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Job Description
Role: Manager, Alliance Driver, Risk Assurance Services
Location: Guernsey or Jersey
Line of Service: Advisory
Grade: Manager
Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5
PwC Channel Islands Overview
PwC is a highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other
assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. The Channel Islands
firm employs 600+ staff in offices across Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney and is part of an
international network of 151 PwC firms employing over 364,000 staff.
Job Summary:
As part of the Risk Assurance Team, you will drive the Microsoft Alliance strategy for our Firm.
As a manager you will supervise and develop teams, manage client accounts, and facilitate the
successful execution of strategic initiatives while maintaining quality standards.
Those in Alliance at PwC will be responsible for establishing partnerships with companies to
better serve our client’s needs. You will build relationships to complement PwC’s strategy
through execution capabilities that allow PwC to deliver multi competency programmes and
solve client’s most critical business issues. Working in this area, you will develop and execute
the strategy and business plan, focus on market penetration and revenue growth, and identify
opportunities for solution development and industry alignment. You will also build relationships
with key Alliance executives, identify synergies between the technology and the Firm and
collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
We are seeking an experienced Manager to join our Risk Assurance Services practice to be the
focal point for our key technology Alliance relationships.
Responsibilities include:
• Manage client accounts to confirm alignment with strategic initiatives.
• Drive the execution of exceptional deliverables across projects.
• Identify and implement unique propositions for the Microsoft Alliance.
• Foster collaboration and communication within the Alliance team.
• Confirm adherence to professional standards and quality benchmarks.
• Analyse market trends to inform strategic direction and pipeline development.
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Direct Reports:
● This role reports to:
○ Senior Manager, Director/s
● Reporting to this role:
○ Associate
○ Senior Associate
Qualifications & Certifications:
• Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s degree preferred
Certification(s) Preferred:
• MBA, Chartered Institute of Marketing, MSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science
Skills & Experience Required:
Essential skills:
• 5 year(s) of Partner & Alliance Management, relationship management experience with
a track record of driving demand generation and driving successful programs.
• You excel in relationship management, collaboration and in building and nurturing
strategic partnerships.
• You have excellent communication skills – both oral (for interviews/meetings,
presentations) and written (for designing and writing engaging reports which
communicate recommendations and actions succinctly and clearly convey the message
in a way which is appropriate for the audience and rooted in the client’s needs).
• You have a keen eye for detail and strong focus on encouraging quality work by all team
members, and a constructive approach to developing and mentoring colleagues with
those goals in mind.
• You have experience helping client’s effect substantial and complex business change,
and experience of assuring or enabling change at scale is desirable.
• You have experience providing expert strategy, risk and technical advice, guidance and
support on technology solutions, both in business-as-usual and for live and planned
projects within our clients’ business.
Travel Requirements:
Limited travel will be required in this role (up to 25%).
The skills we look for in our people:
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our
business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These
skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional.
The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and
Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire,
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Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion,
Build and Deliver.
Diversity:
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse
backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest
talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a
culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating
value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business. https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm.