Principal Consultant - Supply Chain
Principal Consultant - Supply Chain
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Job Description
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 everchanging world companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. Thats why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth backed by over 50 years experience. Our team of over 2400 experts operating across 30 global locations are enabling customers decisions through realtime 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.
Wood Mackenzie Values
- 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
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 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 Principal Consultant you will be one of the first hires for the Supply Chain Consulting team in Wood Mackenzies Gurugram office and will in partbe responsible with support from counterparts in the US office for all aspects of setting up and running the location. This includes everything from initial office setup and operations to helping build a local team and ensuring the overall success of the office. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial selfstarter with a strong background in business operations team leadership and analytics.
In your role as Principal you will be responsible for coordination with your US team leads and 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 decisions. You will work closely with your project lead to successfully manage the project schedule.
You will play a vital role in mentoring and performing QA/QC work for the other team members within the Gurugram office. In some cases (e.g. on smaller projects) you may not have more junior staff below you and so we are looking for someone who can roll up their sleeves and help us get the work done regardless of the scenario. You will have opportunities to develop relationships with our USbased consultants and be a role model for our more junior staff.
Main Responsibilities:
Upstanding and Leading Gurugram Office
Recruit hire and onboard team members for new Gurugrambased Supply Chain Consulting Team
Provide leadership guidance and mentorship to the local Supply Chain Team
Foster a positive and collaborative office culture aligned with company values
Maintain high standards of ethical conduct and confidentiality
Identify and mitigate potential risks related to the local office
Assist in the development and of strategic growth and success plans for the local office
Align local office goals with the overall vision and objectives of the company
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
Oversee more junior members of the Supply Chain Consulting team and drive successful project
Develop and maintain work plans to accomplish project scopes while setting clear objectives and deliverables
Regularly update management on project progress
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 that they license in addition to using the tools to empower your own work
About You:
Bachelors degree required Masters degree is preferred
Experience working with Global teams
7 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 project/time management and managerial skills
Strong technical writing ability to write persuasive documents and construct highimpact storylines
Effective communication and interpersonal skills
Proven success contributing to a teamoriented environment both as an individual contributor and a team leader
Passionate about active coaching and committed to improving productivity and opportunities for junior staff
Ability to learn quickly and adapt based on the needs of clients and WoodMac; focus on solutions not problems
Demonstrated ability to lead a dynamic cohesive team and to work effectively in a team environment
Actively work to develop areas of expertise
Results driven; enjoys the challenge of a changing business environment.
Must be flexible in working across different time zones (most clients and SCC team currently sit in the US) there will be an expectation of 34 working hours of overlap with US East Coast time zone
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 selfawareness; 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 clientinteraction 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 as well as identify opportunities for expanding our client footprint
The nature of this role precludes it from consideration for parttime or flexible working arrangements
Position will require 34 hours of overlap working time with US East Coast timezone
This position does not provide visa sponsorship
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Equal Opportunities
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
