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18835
Job description

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Our Value Creations Team are both business model and industry specialists working with some of the most interesting and cutting-edge clients globally. The strength of our client relationships, combined with our sector depth and capability skillset, means we are frequently the business architects for designing and delivering some of the largest and most innovative transformation agendas.
Working with colleagues across Deloitte, we combine business design, process design and cost transformation with digital / technology fluency to solve our clients’ biggest challenges, bringing the unpredictable and unknown into focus to enable our clients with their boldest ideas, and turn concepts into reality.
We are a diverse team with deep industry experience alongside core operational skillsets. We are expanding our team and are looking for people who embrace change, brings a growth mind-set, and are eager to work in a high-paced innovative environment. We are particularly looking for individuals with expertise in the Consumer, LSHC or TMT industry.
As a Cost Transformation Senior Manager within our Value Creation Services Team, you will help manage our team of service designers, process engineers, business model architects and cost transformation experts to help clients identify and deliver opportunities to produce sustainable cost savings and margin improvements across the business, ultimately innovating and transforming their business models and core operations.
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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.

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As a Senior Manager in our team, you will work closely alongside Partners and Directors and play a supporting role in influencing and shaping the strategic direction and development of the team.

This includes:

• Effectively manage diverse teams, with an inclusive culture where people are recognised for their delivery of client work
• Support Leadership of client engagements and develop strong long-term client relationships as a trusted business advisor
• Own and develop propositions and leverage your industry expertise to lead projects, develop innovative thought leadership and support the growth of our business including business development
• Leverage your existing and develop new trusted relationships with our clients, identifying and sourcing new opportunities for Deloitte
• Actively lead the development of the cost capability of the Value Creation Services Team

We are looking for candidates with a mixture of business, technical, and project-based expertise to join us, working in fast-paced teams with other highly talented, fun and motivated colleagues.
We would like you to bring a combination of industry experience and strong business acumen, demonstrating skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:

Industry experience:

• Experience working within the Consumer, LSHC or TMT industries. Prior Consulting experience in these industries is also desirable
• Demonstrate a track record in cost diagnostic work across multiple major Consumer/LSHC/TMT clients to help bring examples from the sector and adjacent sectors. Specifically, any productivity examples of doing more with less resource be it £ or people
• Within your relevant sector, bring experience and knowledge across the value chain of the business to understand how financial business planning, cost allocation and budgeting works
• Demonstrate deeper cost expertise in one of multiple parts of the Consumer/LSHC/TMT business e.g. Sales and marketing, Supply Chain, operations and/or in multiple functions such as HR, Finance, IT etc
• Good understanding of cost principles and levers to reduce P&L cost across COGS, SG&A and R&D including productivity (doing more with less)
• Good understanding of how tech and digital will impact your sectors costs across the P&L
• Understand the key cost drivers disrupting the industry, and demonstrate a working knowledge of the typical challenges and opportunities within your area of expertise

Business / Operational experience:

• Proven experience in delivering and leading cost transformation related programmes, ideally within Consulting and the Consumer, LSHC or TMT industry
• Clear knowledge of the key cost drivers disrupting the industry, be able to apply your strong understanding of enterprise level cost principles and levers to reduce COGS, SG&A, and improve asset efficiencies
• Experience of supporting Directors and Partners lead successful multi-disciplinary teams and subject matter experts to identify a portfolio of opportunities and solutions
• Extensive knowledge of and experience in applying cost transformation and programme management methodologies to scope, plan, and lead the design and delivery of large-scale business change programmes on time and to budget
• Experience of balancing multiple engagements and internal commitments in parallel
• Demonstrable experience of building distinctive client relationships and delivering client experience
• Business development and sales experience and credentials, including successfully developing and converting pipeline of work at multiple clients, and leading responses to client or vendor bids and proposals
• Strong commercial acumen on pricing strategies

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Essentials:

• Degree, or equivalent, in Accounting / Finance / Business
• Significant experience within Consumer, LSHC or TMT Consulting at Senior Manager Level or in Industry where you have held Transformation/Strategy/Cost Transformation roles at a senior level

Desirables:

• Experience working in Finance functions, Finance Transformation teams or Business Development related roles within the business
• Advanced level degree including Master of Business Administration (MBA), or equivalent
• Management / Financial Accounting Qualification e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CFA;
• Successfully supporting responses to client or vendor bids and proposals
• Line management responsibility
• Experience implementing digital products;
• Knowledge of Cloud, AI and automation is a plus

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