Enabling Area – Assistant Manger – Strategy & Innovation

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential

Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

The Team

In today’s global milieu and evolving business landscape, innovation is a pivotal lever. Companies seek exponential innovation to have the power to shape potential disruptors for their strategic advantage and stay ahead of the curve. Our products and platforms, combined with the passion to innovate, help unravel a plethora of possibilities and simplify business complexities.

Our India Innovation program primarily focuses on bringing innovation to India business lines and other internal functions. We believe that transformational technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, and data analytics have the potential to disrupt our business solutions. Adopting these new-age technologies will help us serve clients better.

As a AM with innovation, the world will be your oyster – and you will have the opportunity at every steps to interact with Deloitte India leadership, various DI partners and colleagues from around the world

Important qualities/ skills required for the job

As a Assistant Manager in the Innovation team, you will be responsible for defining standards and executing tasks associated with managing projects. You will be:

• Working closely with the business teams to execute the firm’s innovation agenda while reporting to the Chief Innovation leader
• Facilitating engagements with project teams, management and stakeholders
• Creating detailed data insights, program reports and presentations for the leadership
• Ensuring consistent implementation of innovation methodology, tools, and reporting at country, regional & global level
• Facilitate internal functions in creation of business case for new solutions development
• Effectively managing multiple tasks and stakeholders of all levels by prioritizing urgency and importance
• Continuously building and strengthening relationships with business & internal stakeholders

Qualifications

• A Master’s degree in business administration/ Engineering from a reputed institute
• Must have 5+ years of experience with a good research background, specifically in innovation-related and technology research
• Strong analytical, complex problem-solving, conceptual skills, task prioritization, follow-up, tenacity, creativity and service orientation skills
• Sound understanding of technologies (architecture, cloud, tech stacks etc.)
• Ability to lead meetings and initiatives
• Ability to communicate effectively across written, verbal and presentation formats to a variety of audiences
• Ability to multi-task, work independently, and stay focused in a dynamic fast paced environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Word, Visio, and PowerPoint)
• Excellent people skills and ability to work with diverse teams of different skill sets and backgrounds
• Negotiation, critical thinking and matured business decision making skills with high emotional intelligence
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and a team player with a positive attitude and willingness to initiate
• Strong multi-tasking skills and a collaborative working style
• Must have very strong attention to detail and the ability and willingness to learn quickly about new subjects

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte India, we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

In addition to living our purpose, DM across our organization:

• Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent
• Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on the track
• Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills
• Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business

How you’ll grow

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center.

Benefits

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.

Our purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: To make an impact that matters.

Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte's impact on the world

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