Managing Consultant - Energy Supply Chain (IT Programs)

Wood Mackenzie; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood Mackenzie is seeking a Managing Consultant to lead delivery on client engagements within Supply Chain Consulting, driving insights from our data and expertise.

You will mentor junior staff, manage client relationships, and collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to design procurement and capital project solutions. A strong analytics background and travel willingness are essential.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree with focus in engineering, science, supply chain or business required; Master's preferred.
• 5+ years in Consulting, Supply Chain, Operations, or Engineering; Power & Renewables and/or Oil & Gas sectors preferred.
• Exposure to IT or digital program environments is a plus.
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and time management skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills; ability to build trust with clients.
• Willingness to travel 60-80% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to inform strategic procurement and capital project decisions.
• Perform market research to assess supply and demand factors impacting client decisions.
• Support bidding processes for large capital projects, including pricing analysis and negotiations.
• Support sourcing and vendor selection for IT and digital programs; evaluate contracts and SLAs.
• Oversee junior team members and QA/QC on project work; mentor as needed.
• Coordinate with client stakeholders (supply chain, PMOs, engineering) to design procurement solutions.
• Utilize WoodMac Energy Intelligence Platform tools to analyze spend, build cost models, forecast escalation, and support consulting solutions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Client communication

Project leadership

Time management

Team mentoring

Interpersonal skills

Education

BA/BS degree in engineering, science, supply chain or business

Master's degree preferred

Job description

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.

Wood Mackenzie

Intelligence Connected

• 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

Role Purpose

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. A growing portion of our pipeline supports client IT and digital programs, including ERP, GIS, customer information systems and network modernization. On that work we co‑own the sourcing, vendor selection, contract structuring and program governance rather than the technical implementation, and candidates who have seen programs like these up close will find a clear lane for that experience here.

Main Responsibilities (Serving Our Clients)

• 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
• Support sourcing and vendor selection for client IT and digital programs, including RFP design and evaluation, software and system integrator pricing analysis, and contract and statement of work structuring
• 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

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
• Exposure to IT or digital program environments is a plus, for example ERP implementations, IT category sourcing or vendor management, and is not a requirement
• 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
• Comfortable working alongside client IT, PMO and engineering stakeholders
• 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

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 (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov