Director, Strategic Cost Transformation NEW

Deloitte LLP
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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, Retail, LSHC and ER&I industries

As a Cost Transformation Director within our Value Creation Services team, you will focus on our spearhead solutions that help our clients shape their performance ambitions, identify, and quantify efficiency & effectiveness opportunities, and help them transition into planning. The ultimate goal is step changing their business models and operating models to enhance margin performance.

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Connect to your opportunity As a Director in our team, you will work closely alongside Partners and play a leading role in influencing and shaping the strategic direction and development of the team.

This includes:

• Lead diverse teams, with an inclusive culture where people are recognised for their delivery of client work
• Lead 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, Retail, LSHC and ER&I industries. Prior Consulting experience in these industries is also desirable
• Demonstrate a track record in cost diagnostic work across multiple major Consumer, Retail, LSHC and ER&I 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/TMT business e.g. Sales and marketing, Supply Chain, operations and/or in multiple functions such as HR, Finance, IT etc.
• Strong understanding of cost principles and levers to reduce P&L cost across COGS, SG&A and R&D including productivity (doing more with less)
• Strong 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 leading teams and clients through diagnostic phases of work – baselining, ambition setting, analysing and manipulating large cost data sets to identify cost saving opportunities, and / or developing large scale financial business cases with substantiation
• Track record in driving consulting sales and associated pipeline over multiple years that includes initiating conversations, driving ideas forward, developing proposals and leading pitches
• Track record in leading engagements that have shifted cost hypotheses into validated initiatives that are ready for execution – driving alignment across management in planning but also helping them stretch how fast they can shift into implementation
• Experience in applying a differentiated approach to help clients think bigger and more constrained about their opportunity and help management align on an ambition that stretches their thinking
• Ability to rapidly understand complex business challenges, comfortable working with overseeing large amount of data inputs to build a grasp of the client’s operating model and processes and draw conclusions in a logical manner
• Proven experience leading effective teams and projects on time and to budget, including proactive programme risk and issue management
• Strong communicator with the ability to tailor messaging and a clear story to the audience, ability to organise insights into a logical flow on recommendations from diagnostic work
• Good working knowledge of tools that support project management, management interviews, data analysis, different presentation formats
• Track record of building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels within an organisation, guiding senior stakeholders through the engagement
• Proven experience in successfully developing talent with clear followership in an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Significant experience within Consumer, Retail, LSHC and ER&I Consulting at Director Level or in Industry where you have held Transformation/Strategy/Cost Transformation roles at a senior level
• Degree in Accounting / Finance / Business, or equivalent
• Experience working in Finance functions, Finance Transformation teams or Business Development related roles within the business
• Advanced level degree, or equivalent, including Master of Business Administration (MBA) (or equivalent)
• Successfully leading responses to client or vendor bids and proposals
• Line management responsibility

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