US Innovation – Senior Consultant, Innovation Strategy
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US Innovation – Senior Consultant, Innovation Strategy
If you are fascinated about how digital technology is transforming business, plan your next career move with Deloitte’s US Innovation team.
Deloitte’s breadth, depth, and scale, combined with our relentless passion for innovation create powerful opportunities to help our clients and our own organization stay ahead of change, deliver impact that matters, and transform complexity and disruption into lasting value.
Our Innovation team is already leveraging Artificial Intelligence, analytics and leading edge automation capabilities to transform how we serve clients and operate our business. Moreover, the team is also actively exploring nascent applications such as IoT, Blockchain and AR/VR.
Work You’ll Do:
The Senior Consultant will be part of the team who is developing the innovation strategy for the firm and digitizing the firm’s businesses. The Senior Consultant will also assist Deloitte’s various businesses – Consulting, Risk & Financial Advisory, Audit and Tax – with structuring and executing their individual innovation objectives.
Key activities include: identifying opportunities to leverage Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Automation to change the way we sell and deliver our services, facilitating the incubation and scaling of new client solutions, designing and managing programs to facilitate revenue growth from new businesses and/or efficiency improvements across Deloitte, driving collaboration and knowledge-sharing throughout Deloitte, and defining innovation-related branding/communication strategies.
Responsibilities:
The Senior Consultant will develop thinking and execute on one or more innovation projects or work-streams. This includes activities such as:
Executing and owning work-streams for innovation projects and programs with multiple stakeholders
Collaborating with teams across Deloitte businesses and functions
Developing detailed project/program execution plans and tracking against milestones
Developing and sharing points of view on new innovation approaches, technologies, and tools based on external research
Facilitating ideation/brainstorming sessions and collaboration workshops
Developing executive level communications/presentations
Designing and executing innovation programs around knowledge sharing
Developing high degree of trust with key internal client base
The Team
The US Innovation group supports Deloitte’s strategic innovation goals. The group focuses on sensing emerging trends; incubating breakthrough technologies and solutions; driving and orchestrating the firm’s digital transformation; and communicating to our people and the marketplace the vision and impact of the firm’s innovation and digital transformation efforts. The group also works with firm leaders to help set, shape, achieve – and then refresh - innovation goals.
The US Innovation group is unique in Deloitte. Its focus is to rapidly identify, shape, experiment and incubate new business opportunities that leverage leading edge technologies. We operate as a cross-between an applied R&D (emphasis on Development), venture capital investor and a start-up. All team members are respected and called upon for their creativity, insights and ability to make an impact, regardless of title or tenure. And most are challenged to work on multiple projects at one time. The work is intense, fast-moving and highly impactful; but most importantly fun and rewarding for those with passion for innovation.
Qualifications:
Professional with minimum 4 years of relevant experience
MBA/MS or other relevant advanced degree(s) from Top tier program
Prior experience in innovation/ strategy development for top tier companies and/or with top strategy consultancy
Thinks strategically, handles ambiguity, and interacts with senior business leaders
Critical and creative thinking as well as ability to execute on the details
Outstanding analytical, research and presentation skills; exceptionally strong PowerPoint skills
Familiarity and fluency with strategic and innovation frameworks and conceptual constructs; strong interest in strategy and innovation
Track record of delivering results
Ability to seamlessly interact with business leaders and their project teams
Curiosity/interest in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Automation technologies
Curiosity/experience in UI/UX