Managing Consultant - Energy Supply Chain

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.

For over 50 years our work has guided the decisions of the world’s most influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions and governments.

Now, with the world’s energy system more complex and interconnected than ever before, sector-specific views are no longer enough. That’s why we’ve redefined what’s possible with Intelligence Connected.

By fusing our unparalleled proprietary data with the sharpest analytical minds, all supercharged by Synoptic AI, we deliver a clear, interconnected view of the entire value chain. Our trusted team of 2,700 experts across 30 countries breaks siloes and connects industries, markets and regions across the globe.

This empowers our customers to identify risk sooner, spot opportunities faster and recalibrate strategy with confidence – whether planning days, weeks, months or decades ahead.

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• Inclusive – we succeed together
• Trusting – we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action

With ambitious growth goals over the next four to five years, WoodMac Supply Chain Consulting is an exciting place to build a career. With a very strong pipeline over the foreseeable future, our intent is to build out our team with folks capable supporting and driving execution of our upcoming client engagements while helping make our revenue goal achievable.  These people will bring strong analytical and communication skills to the table and will have ambition to lead projects and manage client relationships in the future.

In your role as Managing Consultant, you will be responsible for execution and delivery on the projects that you are staffed. You will be tasked with developing and delivering insights drawn from our unparalleled industry data and experience. You will deliver innovative thinking supported by market research and your subject matter expertise and will leverage our software tools to help our energy clients make effective supply chain and capital project execution decisions. You will work closely with your project lead to successfully manage the project schedule. 

Depending on the size of the project that you are staffed on, you may have some combination of Consultants and Senior Consultants on the team over which you would play a vital role in mentoring and performing QA/QC on the work that they perform.  In some cases (e.g. on smaller projects) you may not have more junior staff below you and so we are looking for someone who can roll up their sleeves and help us get the work done regardless of the scenario. You will likely have opportunities to develop relationships with clients and be a role model for our more junior staff.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide deep analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and synthesize results into meaningful conclusions to help our clients make strategic procurement and capital project decisions

• Perform market research to assess supply and demand factors influencing our clients' strategic business decisions

• Support the bidding processes for large capital project contracts and strategic supply chain initiatives, including: performing pricing analysis, coordinating bidder correspondence, designing and orchestrating bidder negotiations and implementing contracts

• Oversee more junior members of the Supply Chain Consulting team and drive successful project execution

• Coordinate / communicate with client supply chain management, PMOs, project executives and engineering teams as they design and implement supply chain and capital project procurement solutions

• Use WoodMac Energy Intelligence Platform software tools to analyze spend, build custom cost models, forecast escalation, manage eSourcing bid events and support many of our other consulting solutions. This often requires training our clients to harness the value of the WoodMac tools that they license in addition to using the tools to empower your own work

• Managing Consultants are asked to take on the increasing responsibilities of managing internal and client teams as they gain experience and progress towards promotion to Principal Consultant

Qualifications

About You

• BA/BS degree with focus in engineering, science, supply chain or business required, Master's degree is preferred

• 5+ years in a Consulting, Supply Chain, Operations, or Engineering function; experience within the Power & Renewables and/or Oil & Gas sectors is preferred

• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and time management skills

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills and desire to build trust with your client

• Proven success contributing to team-oriented environments

• Passionate about supporting the development of our Consultants and Senior Consultants

• Demonstrates judgement, maturity, and understanding of client challenges and constraints

• Actively work to develop areas of expertise

• Support the development of unique approaches

• Results driven; enjoys the challenge of a changing business environment

• Willingness to travel 60- 80% of the time                                                                                                   

Expectations

This section is not a comprehensive list of everything that is expected from the ideal candidate but rather a spotlight on the skills and behaviors that are most critical to the role:

• Personal Impact – a strong sense of self-awareness; understand how others perceive and are impacted by your actions for which you take ownership and accountability

• Growth Mindset – believe that new abilities can be developed through practice, embrace feedback, motivate others, solve problems and persist

• Customer Collaboration – the desire to understand who our customers are, to engage effectively, build impactful relationships, and to serve all while keeping them at the heart of our decision making

• Planning and Prioritizing – a proven ability to plan, prioritize, monitor and manage workflows

• Continuous Improvement – an ongoing effort to improve ourselves, our offerings and the way we work​​​​​​​

Other

• The ideal candidate will work in close proximity of one of our offices in which our Supply Chain Consulting group has a presence in (i.e. Calgary, Houston, Boston, or New York); however, remote working arrangements may be considered for this role

• The nature of this role precludes it from consideration for part-time or flexible working arrangements

• This position does not provide visa sponsorship

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov 

If you are applying for a role and have a physical or mental disability, we will support you with your application or through the hiring process.