Consultant - Design Thinking, Strategy, and - Montréal, Canada - EY

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Montréal, Canada

1 week ago

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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.

The opportunity

As an Assistant Director, you will join EY Canada's wavespace and innovation team where you will have the opportunity to work with some of our most forward-thinking clients to help them navigate the waves of the Transformation Age.

Our wavespace methodology is based on a design thinking approach to help our clients generate new possibilities, find answers faster and align people for decision-making.

Through our global wavespace network we draw on expertise from across the world to deliver exceptional and insightful experiences.

Learn more about EY wavespace here: wavespace | EY Canada

Your key responsibilities

Working with EY account teams and our clients to help identify and articulate clear areas of focus for innovation and transformation where our wavespace capability can help build meaningful outcomes
Leading endtoend wavespace journeys where you will:
Drive discovery phases to ensure an in depth understanding of clients' current situation and future vision through interviews and/or review of strategic plans.
Design, prepare and execute immersive innovation sessions where you will:
Work with the client to co-design the approach for the session
Identify and bring internal and/or external thought leaders, case studies and examples to inspire new perspectives
Ensure that relevant insights from client discovery phase are shared
Facilitate designthinking based ideation and prioritization sessions to draw out innovative, stakeholdercentric, valuegenerating opportunities
Build alignment across stakeholders and develop roadmaps and action plans that everyone agrees to
Leverage your creative ingenuity and our digital collaboration technologies to create exceptional and unique immersive experiences with our clients
Collaborate with EY account teams to deliver insightful briefings from the wavespace journeys to support further engagement opportunities
In addition to leading wavespace journeys with our clients, you will also help drive our EY Canada Innovation program by:
Working with the Innovation Lead and executive sponsors to design, launch and execute challenge-based innovation campaigns across EY Canada to identify and prioritize new ideas to better serve our clients
Facilitating design sprints with idea teams and other stakeholders to help bring ideas from seed concept to business plan
Orchestrating client involvement in relevant idea generation, idea development and/or idea evaluation activities
Helping to manage a portfolio of innovation initiatives and tracking associated progress metrics

In general, you will be expected to:

Demonstrate excellent communication skills, ability to integrate into new teams and rapidly establish credibility with clients and EY executives
Deliver differentiating client experiences, devise practical approaches to solving complex problems and drive alignment towards insightful solutions.
Be well versed in digital trends and disruption affecting our clients' business landscape.
Have strong project management skills, be delivery focused / detail oriented and demonstrate confidence in managing executive stakeholders with potentially differing perspectives
Promote collaboration and elevate conversations to new heights
Deliver exceptional and highquality outcomes that bring new value to our clients
Coach others as necessary to create highperforming delivery teams for each client wavespace journey
Support account teams as necessary in any follow up client pursuits

Skills and attributes for success

Exceptional executive presence
Executive level meeting management and facilitation skills
Familiarity with digital trends affecting the business landscape and key issues / opportunities facing major industries
Cultural/political awareness and strong EQ

To qualify for the role you should have:

4-8 years of management consulting or equivalent business transformation or strategy experience
Demonstrated project management skills
Expertise in design thinking tools and methods
Prior experience in business process redesign and/or operating model definition is considered a plus

Ideally, you'll also have

MBA or equivalent Master's degree
Bilingual in English and French

What we look for

Aside from the world-class professional services that we deliver to leading companies, what makes us unique is our fun, transparent, highly entrepreneurial and collaborative culture.

We work hard, play hard and love what we do together. Day in and day out, we know we can count on one another. If you think everything we've