Pursuit Strategist in Zurich 80-100% - Ernst & Young - SWITZERLAND

Job description

In a world that’s changing faster than ever, our purpose acts as our ‘North Star’ guiding our more than 300,000 people – providing the context and meaning for the work we do every day. In doing so, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, clients and communities. Thanks to our innovative services in auditing, tax consulting as well as transaction and management consulting, we proudly drive our clients into the future.

As the only one of the Big 4 with a specialist cross-border practice dedicated to the Financial Services Sector, we offer our clients seamless, consistent and high-quality services around the globe.

If you are a commercial, competitive and creative bid professional with a passion for creating compelling campaign messaging and winning in the market – this could be the role for you. EY is looking for a CaPS to project, manage and develop value propositions for our global firm’s most strategically important and highest value sales opportunities.

The CaPS is responsible for strategic pursuit opportunity management and developing pursuit campaign messaging to help win new business.

What you can expect – enriching experiences that will last a lifetime

· Managing the entire pursuit process which includes developing win themes, writing the document, supporting presentation preparation, working with creative design and project managing the proposal process.
· Taking a proactive role in driving the pursuit process and developing strategic and tactical proposals, timelines and procedures to win new business.
· Monitoring the progress of all pursuit activities to ensure adherence to deadlines and quality standards. Monitoring and analysing the impact of business/financial news on targets.
· Facilitating meetings with account team members to evaluate the business and client issues and helping develop stakeholder engagement strategies from the beginning of the pursuit process.
· Attending and actively contribute to the kick-off strategy, status, follow-up/debrief, and presentation preparation meetings.
· Developing top quality proposals, presentations and other client meeting documents including final editing, proofing and delivery of materials to the target to ensure consistency.
· Ensuring that message quality, format, and content meet the target's objectives and are consistent with firm-wide communication guidelines.
· Defining best practices and ensuring that leading practices are shared within the pursuits group and across EY.
· Engaging with the business to drive the use and development of content for our ‘Proposal of the Future’ self-service suite of materials, tailored by market.
· Helping develop, drive and execute on various wider business development projects and initiatives.

What you can contribute – skills for shaping the future

· Strong written communication skills in English and German with an ability to convey value
· Demonstrable project management experience with ability to coordinate multiple projects and initiatives at one time
· Ability to build networks with internal stakeholders and the wider business development community
· Good writing skills
· Good communication skills – verbal, written and visual
· working knowledge of a professional services organization is a plus
· Willingness to travel across EMEIA
· Experience in the financial services sector and an innovation mind-set is a plus
· Team player mentality

Stick to your plans and realize your goals with us! Design your career with EY in a culture that promotes diversity and education.

· International multi-cultural team of highly motivated professionals
· Constant personal development with a steep learning curve – a system of trainings, mentoring, counselling and on-the-job learning
· Modern working environment and equipment, fostering mobile working flexibility
· Transparent performance-based recognition and progression system
· Acquire a fully accredited corporate MBA (EY Tech MBA) from Hult International Business School, whilst working with EY, completely free*

Your ambition is as bold as ours. As part of our high-performing teams, you’ll build the tech skillsets and growth mindsets to become the leader you want to be. The leader the world needs. Harness our scale, our tech, our teams and our culture to realize your potential. Learn from the best, surround yourself with the curious, ask better questions to seek better answers. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

Make the next step and apply for this positiononline . Ref. No: SWI000PZ. For further information please contact our recruitment team (recruitment.switzerland@ey.com / +41 58 286 33 66).

* exception of EY contractors, interns and alumni.