Job description
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Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious programmes undertaken to keep our country safe?
We are proud of the impact we have with our Defence & Security clients, the strength of our relationships, and the variety of our skills and expertise that we bring to help them achieve their mission.
We’re growing our teams across all of Consulting. If you are cleared to SC or DV level, or willing and eligible to obtain this, and want to grow your career in this sector, we are very keen to hear from you.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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Are you passionate about innovation and do you thrive on creating brand new business models and ventures? Our Ventures team, which incorporates the design-led innovation consultancy Doblin and Monitor Deloitte’s lean startup consulting team, is looking for talented venture strategists who are keen to do just that for some of the largest companies in the world.
We help organisations transform the way they innovate & grow by focusing innovation efforts in the right place; designing, building & launching new value propositions; and becoming faster & more effective innovators.
Our growing London team offers the opportunity to embed lean start-up innovation into client organisations – teaching them to adopt the tools and techniques from the start-up and VC world in order to test, validate and build new ideas as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.
As a Venture Strategist you will:
- Use the tools and techniques of the lean startup methodology to problem solve
- Take a hypotheses-led approach to innovation and venturing
- Balance desirability, viability and feasibility when appraising a concept
- Advocate gathering real-world feedback and using evidence-based decision making
- Understand the importance of innovation operating model design with respect to effectively managing and governing the innovation process
- Coach our clients to ensure they are comfortable in the lean startup methodology
- Love working in multidisciplinary teams
- Blend a grounding in the fundamentals of strategy with a highly practical way of working
Your responsibilities will include:
- Inspiring potential clients about the benefits of adopting lean start-up innovation
- Identifying business development opportunities, develop proposals and build distinctive, enduring, client relationships
- Leading projects to help our clients test, validate and build new ventures and business models. This involves:
- Development of MVPs to test market response and gather real- world evidence
- Commercial evaluation of ideas, including market and competitor analysis
- Engaging with multidisciplinary teams to develop and test technical POCs
- Leading projects to set up client organisations to sustainably innovate. This involves:
- Running workshops with client stakeholders to understand their current innovation processes and blockers
- Designing and testing new end-to-end lean start-up processes in collaboration with the client
- Training people from across the organisation to adopt the lean start-up methodology
- Contributing to the ongoing evolution of our methodology and approach to innovation and venturing
- Mentoring and developing other team members to support the growth of the team
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All applicants must be willing and eligible to apply and obtain UK security clearance to Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level, if not holding an existing clearance.
Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate these characteristics:
- Experience in a Strategy Consulting or Innovation firm, including demonstrable experience leading client engagements in Defence & Security and/or the wider Public Sector
- A sense of inquisitiveness and a desire to challenge corporate norms
- An outstanding ability to coach and advise clients in new ways of working
- Extensive knowledge and experience of lean start-up innovation and related methodologies
- An ability to operate effectively with limited direction
- Adept at using the Microsoft Office suite
- The ability to work in dynamic, often ambiguous conditions, both individually and in a team
- Strong written and spoken communication skills
- Experience working at or with start-ups or corporate ventures
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Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
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“The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors.”
- Sophia, Consulting
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Location: The home office of this role is London
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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