Advance your career with EY by joining our GDS Consulting AI & Data team as a Sales Support Senior Manager. This pivotal role drives Consulting growth by providing expert support for sales pursuits, proposal execution, and commercial analysis on high-priority opportunities. You'll collaborate closely with senior leaders to enhance sales effectiveness, improve deal quality, and maintain robust pipeline discipline.

EY offers a unique environment where you can build a career tailored to you. We provide the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology needed for you to thrive. Your distinct perspective is invaluable as we work together to build an even better EY and a better working world for everyone.

Spearhead end-to-end sales pursuits for consulting opportunities, from initial qualification through proposal development and pricing support. Shape deal strategies, solution positioning, and client value propositions in partnership with pursuit leaders. Meticulously track pipeline progress, update win probabilities, and manage pursuit milestones.

Oversee and coordinate responses to RFPs/RFIs, proposals, and client presentations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness with cross-functional teams. Consolidate inputs, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment between scope, commercials, and delivery approaches.

Conduct commercial and financial analysis, including pricing models, effort estimates, margin analysis, and financial summaries. Assist in preparing business cases, deal review materials, and approval documentation, highlighting commercial risks and opportunities. Ensure adherence to sales governance, review checkpoints, and approval workflows.

Serve as a primary contact for account teams, providing clear updates on pursuit status, risks, and next steps. Mentor and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants within the sales support team, sharing best practices in proposal writing and pursuit management.

A minimum of 15 years of experience is required in consulting sales support, pursuit management, commercial advisory, or related fields. Demonstrated hands-on experience supporting medium to large-scale consulting deals, particularly in technology, data, digital, or transformation programs, is essential.

Possess a strong understanding of the consulting sales lifecycle and proposal processes, coupled with practical knowledge of pricing, effort estimation, and commercial constructs. Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills are crucial for synthesizing complex information into clear, client-ready deliverables.

We are looking for detail-oriented individuals with strong execution discipline, comfortable working in fast-paced, deadline-driven pursuit environments. You should be a collaborative team player with emerging leadership capabilities and a commitment to high standards of quality, compliance, and professionalism. A solid understanding of AI is also required. A Bachelor's degree is mandatory, with an MBA or equivalent being a distinct advantage.