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The opportunity
Strategy & Value Creation is EY’s executive strategy practice. The EY-Parthenon brand is the home of our fast-growing global strategy capability. We advise corporate and private equity clients on strategic and on strategic, commercial, operational, and investment-related decisions that drive long-term value creation. Areas of our work include:
- Corporate and BU strategy
- Strategy assessment
- Market entry strategy and chance sizing
- Product and business unit strategy development
- Divestment options analysis
- Purpose-led strategy and long-term value
- Business model reinvention
- Portfolio strategy
- Digital & AI strategy and innovation
- Go-to-market strategy
- Strategic cost evaluation
- Commercial due diligence
- Turnaround, operational restructuring and rapid performance improvement
- Working capital advisory
- Capital allocation and investment strategy
You’ll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of global and local corporate, government, and private equity clients. You’ll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement. The Canadian Practice is closely integrated with the Americas EY Parthenon organization. We bring the power of our deep global and local insights, client relationships and an informed, current perspective.
This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within our organization.
Your key responsibilities
We are looking for a candidate to join as Senior Manager in the Canadian Strategy & Value Creation team. The Senior Manager will play an integral role that involves working closely with other members of the rapidly growing Americas Strategy & Value Creation team to deliver a variety of engagements and help develop our practice further.
We are looking for candidates who can:
- Lead strategic engagements for clients across our service portfolio, proactively manage complexity and lead the engagement planning and execution with seeking alignment from partners
- Lead and mentor high-performing teams across multiple engagements, ensuring the delivery of exceptional client outcomes and measurable impact
- Drive business development efforts by identifying new opportunities, cultivating long-term client relationships, and expanding internal and external networks
- Build trusted advisor relationships with senior client executives, support client relationship management while executing projects, delivering a high degree of client satisfaction with the engagement process
- Advise executive teams on strategic planning and priorities, growth opportunities and long-term value creation initiatives
- Structure engagements around hypotheses, and develop and execute project plan to validate hypotheses
- Assess growth opportunities, competitive positioning, market dynamics, and other strategic topics through rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis or market, transactional and operational data
- Analyze industry trends and disruptions, customer behavior, and emerging market opportunities to identify strategic implications for clients
- Support commercial and investment due diligence engagements through market assessments, competitive analysis, and financial evaluation
- Develop strategic recommendations related to business growth, operating model transformation, product innovation, distribution effectiveness, and value creation
- Translate recommendations into measurable improvements with explicit links to business outcomes
- Provide effective apprenticeship and coaching to junior team members, fostering career development, knowledge sharing, and a culture of continuous learning
- Foster an inclusive culture throughout the team and within engagements and proactively build a personal network within the firm
- Support internal practice initiatives such as Learning, Operations, Resourcing, Recruitment
- Integrate AI into day-to-day delivery while validating outputs, challenging assumptions, and maintaining accountability for quality
- Effectively and responsibly use AI to accelerate analysis, scenario generation, and insight development while maintaining clear linkage to business outcomes
Ideal qualifications for this position include:
- Engineering, Finance or Commerce undergrad (MA/MBA is an asset)
- At least 8 years of work/leadership experience with demonstrated impact idea
📌 Senior Manager (Toronto)
🏢 EY
📍 Toronto