Studio+ Innovation - Business Consulting - Senior Manager

EY•Denver, CO

1d•$150,400 - $390,500•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Manager in Design-led Innovation, you will lead clients through a design-driven innovation lifecycle to explore future-focused “what if?” questions about their business, sector, products and services. You will help expand horizons, identify competitive edges and define market opportunities through experimentation with tangible manifestations of questions and ideas, from lo-fi sketches to different kinds of prototypes. You will guide teams in evaluating possible directions and innovative value propositions from multiple perspectives, including user needs, business requirements and technology. You will also establish and advise on the culture, organization and repeatable processes needed to activate an innovation strategy. Lead engagement delivery across complex processes, solutions and/or projects. Maintain focus on quality and risk management while navigating operational and organizational dynamics. Provide leadership and direction up to and including Managers across multiple activities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required (4-year degree); master’s degree preferred.
Typically, no less than 5 - 7 years relevant experience.
Design leadership and executive alignment
Experience strategy creation
Facilitation
Innovation culture and capability development
Innovation framework design
Innovation lab set up
Innovation validation
Systems design
Venture design and incubation
Building and Managing Relationships
Client Trust and Value
Commercial Astuteness
Communicating With Impact
Complex Problem-Solving
Critical Thinking
Digital Fluency
Driving Outcomes
Hybrid Collaboration
Leading Teams
Learning Agility
Managing Change
Negotiation and Influencing
Sector Knowledge
Sustainability
Systems Thinking

Nice To Haves

Experience leading client engagements through planning, execution and closure.
Experience managing engagement economics, resource planning and budgets for whole engagements.
Experience leading teams, managing change, negotiating and influencing stakeholders, and applying sector knowledge.
Ability to exercise considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments while collaborating with senior management on objectives and assessing results over a longer-term perspective.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be accountable for program and project management and may be accountable for the budget, delivery and performance of complex processes, solutions and/or projects.
You will lead client engagements through planning, execution and closure, manage client relationships with daily external client interaction, and lead teams with broad visibility to achieve performance objectives.
You will be responsible for identifying sales and new opportunities, collaborating with PPMD to complete RFPs, managing engagement economics for the whole engagement, and developing the resource plan and budget for the whole engagement.
Travel is required regularly as needed by external clients.
Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Develop solutions to complex problems and recommend changes to policies.
Establish procedures that affect the immediate work area and possibly the business function within your area or department.
Guide clients through innovation lifecycles that frame strategic questions, explore future opportunities and define market potential.
Lead experimentation with sketches, prototypes and other tangible outputs to evaluate possible directions and value propositions.
Advise on innovation culture, organization, frameworks and repeatable processes needed to activate innovation strategy.
Provide direction and feedback to engagement team members to complete tasks.
Provide input to PPMDs for decisions related to performance evaluations and hiring or new team members.