EY Private Global Entrepreneurship Operations & Enablement Manager at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

The responsibilities of the role include supporting the Entrepreneurship team execute on projects, priorities and action plans to recognize, connect and engage with entrepreneurs in our global ecosystem, and collaborate across our collective entrepreneurial programs including EY Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY), EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year (WEOY), Entrepreneurial Winning Women (EWW), Ripples Impact Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs Access Network (EAN), Women Athletes Business Network (WABN) and Young Presidents Organization (YPO). The role also includes building relationships with entrepreneurs, working with Global Leaders on entrepreneurship programs and the transformation, budget planning, strategy, and future vision around best practices for an integrated entrepreneurship platform. 

This is a varied role in a busy team and requires someone with excellent interpersonal skills who is confident, robust and able to succeed working under pressure. The role will involve working collaboratively with various stakeholders in the firm and closely with the EY Private leadership team as required. The candidate will also have exposure and direct access to our most valuable entrepreneurship Alumni.

Your key responsibilities
The role is primarily focused on supporting EY Entrepreneurship operations to ensure that projects run efficiently and effectively. Experience in project management/ planning/execution is key to this role, as is the ability to build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders to ensure business alignment and risk mitigation. The key responsibilities include: 

• Understands and can clearly articulate and amplify the EY Entrepreneurship value proposition
• Support the Entrepreneurship strategy and initiatives – measure and support their implementation, tracking and success through reporting.
• Project Management of entrepreneurship initiatives activities including stakeholder management, managing deadlines, meeting minutes, status updates, etc.
• Responsible for managing effective and streamlined communication solutions/technologies (i.e. the Entrepreneurship SharePoint and Microsoft Teams sites) and collaborating with key stakeholders to collate, cascade and post content, and be proactive in managing and updating these channels
• Embed DE&I into the ongoing operations and processes for Entrepreneurship to support an inclusive culture
• Build a strong network and own relationships with key stakeholders to drive resourcing and support execution and delivery of strategy 
• Collaborate with the firm’s and program’s key stakeholders (GCO, Global Procurement, Independence, Global IT etc.) to drive processes, guidance/policy and ensure independence 
• Team with the EY Private Global Knowledge Leader to produce reports on market insights, trends, key alliances/competitors to support the development and progression of the Entrepreneurship strategy
• Support the technology and data transformation agenda; including integration and collation of data for each program, as well as onboarding the right technology and tools for these programs to operate as a unified program. 
• Provide budget support liaising with project leads, accounts team and leadership
• Supports WEOY judging workstream, owns judging logistics and responsible for the timely delivery of cohesive and well written judging materials 
• Provides support to the Entrepreneurship Leader on significant meetings, projects and ad-hoc matters as required

Skills and attributes for success
To qualify for the role you must have

• Minimum of 7-10 years’ work experience
• Bachelors/University degree or equivalent work experience 
• The ability to set priorities, develop and execute coordinated programs of work and prescribe the processes needed to achieve the required objectives. 
• A logical thinker with strong analytical skills who can develop and evaluate innovative solutions before taking or recommending actions.
• The ability to develop strong relationships with, and be capable of influencing, certain key stakeholders such as the Global EOY Network, Global Independence, GCO, GDS, Global IT, BMC and Knowledge.  Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, and be capable of gaining strategic buy-in on matters that will have a lasting impact on the Firm
• Exceptional project management skills to lead multiple workstreams across borders, industries, clients, functions and service lines

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Good understanding of the firm’s Service Lines, Go-to-market strategy and our external market 
• Strategic thinking skills, with the ability to apply areas of knowledge to extrapolate content for market use
• Strong organizational skills to operate in a fast-paced environment
• Detail-oriented with change management experience
• Ability to work independently, balanced with the ability to work in a diverse and global team
• Ability to thrive with ambiguity and drive the achievement of organizational objectives in an environment of constant change 
• A global and agile mindset; curious to work and collaborate effectively in a cross border, multi-national, virtual environment
• A passion for DE&I and a drive to build a better and more equitable world for everyone