Senior Assistant, Research and Insights

Connect to your Industry

Global CoRe provides seven fundamental services to Deloitte around the world: knowledge services, creative services, contact center, data management assessment services, data protection, procurement, and real estate. We develop new and innovative ways to improve how these services are delivered across the organization, leveraging our global scope and strength to serve our organization within and across borders.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

In this role you will:

• Provide strategic insights to Deloitte’s senior leadership on market and client priorities, including growth strategies, competition, innovation, industry disruptions, alliances, and ecosystems.
• Learn and apply established research tools and methodologies to develop consultative research solutions.
• Identifies converging trends, market-size, whitespace opportunities, potential partnerships, competitive strategy, or growth pathways with a functional or holistic lens, without focusing on a specific sector
• Suggest alternatives and creative solutions to address clients' and stakeholders' current and anticipatory needs. Take the relationship beyond the transactional level.
• Manage project delivery by following the best project and time management practices while always adhering to quality guidelines.
• Present actionable insights and recommendations for senior leadership with a focus on the 'so-what' for Deloitte’s clients and businesses.
• Liaise with global colleagues to manage project expectations.
• Contribute to team activities and mentor new team members.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Postgraduate degree or equivalent from a premier B-school with proven work experience in research or professional services.
• Exceptional attention to detail and project ownership.
• Drive consultative discussions with stakeholders to suggest solutions.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and hypothesis-driven problem solving.
• Strong exposure to one or more industries. Familiarity with operating structures, strategic frameworks, regulations, and industry dynamics.
• Exceptional business writing and communication skills. Ability to distill complex information into concise narratives for executive audience.
• Strong storyboarding and visualization skills. Adhere to email etiquette in written communication.
• Confidently articulate ideas in client calls. Present findings and engage senior leadership effectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with research tools (Refinitiv, Capital IQ, Factiva, EMIS, etc.).
• Exposure to Gen AI tools and experience in prompt engineering is an advantage.
• Client-service exposure or experience working directly with senior leadership is preferred.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"Everyone at Deloitte builds relationships with their peers and puts in effort to get to know one another, making the work more enjoyable." – Deloitte Employee

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in Cardiff with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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