Senior Manager Business Transformation

Senior Manager – Business Transformation

EY’s Business Transformation team works with senior executives on their most pressing challenges to deliver tangible results. We are looking for accomplished, creative individuals who bring rigor, passion, and practicality to our growing team. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing transformational initiatives to enhance efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

The infrastructure gap continues to be a constraint to economic growth and service delivery to the most vulnerable. , leaving the most vulnerable out of full participation in the economy. If you are passionate about delivering innovative , complex and transformative infrastructure investment solutions that create large-scale socio-economic transformation to drive inclusive economic growth, then you are the person we are looking to join our team.

As a member of the Business Transformation team, you will help clients to solve complex enterprise-wide issues by formulating strategic initiatives, redesigning organisations, transforming the operations and processes, and improving organisational performance. You will work with our clients to help solve their toughest challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that are rigorous in their grounding, creative in their selection, distinct to each client, and practical in their ability to be taken to market. You will be skilled at working with and through clients to ensure that they have full ownership of analysis as well as implementation.

The opportunity

We are currently seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager to help add value to our private and public sector clients on their complex infrastructure projects by helping them define, understand and manage risks associated with their projects through transformation strategies that add value, and ensure effective procurement and implementation of complex projects.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage more than one assignment at a time while demonstrating quality and consistency of performance in every assignment and the ability to Support the operations and governance of client's large/complex projects and programs by designing and implementing multi-year Project Management Offices (PMO) or Transformation Management Offices (TMO).
• Support clients to lead large scale planning and execution of strategic large/complex projects and programs e.g. transformational programs, large infrastructure projects
• Demonstrate professionalism and confidence to deal with a range of stakeholder groups and management teams, with ability to adapt well to change and effectively communicate and present work products.
• Develop and execute comprehensive business transformation strategies that align with strategic goals and objectives.
• Apply knowledge and insights from client work and experience to wider business environment
• Lead and facilitate change management efforts by ensuring all stakeholders are engaged, informed, and supported throughout the transformation process.
• Use data-driven insights to make informed decisions, monitor progress, and measure the success of transformation efforts
• Plan and oversee the execution of transformation projects, including setting goals, defining project scopes, allocating resources, and managing timelines.
• Monitor budgets, schedules, work quality, scope and client deliverables and Identify potential risks and obstacles to engagement success, develop mitigation strategies, and adapt plans as needed.
• Work closely with various competencies and teams to ensure alignment and effective communication throughout the engagement and transformation process.
• Support the pursuit of new business opportunities, including building strong client relations, understanding client needs and EY solution offerings,
• Leverage existing relationships and build new ones to assist partners with generating new business opportunities and building relevant external networks and relationships.
• Demonstrate deep functional capabilities and professional knowledge, and stay current with industry and regulatory leading practices.
• Support the people development of the Business Transformation team by contributing to or leading training courses, recruitment, and team / wellbeing activities.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging feedback, identifying opportunities
• Share technical and other knowledge with the team drawing on previous experience and current learning.
  
  

To qualify for the role you must have

• MBA and/or professional certification (e.g. Pr. Eng/Tech , CPA, CFA, preferred.
• At least 10 years relevant work experience (consulting experience highly desired)
• Experience in one or more of the following: Strategy Project Management Office, Business Transformation, Capital Project/Programme Management, Capital/ Infrastructure Planning and Delivery Management, Revenue protection and enhancement, Operational turnaround and improvement, experience in delivering infrastructure PPP projects
• Ability to manage strategic and complex transformation and infrastructure projects
• Ability to apply analytical and conceptual thinking and provide structure to complex and ambiguous projects
• Effective time management and organisation skills , with ability to work under pressure while meeting the requisite quality delivery
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate and work effectively