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Business Consulting - Transformation Architecture, Energy & Utilities, Manager

Location: Dublin / Cork

Available for Visa Sponsorship: No

Business Area: Business Consulting

Contract Type: Full-Time - Permanent

The Team and the Opportunity

Ireland's energy and utilities sector is facing unprecedented change as it transforms to meet global sustainability challenges and ambitions set out by government. EY are supporting our clients to meet these challenges head on to plan for and deliver a resilient and sustainable future.

In Transformation Architecture, we help our clients see their future and define their purpose, and then we design, lead and deliver the end to end transformations to realise this ambition.

The Opportunity

In EY, our Energy and Utilities teams work with high profile clients across the sector on the island of Ireland to solve their most complex issues. This is the perfect time to join a growing team and to make your mark across a wide variety of markets, sectors and industries.

What We Look For

We are looking for talented and committed people to join our Energy & Utilities Team who are passionate about helping our clients to solve their toughest strategic problems and deliver insightful recommendations that are rigorous in their grounding, creative in their selection, distinct to each client, and practical in their ability to be taken to market.

Sector Experience (Beneficial)

• Background in Engineering, Technology, Mathematics or Science.
• Experience in identifying and designing policy and regulation to solve the challenges created by the energy transition faced by companies, governments and regulators.
• Knowledge and experience of business strategy and operations, with either a strong background and/or experience in the fields of ESG integration strategy, decarbonisation and energy transition, distribution system operations and grid management, circular economy, EHS and environmental management.

Areas of Focus (Desired Experience)

• Energy policy and regulation
• Energy market design and modelling
• Power system operational policy and applications

Your Key Responsibilities

• Be focused on delivery of challenging transformation projects, supporting clients through a number of transformation methodologies across our core sectors: Government and Public Sector, Health and Life Sciences, Consumer Products and Retail, and Energy and Assets.
• Demonstrate intellectual strength and flexibility to understand complex problems and rationalise these into a workable solution.
• Provide rigorous analysis, undertaking research and utilising relevant datasets to drive fact based decision making.
• Work within a team environment, committed to achieving solutions with the ability to work under pressure and balance multiple priorities.
• Bring a strong interest and commitment to developing and delivering leading edge solutions for clients.
• Demonstrate strong presentation and facilitation skills with an ability to succinctly and creatively present robust and evidence based messages.
• Develop and produce high quality output against project objectives and meet tight deadlines.

Skills and Attributes for Success

To qualify for the role you must have

• At least 5 years' experience with a consulting firm or in industry, ideally with experience in one or more of our core sectors.
• Strong academic record including a third level degree.
• Experience of client facing roles with evidence of stakeholder engagement and communication success.

Ideally you'll also have some experience of delivering elements of projects such as:

• Strategy implementation including the design and development of long term strategic roadmaps, implementation planning, critical success factors and development of best practice models to integrate strategy delivery.
• Conducting trend analyses to assess current market landscape, identifying growth levers, visioning and prioritising to develop a set of strategic choices, and guiding organisations through business model reinvention.
• Operating model design and development to include interim and target operating models, and facilitation of workshop based processes across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience in supporting the development of business and commercial cases for significant pieces of new investment or policy changes.

Benefits

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs: covering holidays, health and well being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around.
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you.

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits includes:

• Hybrid working
• Pension/discounted health insurance
• Web doctor
• Purchase of additional annual leave
• Free gym membership
• Travel pass
• Maternity & paternity leave
• Bike to work scheme
• Referral bonuses & recognition awards
• Tech MBA paid by EY

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest performing teams maximise the power of different perspectives and backgrounds.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.