About SAT and EY Parthenon

EY Strategy and Transactions teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. Whether they are a corporate, private equity, government, sovereign wealth fund, private or family business, or educational institution client, we help with all their key strategy and transaction decisions.

EY-Parthenon is a unique, world-class strategy practice that delivers long-term value to our clients, our people and EY. As a sub-service line within Strategy and Transactions, EY Parthenon brings together professionals with diverse strategic capabilities and deep sector insights. We enable our professionals to lead from the front, unlock the full potential of strategy, transactions, and restructuring, and reshape work, paving the way for high value impact for our clients. EY-Parthenon plays a critical role in driving collaboration between subservice lines, within service lines and across the firm.

Senior Consultant - Consumer Products and Retail:

EY-Parthenon is a world-class strategy practice that delivers long-term value to our clients by bringing together professionals with diverse strategic capabilities and deep sector insights. We enable our professionals to lead from the front, unlock the full potential of strategy and paving the way for high value impact for our clients.

The role:

The client facing role will focus on assisting in sales and delivery of CPR solutions across strategy design, sales acceleration and cost transformation. He/She will assist in sales and delivery of these CPR solutions, build Thought Leadership and establish EY's leadership in the sector.

Your key responsibilities:

- You will be responsible for sales and engagement delivery for the India market.

- Client service delivery/execution

- Client stakeholder management at a CXO level

- Manage delivery quality, project resources (Consultant & below) and team utilization

- Design cutting edge solutions that unlocks value for clients across the value chain

- Lead the delivery / execution of high-quality deliverables and manage service quality, brand and client expectations

- Knowledge Management

- Contribute to knowledge development and management

- Design new client solutions to enable practise growth

- Demonstrate significant industry / solution expertise

- People Management

- Be a strong team player

- Build a strong team and be a strong role model, mentor and coach

- Assist in resolving people issues

- Support people development through guidance and feedback

- Take the lead in recruiting activities

- Ensure compliance to the firm's standards, processes and policies

- Contribute to the firm's initiatives in enhancing market leadership & growth, quality, people agenda and operational excellence

Skills and attributes for success:

- In-depth understanding of the economic and business environment

- Strong understanding of consumer industry across Sales & Marketing domains

- Professional network and networking skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Good leadership qualities

- Client relationship management and account management skills. Experience in handling mid to large-size accounts (if with relevant consulting experience)

- Program management, multi-tasking and time management skills

- Good experience in business development

- Excellent people management skills

- Sharp focus on quality delivery

- Ability to develop / customize solutions relevant to client

To qualify for the role you must have:

- MBA (from a premier institute) with a good academic background

- 2-4 years of relevant post MBA experience of working in FMCG, or relevant Consulting background

Industry experience:

- FMCG or relevant Consulting experience

Domain expertise:

- Sales and/or Sales Development

- Supply chain planning/Procurement/Logistics

- Sales Force effectiveness, Business development, Market assessments

- Market assessment, Strategy and Business planning

Ideally, you'll also have:

- Willingness to travel

- Flexible to adopt to a demanding lifestyle

- Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations

- High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment

- Maturity and ability to handle pressure

What we look for:

We're looking for people that are passionate and at the top of their game, who would like to continue to grow their subject matter expertise and help others around them achieve their potential. If you have a passion for assisting businesses achieve their full potential and working with some of the highest performing teams, this role might very well be for you.