Senior Manager – Advisory Growth & Strategic Accounts

Deloitte Africa's Engineering, AI & Data business is seeking an experienced and commercially driven Senior Manager – Advisory Growth & Strategic Accounts to support the continued growth of its Advisory practice. The role will be responsible for originating and developing strategic client opportunities across AI, data, cloud and technology-enabled transformation. Working closely with senior practice leadership, account teams and specialist capability leaders, the successful candidate will identify areas of client demand, develop senior executive relationships, shape compelling advisory propositions and convert opportunities into significant consulting and transformation engagements.

This is a senior market-facing role requiring a combination of commercial origination, strategic account development, consulting judgement, executive engagement and technology fluency.

The successful candidate will be expected to create opportunities proactively rather than rely predominantly on existing pipeline or formal procurement processes. They will play a central role in strengthening Deloitte's relationships across priority accounts and developing new areas of demand around emerging enterprise and technology priorities.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will combine the commercial intensity of a hunter with the judgement and credibility of a senior advisor.

They will be energised by creating opportunities, establishing new client relationships and developing markets rather than primarily managing established work.

They will be intellectually curious, commercially pragmatic and comfortable engaging across both business and technology.

Importantly, they will understand that successful origination in advisory is not simply about selling an existing solution. It requires the ability to recognise an unresolved enterprise problem, shape a distinctive point of view, mobilise the right expertise and convert that insight into a valuable client engagement.

Business Development and Origination

* Originate new advisory and transformation opportunities across priority accounts and target clients. * Identify emerging client issues, strategic priorities and investment themes capable of creating new demand. * Develop client-specific hypotheses and points of view to initiate senior executive conversations. * Establish relationships with new buyers, decision-makers and executive stakeholders. * Develop opportunities proactively, including where a defined client brief or formal procurement process does not yet exist. * Convert early-stage conversations into qualified consulting opportunities with clear client need, sponsorship and commercial potential. * Contribute materially to the development and maintenance of a strong and sustainable qualified pipeline.

Strategic Account Growth

* Work with senior account leaders to identify and pursue growth opportunities across strategic clients. * Develop a strong understanding of client strategies, investment priorities, organisational structures and key transformation agendas. * Identify whitespace across existing accounts and develop targeted plans to access new areas of the organisation. * Build and maintain senior relationships across business, technology and functional leadership. * Support the development of account-level growth strategies and opportunity roadmaps. * Identify opportunities to expand existing work into broader or longer-term client relationships. * Coordinate relevant Deloitte capabilities around the client's strategic priorities.

Opportunity and Proposition Development

* Translate complex and often ambiguous client challenges into clearly defined consulting opportunities. * Work with subject-matter specialists to develop differentiated propositions and engagement approaches. * Shape client value propositions, executive narratives and transformation hypotheses. * Support the development of engagement scope, commercial models and delivery approaches. * Ensure proposed solutions address the underlying client problem and clearly articulate expected business outcomes. * Identify opportunities to connect advisory engagements to broader transformation and implementation requirements.

Pursuit Leadership

* Lead and support strategically important pursuits from qualification through to conversion. * Develop pursuit strategies, win themes and stakeholder engagement plans. * Coordinate multidisciplinary pursuit teams across relevant business and technology capabilities. * Lead or contribute to executive presentations, workshops, proposals and commercial discussions. * Support senior leaders in preparing for critical client interactions. * Maintain momentum across pursuits and actively manage barriers to conversion. * Contribute to commercial negotiation and deal-shaping activities.

Candidates should typically have 10 years relevant professional experience, including significant experience in management consulting, technology advisory, professional services, enterprise technology, strategic account development or complex business-to-business transformation environments.

The successful candidate should demonstrate

* A strong track record of personally originating and developing new business opportunities. * Evidence of converting qualified pipeline into material professional-services, consulting or transformation revenue. * Experience developing and expanding senior client relationships. * Experience working with large enterprise or strategic accounts. * Strong understanding of complex enterprise buying environments and decision-making processes. * Experience shaping complex consulting, advisory or transformation opportunities. * Strong commercial judgement and understanding of professional-services economics. * Experience leading or supporting significant competitive pursuits. * Demonstrated ability to work across multidisciplinary teams. * Experience operating effectively with senior executives and senior internal stakeholders.

* Master's degree in Business, Commerce, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics or another relevant discipline. * A relevant postgraduate qualification such as an MBA or equivalent will be advantageous, but is not essential. * Relevant technology, consulting or industry certifications may be beneficial, but will not substitute for demonstrated commercial and client-development capability.

While not mandatory, candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas will be particularly attractive:

* Management consulting or technology advisory. * AI, data, cloud or digital transformation. * Building or scaling new consulting propositions or markets. * Developing strategic enterprise accounts. * Originating significant professional-services revenue. * Launching new propositions, businesses or territories. * Selling complex transformation programs rather than standalone products. * Working across multiple industries or geographic markets. * Developing business through alliance or ecosystem relationships. * Financial Services, Telecommunications or other large-enterprise sectors.