Senior Consultant - Energy Supply Chain

Wood Mackenzie India; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood Mackenzie is seeking a qualified Supply Chain Consultant to support and lead client engagements in the energy and natural resources sectors. You will perform deep quantitative and qualitative analyses to guide strategic procurement and capital projects, and conduct market research to assess supply and demand factors influencing client decisions.

You will also support bids for large contracts, coordinate bidder communications, and help negotiate contracts while training clients to maximize

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required in engineering, science, supply chain, or business
• Master's degree preferred
• 3+ years in a Consulting, Supply Chain, Operations, or Engineering function
• Experience in Power & Renewables and/or Oil & Gas sectors is a plus
• Willingness to travel 60-80% of the time

Responsibilities

• Provide deep analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and synthesize results for strategic procurement and capital project decisions
• Perform market research to assess supply and demand factors influencing client decisions
• Support bidding processes for large capital project contracts, including pricing analysis, bidder coordination, negotiations and contract implementation
• Use WoodMac tools to analyze spend, build cost models, forecast escalation, and manage eSourcing bid events; train clients to use WoodMac tools
• Coordinate/communicate with client supply chain stakeholders in design and implementation of supply chain strategies
• Mentor Consultants on the Supply Chain Consulting team to aid project execution

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Time management

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Detail oriented

Teamwork

Leadership potential

Travel readiness

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.

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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

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 goals 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.

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.
• 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.
• Coordinate / communicate with client supply chain stakeholders as they design and implement supply chain strategies.
• Act as a mentor to Consultants on Supply Chain Consulting team and guide their efforts to facilitate successful project execution.

About You

• BA/BS degree with focus in engineering, science, supply chain or business required, Master's degree is preferred
• 3+ 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
• Highly inquisitive, innovative, organized and detail-oriented
• Work in team-oriented environments
• Actively work to develop areas of expertise
• 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 o