Principal – Consulting
Role Purpose
We are seeking an individual with energy and natural resources management consulting skills, to help grow our Strategic Accounts consulting practice in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Region. The Principal Consultant will be a senior member of the EMEA SA consulting team based in Dubai, responsible for delivering an expanding range of strategic consulting assignments. As a Principal Consultant, you will take a leading role in our project team delivering a wide variety of consulting projects to clients.
As a key member of our EMEA team, you will be responsible for project managing energy related consultancy projects and for helping us enhance and deepen our advisory relationship with clients. You will be supported to grow your understanding of the evolving energy and natural resources sector to become an energy consultant. The position requires the ability to apply detailed knowledge of and experience in the energy space to a broad range of client situations, including the implications and opportunities inherent to the energy transition, and to develop strategic insight from an array of analyses, making use of our in-house tools and products.
While the role is part of the EMEA team, you will be involved in a range of consulting projects spanning the globe including the Americas and Asia. The successful candidate will therefore be expected to travel on a project-specific basis. Our clients include energy companies, private equity firms, financial institutions, infrastructure operators, investors, traders, governments and others.
Main Responsibilities
Project Management- Project planning – define course of action to accomplish goal of assignment
- Maintain close communication with clients to keep them informed of progress and ensure projects bring impactful insights that add strategic value
- Organise proper resources for projects, manage project implementation, structure deliverables and ensure high-quality delivery within the budget and timeline
- Oversee the work of other members of the team including Associates
- Identify follow-up and resale opportunities
- Follow company consulting procedures and methodologies
- Develop relationships with consulting clients to foster repeat business
- Discuss consulting needs with clients, prepare and present proposals to clients
- Collaborate with the team to scope opportunities and to estimate fees for quotation
- Participate in industry events to network with potential clients, where appropriate
- Coach and mentor more junior consultants, taking personal responsibility for their development and tracking of their progress
- Support the regional VP of Gas & LNG Consulting in expanding the consulting practice
- Assist with the development of new consulting offerings, to provide better insights and solutions to our clients
- Work with colleagues in other sector consulting teams – Upstream, Downstream, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Hydrogen, Emissions and Carbon Management – to ensure good coordination across the value chain for our clients
- Lead project reviews to foster continuous improvement
- Identify, obtain, sort and organise sources of information, both from the public domain, industry network and internal databases.
- Validate, analyse and critically assess sources of information
- Select an appropriate analytical tool(s) for each assignment, with the ability to also build simple excel models where required
- Utilise Wood Mackenzie products to extract information and data useful for the consulting engagement, when applicable
- Take ownership of and responsibility for analysis undertaken
- Work in an open and trusting way ensuring team spirit is maintained
- Ensure high quality work standards are met
- Show empathy towards others
- Adopt flexible approach towards work
- Keep abreast of developments across the energy and natural resources space, to identify business development opportunities and to provide insightful discussions and results to clients
- Collaborate closely with project team members, consultants from other projects / regions / sectors, research and…
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