The Opportunity
The Senior Commercial Architect role is a key position in EYโs commercial transformation. This role is designed to improve customer engagement through tailored pursuit support, encourage activation and adoption of practitioner selfโhelp tools, and development of thought leadership. You will drive consistent pricing and commercial strategies for the largest, highest risk and most complex strategic pursuits aligned with the expected value of our services, resulting in accelerated revenue growth and margin expansion.
Your key responsibilities
- Leadership and Oversight: Provide leadership, oversight, and accountability from qualification to close across all pricing, financial, and commercial aspects of risk and strategic pursuits. This includes the monetization approach and associated commercial terms and conditions.
- Building Relationships: Build trustโbased relationships and influence decisionโmaking across internal and client stakeholders, contributing to positive outcomes that unlock client value and enhance EY revenue and margin.
- Shaping Opportunities: Shape opportunities by integrating client and competitor intelligence, value estimates, and innovative commercial structures to create compelling proposals that align with the clientโs willingness to pay.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with solution architects and domain experts to align solution design to client response requirements, estimate the forecasted costโtoโserve, integrate costing guidance and standards, and document assumptions concisely.
- Advanced Analytics: Leverage advanced analytics, dashboards, and tools to rapidly develop, test, and refine a pursuitโs pricing strategy, positioning, and offer design.
- Risk Management: Identify, communicate, and manage competitive and commercial risks through proactive collaboration with various stakeholders.
Skills and attributes for success
- Economic Understanding: Deep understanding of macro and microeconomic environments and trends that affect current and potential EY client industries and businesses.
- Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in designing, modeling, shaping, and structuring transformational consulting, managed services, coโsource, joint venture, and alliance business models.
- Pricing Strategies: Experience with various pricing strategies applicable to professional services, including costโ, client valueโ, client willingnessโtoโpayโ, and competitionโdriven assessments.
- Value Estimation: Knowledge of economic value estimation modeling, including inherent and relative value assessment.
- Client Decision Making: Understanding of the client decisionโmaking process and how value journeys and value tables can provide insight into a clientโs willingness to pay.
- Behavioral Economics: Familiarity with key behavioral economic insights such as prospect theory, loss aversion, anchoring and adjustment, and choice architecture.
Ideally, youโll also have
- Advanced degree (Masters in Business or equivalent) with 10+ years of experience in professional services, strategy consulting, investment banking, financial planning & analysis, corporate development, SaaS/cloud commercialization, or pricing.
- Expert proficiency in financial modeling, accounting, budgeting, and associated metrics.
What we look for
- Trusted Strategic Advisor: Build trust and credibility by proactively providing forwardโthinking insights and guidance.
- Gold Standard Champion: Execute EYโs โgold standardโ pursuit process with discipline and expertise to improve consistency and use of leading practices in EYโs approach to winning.
- WinโWin Advocate: Drive internal and external clients towards compelling and sustainable results for both the client and EY.
- Creativity and Innovation Driver: Inspire and challenge teams to differentiate EY through innovative strategies and deliverables that compel our clients to choose EY.
What we offer you
At EY, weโll develop you with futureโfocused skills and equip you with worldโclass experiences. Weโll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.
- We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where youโll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $181,800 to $350,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $218,200 to $397,700. 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, youโll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. Youโll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional wellโbeing.
EY accepts applications for this position on an onโgoing basis.
Mandatory Statements
EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1โ800โEYโHELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EYโs Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com.