Senior Assistant, Global Strategic Insights Center

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Global CoRe is a shared service within Deloitte Global, providing fundamental services to Deloitte People around the world: Knowledge Services, Creative Services, Contact Center, Procurement and Strategic Insights Center.  We deliver essential capabilities that save time, convey insights, minimize risk, enhance client service delivery, solve problems, and contribute to Deloitte’s success.

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

As a Senior Assistant in this team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, insight-led work that informs strategic decision-making for Deloitte’s internal stakeholders. You will take ownership of workstreams, contribute to complex problem-solving, and help shape the narrative on critical business topics.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver strategic insights to Deloitte’s internal stakeholders on market and client priorities, including growth strategy, competition, innovation, industry disruption, and ecosystem opportunities
• Apply advanced research methodologies and frameworks to develop consultative, insight-led solutions
• Analyze complex datasets and market signals to identify trends, whitespace opportunities, partnerships, and growth pathways across industries
• Translate ambiguous problem statements into structured hypotheses and clear analytical approaches
• Develop high-quality, executive-ready outputs with a strong focus on the “so what” and business impact
• Manage end-to-end delivery of workstreams, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with stakeholder expectations
• Engage confidently with global stakeholders, moving relationships beyond transactional interactions to trusted advisor status
• Present findings and recommendations effectively in senior forums, responding to challenges and questions with confidence
• Contribute to team development through mentoring junior colleagues and supporting team initiatives

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g. Business, Economics, Finance, STEM)
• Proven experience in research, consulting, or professional services environments
• Demonstrated experience managing workstreams or leading components of complex projects

Core Skills & Capabilities:

• Strategic Thinking & Analysis
  • Strong ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights
  • Experience identifying trends, competitive dynamics, and market opportunities
• Consultative & Stakeholder Management Skills
  • Ability to engage stakeholders to understand needs, challenge assumptions, and shape solutions
  • Experience supporting or leading discussions with senior stakeholders
• Problem Solving & Comfort with Ambiguity
  • Experience working with loosely defined problems and building hypothesis-led approaches
  • Ability to propose creative, well-reasoned solutions
• Communication & Storytelling
  • Excellent business writing skills, with the ability to distil complex information into concise, executive-ready narratives
  • Strong presentation skills with experience presenting to senior audiences
• Project & Delivery Management
  • Proven ability to manage priorities, timelines, and quality across multiple deliverables
  • High level of ownership and attention to detail
• Technical & Research Skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
  • Experience using research databases (e.g. Capital IQ, Factiva, Refinitiv, EMIS)
  • Exposure to data visualization or analytics tools is beneficial
• Innovation & Digital Awareness
  • Awareness of emerging tools and their application in research and insights and fluency with GenAI prompting techniques
  • Curiosity and willingness to adopt new approaches

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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