Senior Consultant, Infrastructure (multiple UK locations)

Job description

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

 

Infrastructure will play a critical role in shaping the UK’s social and economic recovery from the pandemic, and is seen as a core enabler of the government’s ‘Build Back Better’ strategy. Building a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UK’s most important projects.

 

The opportunity

 

Infrastructure is a core sector for EY, housed within our Government & Infrastructure market. Our Infrastructure Team are focused on 2 core areas across:

 

·  The initiation and successful delivery of transformation programmes, tackling our clients’ most pressing and complex initatives
·  The involvement in early stage, large scale infrastructure project development activities, as well as ongoing support, to drive more successful infrastructure project delivery

 

We are focused on growing our infrastructure programme focus and large scale transformation delivery across our wide range of clients within a variety of sectors, including Government, Transport, Power & Utilities, Oil & Gas and Telecommunications.

 

We are investing in Infrastructure in order to drive the right engagement across our core accounts, as well as looking to grow our overall presence across this sector and be involved in the design, development and delivery of significant programmes under the recently published National Infrastructure Strategy.

 

Joining Infrastructure in 2021 as a Senior Consultant gives the right candidate the opportunity to be involved in our exciting growth journey,  providing opportunities to deliver transformative work that is absolutely delivering on our social value and building a better working world commitments.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

·  Business analysis - evaluating business processes, gathering requirements, identifying areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions to help enable the successful delivery of Infrastructure transformation projects
·  Business case development using the Green Book 5 case model
·  Development of reports, documents and presentations to assist clients and senior members of the EY team with decision making
·  Coordination and facilitation of client meetings and workshops
·  Programme and project management delivery, within both traditional and agile project environments
·  Building trusted client relationships that contribute to enhancing EY’s brand and reputation
·  Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff
·  Contribute to business development, including development of proposals in response to tender opportunities
·  Contribute to internal practice development, around the Infrastructure market in general but also within specific competency / capability focus area (e.g. Transformation, Finance, Supply Chain, Technology)
·  Contribute to EY’s positioning across the UK (and global) infrastructure market, through an active social media presence, and thought leadership development

 

Skills and attributes for success

 

·  An understanding of, and interest in, the UK Infrastructure sector
·  Experience working in industry, government or a management consultancy environment
·  Ability to analyse data and deliver insightful, practical solutions
·  Experience of communicating with senior clients and / or stakeholders
·  Skills and experience in Programme and Project Management
·  Presentation & facilitation skills
·  Understanding of both traditional management techniques and agile ways of working
·  The confidence to build lasting relationships and influence senior colleagues and clients in leading roles
·  Proven ability to adapt and learn in an innovative environment

 

To qualify for the role, you must have

 

·  Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience
·  2+ years experience within the Infrastructure sector, with specific experience in one or more sub-capabilities (e.g. supply chain / target operating model / transformation definition & delivery / finance / solution architecture / data & analytics, etc.)
·  High standard of written communication and English language fluency
·  Willingness to travel and work across the UK and potentially overseas 

 

Ideally, you’ll also have

 

·  Knowledge and experience working on large scale digitally enabled infrastructure programmes
·  An ability to adapt and learn in an innovative environment
·  Competencyin additional major languages desired

 

What we offer

 

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

 

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

 

·  Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
·  Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
·  Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
·  Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

 

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

 

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

 

Apply now.

 

Please note : Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

 

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