(Global Petroleum Gas) Strategist

• Monitor, evaluate and analyze market landscape, trends, competition, benchmarks, opportunities and threats.
  
• Identify the needs of the business organization and develop plans to determine the overall direction it should take to actualize its goals.
  
• Develop & communicate strategies (planning, prioritization, and decision making) to address competition, changes in customer preference, and improvements in technology and marketing tools.
  
• Execute strategic plan including development of new businesses, investment strategies and put plans into action.
  
• Work independently on day-to-day management of large- and medium-scale projects related to key business line initiatives.
  
• Facilitate workshops, translate conclusions into recommendations, or help design and implement large-scale organizational change programs.
  
• Support the annual planning process, tying budgets to projects and outcomes.
  
• Address business problems, take a long-term perspective, but can also execute on near term monthly goals. Identify operational inefficiencies, and develop solutions including resource requirements, timing, and risks.
  
• Build appropriate external and internal presentation materials on the Business Line Strategies, Vision, Missions, etc...
  
• Support ad-hoc management requests, analyses and reports.
  

Requirements

• A bachelor s degree from a leading college or university in Business. Administration, Computer Science, Economics, or Statistics, or in a related field.
  
• It is preferred to have an advanced business degree (e.g., MBA) and/or relevant professional certification (e.g., CFA, PMP).
  
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity firm or similar organization.
  
• You must have significant demonstrable work experience in the practice of strategy development, review and implementation. Also, a strong knowledge of business case development is required.
  

• Communication skills: Applicants must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly articulate the insights from findings to management and relevant stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to influence for impact and ability to produce top quality written and oral reports in English.
  
• Problem-solving skills: They must be intellectually curious individuals with strong creative and imaginative prowess to generate ideas to solve business problems.
  
• Independent Critical thinking: They require strong critical thinking abilities to draw sound conclusions from information and various data sources at their disposal. It is crucial that they can separate relevant information from less vital ones with respect to solving a particular business problem. They must also have the capacity to analyze data objectively, applying logical thought and proffering solutions, taking a long-term perspective.
  
• Strong quantitative and financial modeling skills: It is important that they can work with large data sets to provide analytical support to all aspects of the business.
  
• Comfort with ambiguity: Decision making involves some level of uncertainty, so it is important that applicants are comfortable with ambiguity.
  
• Computer skills: Applicants should possess advanced excel skills and be proficient in PowerPoint for presentation purposes.
  
• Collaborative skills: They must be able to work with cross-functional teams and have the maturity to interact directly with senior executives across departments, as well as provide leadership to teams on the implementation of strategic initiatives.
  
• Risk Management knowledge (processes and tools).
  
• ESG knowledge: knowledge of a diverse array of sustainability issues ranging from social impacts to communities to technical, environmental and economic impacts associated with key issues.
  
• Sector of Experience: Experience in one or more of the following fields: aviation, marine, medical services, housing, utilities, transportation, safety, security, loss prevention, human resources, public affairs, corporate affairs.
  

Benefits