Senior Manager - Business Transformation, Business Consulting

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. 

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi

With your contribution and my contribution, together we will thrive.

Hei Oranga Iwi | The opportunity

Join EY's Health practice and help address New Zealand's most important health system challenges. As a Senior Manager in Business Transformation, you will play a senior leadership role in shaping and delivering complex transformation programmes across the health sector. You will work alongside senior health leaders, clinicians, operational leaders and government stakeholders to address strategic and operational challenges and deliver practical transformation initiatives that improve health service performance, workforce sustainability, patient experience and health outcomes.

You will build trusted senior client relationships, lead complex engagements and multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to the continued growth and development of EY's Health practice.

This role is based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington).

Ko Tō Rourou | Your key responsibilities

• Lead complex health-sector engagements and transformation programmes from strategy and scoping through to mobilisation, analysis, recommendations and implementation, maintaining high-quality delivery and outcomes.
• Provide strategic advice to senior health leaders, bringing together clinical, operational, financial and organisational perspectives to address complex system and service challenges.
• Lead multiple workstreams and engagements, managing scope, quality, commercial performance, risks, dependencies, timelines and resources while applying sound judgement to resolve complex delivery issues.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior executives, health leaders, clinicians, government stakeholders and delivery partners, influencing decision-making and creating alignment across diverse perspectives.
• Translate complex evidence and analysis into clear strategic recommendations, executive-level advice and practical transformation plans that improve health services, performance and outcomes.
• Drive the growth of EY's Health practice by identifying and developing client opportunities, shaping solutions, leading proposals and bringing together capabilities from across EY to respond to clients' needs.
• Lead, coach and develop high-performing multidisciplinary teams, providing clear direction and creating opportunities for Managers, Senior Consultants and Consultants to grow.
• Contribute to EY's market presence and thought leadership in the health sector, bringing fresh perspectives and supporting the continued development of our health transformation capabilities.

Ngā Pūkenga | Skills and attributes for success

Ideally, you'll bring the capabilities below, but don't worry if you don't tick every box. We're interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

• Significant experience working in or advising the New Zealand health sector, ideally across areas such as strategy and planning, service and operating model design, operational performance improvement, large-scale transformation and digitally enabled healthcare.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex health transformation programmes and engagements, with the ability to provide strategic direction and successfully deliver outcomes in complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong commercial and strategic capability, with experience identifying client needs, shaping opportunities, developing compelling proposals and contributing to business and practice growth.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior executives, health leaders, clinicians and other key stakeholders.
• Strong structured problem-solving and analytical capability, with the ability to bring together complex evidence and translate it into clear, practical and decision-focused strategic advice.
• Demonstrated senior people leadership, including leading multidisciplinary teams, coaching and developing others, managing competing priorities and fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Understanding of digital and data-enabled healthcare, including emerging technologies and AI, and the ability to identify how these capabilities can be applied responsibly to improve health services, decision-making and outcomes.

Ko Taku Rourou | What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences www.ey.com/nz/careerdevelopment
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.

• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally www.ey.com/nz/benefits    

• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

Inclusiveness is core to who we are and how we work together, driving value for our people and for our business. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting, so if you have questions before or during your application, we welcome you to get in touch at [email protected] or +64 9 300 7044 (option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.

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