Senior Consultant – Supply Chain

Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables, energy, and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an ever-changing world, companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience. Our team of over 2,400 experts, operating across 30 global locations, are enabling customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.

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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 project and analytic innovation and successfully develop and manage client deliverables in partnership with our global Supply Chain Consulting team.

As a Senior Consultant, you will be one of the first hires for the Supply Chain Consulting team in Wood Mackenzie’s Gurugram office. In your role, 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 peers and project lead to successfully deliver on your project objectives.

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 Sourcing bid events and support many of our other consulting solutions
• Act as a mentor to Consultants on Supply Chain Consulting team and guide their efforts to facilitate successful project execution

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 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
• Highly inquisitive, innovative, organized and detail-oriented
• Proven success contributing to team-oriented environments
• Work in team-oriented environments
• Actively work to develop areas of expertise
• Results driven; enjoys the challenge of a changing business environment

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 Understanding – the desire to understand who our customers are, to engage effectively with teams, build impactful deliverables, 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:

• While this role may not include significant client-interaction as the team ramps up, opportunities for direct client interaction will increase as the team is established; the ideal candidate will be able to help support backend work for client deliverables and help with future transitions as opportunities for direct client interaction increase
• Position will require 3-4 hours of overlapping working time with the east coast US time zone
• The ideal candidate will work in close proximity to our Gurugram office and is expected to commute to the office at least 3 days a week in a hybrid working model
• The nature of this role precludes it from consideration for part-time or flexible working arrangements
• This position does not provide visa sponsorship

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