Supply Chain Consultant
Company
Wood Mackenzie is the global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources. Driven by data. Powered by people. In the middle of an energy revolution, businesses and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience in natural resources. Today, our team of over 2,000 experts operate across 30 global locations, inspiring customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make bold decisions when it matters most.
Role Purpose
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 of supporting and driving execution of our upcoming client engagements while helping make our revenue goals achievable. These people will bring strong analytical and communication skills to the table and will have ambition to lead projects and manage client relationships in the future.
In your role as Consultant, you will be responsible for execution 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 the subject matter expertise of the collective WoodMac Supply Chain team. You will leverage our software tools to help our energy clients make effective supply chain and capital project execution decisions. You will work closely with your project lead to successfully deliver to the project schedule. You will welcome the opportunity to onboard Consultants who subsequently join the team. We are looking for candidates who are anxious to roll up their sleeves to help us get the work done while enabling the energy transition. You will have opportunities to develop relationships with clients and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.
Main Responsibilities (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
- 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
- Coordinate / communicate with client supply chain stakeholders as they design and implement supply chain strategies
- Contribute to the broader Supply Chain Consulting team’s goals and facilitate successful project execution
About You
- BA/BS degree with focus in engineering, science, supply chain or business required, Master’s degree is preferred
- Coops / Internships 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, and time management skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly inquisitive, innovative, organized and detail-oriented
- Work in team-oriented environments
- Actively work to develop areas of expertise
- Results driven; enjoys the challenge of a changing business environment
- Willingness to travel 60- 80% of the time
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 self-awareness; 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 Collaboration – the desire to understand who our customers are, to engage effectively, build impactful relationships, 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 your own workflows
- Continuous Improvement – an ongoing effort to improve ourselves, our offerings and the way we work
Other
The ideal candidate will be expected to work in close proximity of one our offices in which our Supply Chain Consulting group has a presence in (i.e. Boston, Houston, or San Francisco)
- The nature of this role precludes it from consideration for part-time or flexible working arrangements
- This position does not provide visa sponsorship
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