Bilingual Managing Consultant, Gas & LNG (English and Spanish)

Location: Houston, TX

Company

For the past 40 years, Wood Mackenzie has established its reputation as a trusted source of intelligence, enriching lives by empowering clients with unique insight on the world’s natural resources. Now, as part of the Verisk Analytics family, that legacy is even stronger. Aligning with the world’s leading data analytics company extends our ability to help clients overcome the toughest challenges with our unrivalled analysis and advice. We will continue to build on the power of our existing approach to assess and value individual assets and companies, allowing our clients to pursue the most promising opportunities. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence that informs the strategic decisions that will ultimately shape the future direction of our global natural resources.

Team Profile                                             

Wood Mackenzie's Americas Gas & LNG Consulting team provides expert consulting services to many of the key natural gas and LNG industry stakeholders globally, including producers, integrated energy companies, midstream companies, LNG development companies, utilities, financial institutions and governments. Our expertise extends across the value chain, allowing us to help our clients address the full range of their strategic and operational challenges.  In delivering our strategic advice we are able to draw directly on Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary research-driven content and analytical tools – a unique source of commercial insight extending across markets, companies and assets.

Our Americas Gas & LNG Consultants have outstanding credentials, first-class connections with key industry decision-makers and an unrivalled knowledge of regional and local markets.

Role Purpose 

As a key member of our Americas Gas & LNG Consulting team, you will be responsible for managing commercial and strategy consultancy projects across the natural gas and LNG sector with a focus on the Latin American markets.  The position requires the ability to apply detailed knowledge and experience of the Gas & LNG industry to a broad range of consulting projects and client situations.

These analytical capabilities must be accompanied by a strong command of oral and written communication skills in English and Spanish for both internal as well as external and client audiences. The ideal candidate will have the ability to deliver plan and deliver outstanding quality work  in a fast-paced, client-facing environment..

While the principal focus of the role is on the Latin American markets, the job holder may be involved in a range of consulting projects spanning other regions of the world, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa or the Asia-Pacific regions. The successful candidate can thus expect a reasonable degree of national and international travel.

Main Responsibilities

As a Managing Consultant at Wood Mackenzie you will ensure the successful completion of our assignments and act as the accountable party for managing work flows on consulting projects. Your main responsibilities include:

• Understanding the global and regional gas and LNG market dynamics, being able to effectively discuss recent event and implications with clients and colleagues (Consulting and Research)
• Engaging clients to identify potential business opportunities, translating open-ended business inquiries into formal project proposals: effectively identify the ideal project methodology, properly scoping the associated work (identifying relevant work-streams and type of resources required to complete) and put forward a high-level work-plan and appropriate pricing
• Manage complex consulting projects and specific workstreams within larger projects,
• Developing an effective work plan and organizing proper resources for the projects and executing work towards key milestones. You will be ultimately responsible to execute such work on time and within budget
• Become the main point of contact with key client stakeholders during project delivery (status calls, presentations) and to channel specific market inquiries
• Train, coach and mentor Junior consultants
• Engage consulting colleagues across other sector groups and with Wood Mackenzie research staff to deliver the best value to our clients
• Generate innovative ideas and approaches to industry issues, both within particular assignments and to the consulting practice as a whole
• Structuring the overall objectives in line with the client’s issues and needs providing clear focused support and expertise to your team in structuring and solving problems
• Managing the workload while coaching team members to ensure a successful delivery
• Communicating recommendations and sensitive messages to senior level client audience
• Researching the client organization and industry, conducting interviews and facilitating workshops with client employees, management teams and other stakeholders
• Leading business development of follow-on work opportunities
• Contributing to new project scoping, lead discussions and work proposal drafting
• Taking a proactive role in building our team, by supporting the recruiting process  

Knowledge & Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant field, (master’s/diploma/PhD) and/or MBA in a relevant field is a plus
• Previous experience (4+ years) in an energy focused consulting role or a strategic project management/advisor role within the Oil and Gas industry
• Strong understanding of the energy value chain (exploration, development, production, transportation, transformation and commercialization)
• Strong understanding of operations, business models and strategies
• Experience managing and executing consulting engagements
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with clients
• Track record of quickly becoming knowledgeable and speaking credibly about a wide-range of subjects and themes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Spanish are required

Core Competencies

Energy focused – You are passionate and knowledgeable about the global and regional Gas and LNG markets, and you are able to transform that expertise into valuable insights for internal and external clients

Issue identification, problem solving and analysis - You identify relevant themes, problems and issues. You identify a broad range of solutions that tackle the root cause of the problem

Client focused - You are dedicated to meeting the needs of internal and external clients. You seek out and use information on products and services to make improvements.

Efficiency focused - you find ways to do things to ensure quality, accuracy and cost effectiveness

Determined and resilient - You work hard, take pride in what you do, recover from setbacks and keep going when times are tough

Building and Maintaining Relationships - You understand your impact on, and how to work with others. You share ideas and experience to achieve objectives

Communication - You are able to communicate effectively in a global context, utilising technologies in a way that ensures mutual understanding

Wood Mackenzie Core Values

Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.

Wood Mackenzie values each individual's contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.

Our core values are:

• Respect for the Individual
• Integrity
• Passion
• Persistence
• Confidence with humility
• Excellence
• Teamwork

We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.

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