EY - Senior Consultant - Consumer Products & Retail

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

- Ensure compliance to the firms standards, processes and policies

- Contribute to the firms 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, Retail, Consumer Internet or relevant Consulting background

- Industry experience : FMCG, Retail, Consumer Internet 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, youll 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