Strategic Initiatives Lead (Sr. Manager), Deloitte Global Private (2-year Secondment)

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Global Growth creates an opportunity for you to build a new perspective and see both Deloitte and our priority clients through a global lens. While collaborating with some of our most experienced leaders and talent across the organization, your voice will influence Deloitte's strategic direction, growth, brand, and impact in the market. Your network will rapidly expand, and you will create meaningful connections and relationships globally. You will build deep institutional knowledge and gain an understanding of clients' heart-of-business issues, and Deloitte's offerings and solutions. Global Growth's diverse, inclusive, and flexible culture is an opportunity for you to become a role model for agile working.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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Part of the core leadership support team, responsible for a broad range of project or initiative leadership duties on behalf of senior leaders in the organization. Coordinates strategy, plans initiatives, manages project/initiative work teams on a day-to-day basis, sets and organizes agendas, and communicates to key stakeholders and executive leadership regarding projects/initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• This role is key in designing, delivering and supporting complex, high-visibility Deloitte Private strategic initiatives as identified throughout the year to deliver on Deloitte Private objectives. Some examples could include: Globalizing priority market offerings for the private market, supporting signature client programs, designing and executing leadership development programs, etc.
• In close collaboration with multiple stakeholders and Deloitte Private initiative owners, lead and/or support the development of strategic perspectives on Deloitte Private market segments in key geographies and sectors, opportunity identification and prioritization, member firm and regional alignment and other activities that help realize global strategies
• Develop content for a high volume of presentations and reports for the DTTL CEO, Executive, Global Growth Executive/Council, Global Deloitte Private Executive, Deloitte Private Leadership and other high-profile leadership events as required
• Lead program management and core team coordination activities, including working with initiative leads to establish clear workplan and monitor progress against weekly, annual and multi-year plans
• Lead and/or support qualitative and quantitative analysis, concepts, frameworks and story board to advise senior leadership on delivering a measurable impact in focus areas, including investments
• Support the development and execution of change management plans and communication toolkits to assist member firms and functions in rolling out Deloitte Private initiatives
• Liaise with other Global Growth team members and broader Deloitte Private community to share leading practices

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in related field required; advanced degree from a top school preferred
• Proven relevant experience
• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills to identify interdependencies between issues, data, and outcomes; clear understanding of how moving pieces come together to build the big picture
• Strong project management and time management skills; ability to work independently under pressure, and on multiple assignments while maintaining top quality deliverables
• Exceptional ability to prepare executive ready materials that “tell-the-story” succinctly and logically; ability to flex the communication and messaging to the audience and context
• Outstanding research and analytical skills: ability to synthesize large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data and integrate into meaningful reports and recommendations
• Mastery of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) with strong attention to detail and best in class deliverables
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Prior experience with Global and/or Member Firm financial and pipeline tools preferred (i.e. CIR, Jupiter, etc.)
• Capable of building effective working relationships with internal stakeholders across multiple business areas, functions, and geographies
• Ability to design and deliver a holistic approach around people, process, and technology within the right strategic context, and lead all aspects of the project life cycle from concept to delivery
• Comfortable with creating reasonable structure to meet the objectives of the task at hand in ambiguous environment often with limited information
• Ability to multi-task and deliver on portions of multiple projects in a fast-paced, intense, results-oriented environment
• High degree of endurance, responsiveness, and flexibility to work through multiple iterations of work and quickly adapt to constantly varying priorities and subject matter
• Ability to navigate a global, matrixed, and mostly virtual environment for effective outcome
• Experience with the Best Managed Companies program and/ or Entrepreneur Summit is an asset

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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you'll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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“Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you'll make a far-reaching impact. “

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities based in one of our UK locations, with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both an online and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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