Commercial Architect, Assistant Director

2 days ago


St Louis, United States Ernst and Young Full time

EY focuses on high ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities. At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Strategic Pricing & Insights Group: Commercial Architect Job Description

Our Markets and Business Development function brings together business, sector, and account knowledge along with EY competencies and solutions to meet unique client needs. The Markets and Business Development organization shapes and drives an integrated growth strategy across EY’s largest accounts, industry sectors, solutions and services, while demonstrating and achieving market leadership through a client-centric culture.

The Opportunity

As a Commercial Architect within the Strategic Pricing & Insights Group and the broader Pursuits & Commercial Excellence function, you will hold primary responsibility for providing financial, commercial, and competitive positioning leadership and support for EY’s largest, most complex, most strategic opportunities. You will help shape, negotiate, and close new business opportunities by drawing together competitive intelligence (sales, price, solution, and commercial), client business and solution requirements, internal EY cost to serve estimates, commercial model structures, pricing methodologies, and negotiation strategies. You will guide teams in developing a competitive and compelling business case for our clients and EY through the design and execution of the competitive pricing strategy while establishing the EY cost to serve, seeking opportunities to maximize margins, mitigate risks, and articulate the differentiated value of EY’s offer.

Your key responsibilities
  1. Develop, test and refine the offer design including the pricing and commercial strategy to mitigate competitive risk and increase win odds.
  2. Balance EY’s proposed price points and value articulation against market benchmarks and expected competitor positioning.
  3. Incorporate market benchmarks and competitive intelligence to increase differentiation, test client’s willingness to pay and increase value for the client and EY.
  4. Design and execute the commercial structure aligned to the client’s value metric(s) ensuring a fair return for EY’s risk profile.
  5. Support the development of client-facing financial, business, and commercial documents, advise on client negotiations, and articulate the deal construct and value proposition in support of internal approval processes.
Skills and attributes for success

Thriving in a matrixed organization is essential, balancing the needs of the client against business initiatives and goals. Possessing natural coaching skills, you will inspire others with your insights and ability to create and drive differentiated value propositions in the market. You will be a trusted advisor to the Deal Lead and the broader pursuit team, acting in a consultative manner to deliver exceptional service and quality. You will be the catalyst that pulls stakeholders together to drive strategic initiatives and increase win odds while positioning profitable growth.

To qualify for the role, you must have
  1. 6+ years of experience in a professional services environment preferably in a function like pricing and commercials, strategy consulting, solution architecture or commercial and contract management.
  2. Expert proficiency in financial modelling, accounting, budgeting, and associated metrics.
  3. Proven track record designing, modelling and structuring deals utilizing various pricing strategies/commercial structures across consulting and managed services.
  4. Strong pursuit management, relationship management, executive presence and influencing skills.
  5. Comfortable operating with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
  6. Effective oral and written communications.
  7. A University/Bachelor’s Degree.
Ideally, you’ll also have
  1. An advanced degree or MBA.
  2. Professional accounting or financial certification.
  3. Experience conducting market research.
  4. Ability to travel.
What we look for

Our successful Commercial Architects deliver exceptional client service by building insights ahead of the market to create innovative and compelling commercial structures that position teams to win more, win bigger, win better. Additionally, an entrepreneurial mindset combined with a suite of advanced analytics and accelerators positions our Commercial Architects to drive positive, lasting change far beyond custom pursuit support.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The salary range for this job in most geographic locations in the US is $121,500 to $227,200. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $145,800 to $258,100. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances.

Continuous learning

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

Success as defined by you

We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

Transformative leadership

We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

Diverse and inclusive culture

You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

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