Global Clients & Industries Program Strategic Initiatives Manager (24-months secondment OR Fixed term contract)

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

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.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, 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 .

Connect to your opportunity

As a GC&I - Global Clients & Industries Program Strategic Initiatives Manager, you will bring a strategic mindset and structured approach to support critical strategic initiatives that align with strategy and growth aspirations. You will be a thought partner, contributing to the design, management and execution of key strategic initiatives in a timely manner, working with various executive stakeholder audiences in Global Growth and across the global network.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing and executing work plan and structured approach for strategic initiatives, while helping drive leadership and team alignment
• Leveraging existing knowledge of Deloitte's businesses, Deloitte Global and Member firms, GLCSP and account leadership ecosystem, and Client portfolio
• Managing projects and multiple workstreams with a commitment to quality under tight deadlines
• Developing communication and presentations and interacting with poise to executive stakeholders through effective written and oral communication
• Working with the project lead to drive day-to-day project management and execute tasks effectively

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Proven relevant experience, including, but not limited to:
  • Direct client service experience
  • Working experience within the global organization and within our Member Firm(s)
  • History of operating effectively in global teams
  • Experience in designing, developing and implementing new solutions
  • Experience with change management and communications
• Bachelor's degree, Graduate degree preferred or equivalent
• Expertise in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Superior oral and written communication skills, ability to adjust communication style based on the audience, 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
• Strong project management and time management skills, strong attention to detail, ability to work independently under pressure, and manage multiple assignments while maintaining top quality deliverables
• High degree of endurance, responsiveness, and flexibility to work through multiple iterations of work and quickly adapt to constantly varying priorities and subject matter
• Exceptional understanding of how Deloitte and the network operate including account team and go to market priorities
• High comfort level working in a global, matrixed, and virtual organization with a fast-paced, results-oriented culture
• Solving complex challenges in a self-directed manner using structured thinking
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate trust among a variety of internal and external stakeholders, effectively managing expectations, and exercising influence to drive change

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can 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.

Connect with your colleagues

"Everyone at Deloitte builds relationships with their peers and puts in effort to get to know one another, making the work more enjoyable." - Deloitte Employee

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

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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