the trust of the clients.
• Willingness to travel extensively and to work on client sites / practice office locations.

What we look for:

• A team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience, and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment.
• Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with prominent businesses across a range of industries.

Sourcing Avenues:

• Strategy/Consulting firms such as MBB, Big 4s, Boutique firms etc. (current and past). They may be currently working in other product firms (B2B) and can be considered provided they have past experience of Strategy/consulting firms.

Experience and Education:

• A bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or Analytics. MBA or equivalent Master's degree is preferred.
• 12+ years of experience. At least 7+ years of progressive post-graduate management consulting experience in top-tier consulting firms.
• Must be willing and able to travel on short notice. 

What we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success, as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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