Senior Manager, Client Social Value Lead, Social Impact Team, Growth

at  Deloitte

REQ #

16836
Job description

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The newly formed Social Impact team brings together colleagues across Responsible Business, GPS Social Value and the people engagement and partnership elements of our World Climate agenda to drive a new social impact agenda at Deloitte. One that’s more coordinated and joined up. One that reflects the needs of our people, our clients and our society. One that makes a difference and is at the heart of everything we do.
This role is at the heart of delivering our social impact strategy, we are looking for a client facing professional to lead social impact with our clients. This exciting new role has a strong focus on delivering against the UK Government’s focus on Social Value, which created a high impact opportunity to shape and drive the development and delivery of our GPS social value activities, whilst also influencing and helping shape our cross-firm client societal agenda and activities.
The Government & Public Services (G&PS) practice has grown significantly in the past 3 years and is one of the Firm’s fastest growing industries. The Social Value model, launched in January 2021, requires procuring departments to attribute a minimum of 10% of the evaluation marks in tenders to social value. This role leads our response.
This role will also be required to look at how we take the best practise from GPS and scale impact across the firm, whilst also better leveraging our pro-bono activity to support client outcomes
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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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Are you passionate about making an impact on the world? Able to inspire others with your enthusiasm? Committed to the difference we can make to the world through our social impact activity with clients?

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience of working with and influencing senior stakeholders (both internal and external)
• Strategic thinker who can work independently
• Excellent commercial and business development acumen
• Experienced team leader
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Collaborative and strong team player
• Excellent communication and presentation skills,
• Ability to prioritise and self-manage
• Knowledge and experience of bidding or working in the public sector
• Experience of client facing work in a professional services context
• Understanding of the Firm and our Responsible Business/Purpose activities
• Experience of developing and delivering innovative activities, including taking ideas from seed to scale and/or replicating activities across multiple settings

• Develop, deliver &secure buy-in for our client impact strategy (leveraging thinking that has already taken place and the aims and aspirations developed for GPS Social Value.)
• Oversee further development and implementation of infrastructure to support social value bidding, & G&PS practice wide engagement and training to enable delivery.
• Work closely with the Public Sector Bid Team and Pursuits Centre of Excellence to instill best practice in social value bidding through bid advisor training, subject matter expert support and other activities, whilst also building networks and connections to other bidding teams across the business
• Coach bid teams for major bids in building social value into their win themes and question responses in a deliverable and sustainable way
• Work with key stakeholders across the firm (e.g. our UK, NSE & Global Purpose Teams, our Public Interest Team, Growth colleagues) to ensure that our client social value work is aligned and delivering against wider firm activities
• Provide SME input and strategic insight on social value to client account teams where required
• Lead our approach to client driven pro-bono working with SGOs and industries to build compelling pro-bono opportunities that allow us to collaborate with our clients to drive social outcomes, whilst supporting commercial objectives.
• Drive and champion environmental and societal purpose commitments
• Play a key role in the Social Impact leadership team, collaborating with colleagues across the team to deliver on the teams objectives around partnerships, people engagement and communications, and measurement.
• Identify opportunities to enhance our client social impact, communicating these to leadership and executing actions to take these ideas forward
• Manage a diverse team within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution, including taking line manager responsibility for two role