Principal Consultant Upstream Consulting

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Role Description

As a Principal Consultant on the Asia Pacific Upstream & Carbon Management Consulting team you will play a key role in our growing Asia Pacific consulting practice. You will be involved in all aspects of the consulting process from shaping the opportunity performing the analysis managing the project and working closely with senior clients and Wood Mackenzie experts to develop insights that support critical strategic decisions.

Your primary role will be managing commercial and strategy consultancy projects for companies in the Upstream & Carbon Management sectors in Asia Pacific. This includes a growing number of energy security-themed engagements related to Portfolio Resilience New Market Entry Strategic Partnerships CCUS and GHG emissions etc.

This role requires a high level of creative thinking analytical and problem-solving abilities coupled with detailed knowledge and experience of the Upstream & CCUS markets. These capabilities must be accompanied by a strong command of oral and written communication skills in both internal as well as client-facing environments. Additionally outstanding team and project management capabilities in a consulting context are required for the purpose of this role.

The role requires frequent engagement with and work alongside senior client teams and occasional travel throughout the Asia Pacific region. We are also not looking for just a principle consultant rather we are looking for the next leaders for Wood Mackenzies Asia Pacific consulting practice who will help advise our clients with the most pressing questions and strategic decisions.

Wood Mackenzies golden reputation places our consultants in the best situation to succeed and we are the go-to to help Upstream clients financials and governments navigate the evolving Energy landscape.

Main Responsibilities

As a Principal Consultant at WoodMackenzieyou will lead our consulting assignments and business development efforts. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Be the main point of contact with key client stakeholders during project delivery (status calls presentations) and ultimately responsible to deliver such work on time and within budget.

• Manage and execute complex consulting projects by setting up a detailed project plan and working with a team to execute toward milestones.

  • Own delivery of assigned workstreams ensuring they are scoped executed and delivered on time and to the expected quality.

  • Coordinate internal resources (e.g. research analysts data analysts subject matter experts) to develop fit-for-purpose outputs.

  • Ensure findings are grounded in robust data clear logic and aligned to client priorities.

• Bring a thorough and current understanding of the upstream sector in the Asia Pacific region within the context of the energy security affordability and sustainability and be able to effectively discussrecentevents and implications with clients and colleagues

• Engage clients to identify potential business opportunities translating open-ended business inquiries into formal project proposals.

• Train coach and mentor junior consultants to deliver high-quality work for our clients and build a bench of future industry experts and leaders

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Knowledge & Experience Required

• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline such as business economics finance statistics or engineering; masters and/or MBA preferred

• At least ten years experience in the upstream industry with 6-8 years of relevant experience in a management consulting or energy-focused consulting role or other strategic/commercial role relating to upstream oil and gas.

• Experience building and maintaining relationships with clients

• Experience managing key project workflows and overall coordination of projects in a Project Manager role

• Strong understanding of the energy value chain (exploration development production transportation transformation and commercialization) including the implications of the energy transition

• Strong understanding of commercial operations business models and strategies

• Track record of quickly becoming knowledgeable and speaking credibly about a wide range of subjects and themes

• Proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia and experience working within Indonesian business environments desirable.

Recent projects our Upstream practice have engaged in include:

• Advising a government in Asia and developing a successful licensing round strategy including fiscal system design bidding criteria assessment and overall regulation

• Advising an energy infrastructure group to formulate its CCUS and Hydrogen strategies and assess its internal capabilities for execution

• Evaluating and benchmarking the carbon footprint of the portfolio of a large independent against industry and leaders in the context of the energy transition

• Conducting multi-phased market entry assessments for Japanese independents evaluating economic potential as well as commercial country and regulatory risks

• Executing a multiple commercial due diligence program for an upstream global player in pursuit of transactions on four continents

• Evaluating capability and suitability of potential partners to deliver across four broad domains of upstream and carbon asset expertise

• Supporting an upstream industry association to deliver key messages towards attracting investment to secure country production and decarbonization goals

• Developed a business case to support an independent oil company extension of a late life asset

• Assessing the resiliency of the portfolio of an independent gas producer against different climate scenarios for the TCFD report

• Conducting a study about the financial industrys requirements on ESG disclosures and actions for the energy industry and its implications for an upstream focused operator

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