Job description
Connect to your Industry
Clients and Industries (C&I) is 300-strong enabling function of varied disciplines, with a common purpose of enhancing Deloitte’s reputation, relationships and revenue in the market.
The Client Relationship Executive (CRE) plays a pivotal role, working alongside the Lead Client Service Partner (LCSP) to bring the best of Deloitte to our clients. Our CREs focus on priority accounts which are often sophisticated and complex in their nature, industry-leading or ‘house-hold’ names, and are a mix of regional, national and global in their footprint. CREs develop strength and depth in relationships, and partner with the client and account team to leverage opportunities for growth.
We’re excited to offer an opportunity within our Global Public Services Defence sector. This role is open to both internal and external candidates looking for an exciting, challenging, commercial, autonomous, relationship-focused, and client-centric role.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
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.
Connect to your opportunity
- Regularly interacting and relationship building with client stakeholders and influencers/buyers; identifying and offering insights, thought leadership and points of view to the client to maintain and further develop client relationships.
- Work with the account team to develop and deliver against the strategic ambition, understanding the needs of the client(s), industry trends, and the full suite of offerings and ways in which we serve our clients.
- Leading knowledge sharing amongst the team and providing team coaching on client challenges and trends; bringing the account team together to best serve our client(s)
- Leveraging stakeholder relationships to drive action and be the focal point of communications and activity on the account
- Reviewing and sharing information on client buying and the competitor landscape; maintaining financial oversight and reporting for the account; supporting in the development of an annual business plan and building knowledge of alternative pricing and delivery models.
- Appropriately and effectively monitor the risk profile on the account(s) to which you are aligned and ensure effective compliance with contractual obligations
- Sharing best practice and enhancing the CRE community and contributing to the enhancement of the industry and sector community by sharing client insights; you represent the ‘voice of the client’ and is imperative we understand and reflect that in all that we do.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
Essential
- Confident in leading teams and collaborating with busy professionals to deliver results with excellent stakeholder management skills
- Excellent project management skills, with a strong track record of executing projects and initiatives to tight deadlines
- Strong emotional intelligence, demonstrable success in building rapport and credibility with a range of people at different levels of seniority
- Quantitatively literate, confident with financial reporting and seeing the ‘story behind the numbers’ and identifying trends
- Proficient in Office 365 tools including leveraging intelligence through CRM systems
- Experienced in working within or have a good understanding of our UK Defence industry
- Educated to degree level, or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience in a client relationship management role
- Professional services experience or knowledge of large, global, matrix style partnership organisations
- Project management qualifications
- Strategy & Operations or Engagement experience
- Knowledge of procurement, pricing and contracting
Connect to your service line - Enabling Functions
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
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“Since joining Deloitte I have really flourished as an individual and improved both my personal and professional skills. My team encourages me to be the best version of myself I can be, and to continue to develop my skills”
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide
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 .
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the London or Regional teams. You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your Client Relationship Programme colleagues within Clients & Industries in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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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.
Connect to your next step
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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