Senior Consultant, Energy

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve - providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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**Job Description**:
**Team Profile**

Our consultants have outstanding credentials, first-class connections with key energy and mining industry decision-makers globally and an unrivalled knowledge of global, regional and local markets. We deliver advice that is based on real substance.

Our client base is dynamic, varied and offers a young consultant the opportunity to work in projects across several traditional parts of the energy industry and as well with clients actively pursuing the energy transition and new alternative fuels.

**Role Purpose**

**Main Responsibilities**

**Analysis**
- Supporting the consulting teams on a range of consulting projects, particularly through operation of sophisticated internal models and creating and developing new analyses
- Contributing towards the content and format of consulting presentations and reports
- Extracting data from internal and external sources such as databases, websites and Wood Mackenzie products
- Demonstrate high standards of professionalism and attention to detail to ensure the highest quality analysis is delivered
- Proactively take ownership of project workstreams with the ability to defend work to clients and consulting team peers in a coherent, credible and authoritative manner

**Thinking Creatively**:

- Actively takes part in brainstorming
- Offers solutions to problems and challenges the status quo
- Suggests alternatives and thinks “outside the box”

**Communication**
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills, both internally and externally
- Establish good working relationships with colleagues across the business
- Keep client and internal teams informed of progress constantly
- Ability to present clearly and concisely to clients and colleagues

**Managing Tasks**
- Demonstrate the ability to plan and prioritize own workload to ensure project objectives and targets are met

**Teamwork**
- Proven effective cross team working skills and mind set, being able to work in an open and trusting way across the broader consulting, research and sales teams in Wood Mackenzie
- Adopt a flexible approach towards work
- Support the wider consulting practice development by working with colleagues to understand what new offerings can be taken to clients
- Provide inputs to the development of consulting best practice, offerings and strategy

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**Qualifications**:
**Knowledge and Experience**
- An understanding of the energy sector, industry dynamics, commercial operations, business models and strategies
- Good analytical skills - you are comfortable with data and modelling
- Strong attention to detail
- Competent in using MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint to run analysis and communicate messages to your audience
- Effective communication skills - you can deliver messages and explain complex or technical information in a coherent, authoritative, and engaging manner
- Strong interpersonal skills - you like working with people and can work well on a project team
- A curious and commercial mindset - you are keen to learn and understand things from a client’s point of view
- The ability to work autonomously, deliver to a deadline and adapt to changes
- Ideally experience, in a consulting environment in the energy sector, perhaps with experience in valuation, corporate strategy, market entry strategy and financial modelling
- Knowledge of Mandarin and/or other Asian languages is advantageous

**Key Competencies**
- Effective cross team worker, being able to work in an open and trusting way
- Results oriented - ensuring that high quality work standards are met
- Problem solving skills
- Creativity
- Client focus orientation
- Interest in the professional services sector
- Adopts a flexible approach towards work
- Adaptability
- Logical, structured thinker
- Strong Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills
- Personal time management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong writing and presentation skills

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