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 provides expert consulting services to hundreds of industry stakeholders globally, including regional operators, national and international oil companies, financial institutions and governments. Our expertise extends across the energy, fuel and petrochemical value chains, allowing us to help our clients address the full range of their strategic and operational challenges.  We are able to draw directly on Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary research – a unique competitive advantage.

Our consultants have outstanding credentials, first-class connections with key industry decision-makers globally and an unrivalled knowledge of regional and local markets. We deliver advice that is based on real substance.

Role Purpose

As a key member of our Chemicals Consulting team, you will be responsible for managing commercial and strategic consultancy projects in the chemicals industry.  The position requires the ability to apply industry knowledge and experience to a broad range of consulting projects and client situations.

The successful candidate will proactively drive the growth of our Chemicals practice, leveraging deep relationships across the industry to understand clients' challenges and needs and taking a key role in the development of new consulting offerings.

The role is high-profile both internally and externally and will directly contribute to the double-digit growth of our chemicals practice.

The successful candidate can expect moderate travel, both regional and global.

Business Development

• Proactively maintaining a high level of client interaction across the region
• Developing strong relationships and repeatable, profitable consulting business
• Promoting best practice in business development across the organisation
• Scoping and writing pitches, ensuring quality and appropriate pricing

Project Direction

• Assuming overall responsibility for project success working with the team and clients to ensure high quality, insightful results achieving project objectives
• Providing functional guidance and content expertise while fostering the individual development of team members
• Improving operational processes for the life cycle of consulting assignments and ensuring processes are embedded across team members
• Identifying and pitching follow-up and resale opportunities
• Working closely with the Sales and Account Management teams

Thought Leadership

• Keeping abreast of industry developments and generating innovative ideas and approaches to industry issues
• Engaging with and developing a senior-level client network
• Building and maintaining an internal network across Consulting, Research and Sales and Account Management
• Working with colleagues in our other sector consulting teams to ensure good coordination across the value chain for our clients

Knowledge & Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant field and (master’s/diploma/PhD) or MBA preferred
• Significant previous experience, at least 10-12 years in a senior chemicals-focused strategy consulting role or a senior strategic planning, business development, or commercial role within the petrochemical/polymers industry
• Expert industry knowledge of chemicals markets, operations, business models and strategies 
• Track record and experience in directing, managing and executing consulting engagements and driving industry and/or consulting business development
• Experience in Latin America and Spanish language skills are a plus

Core Competencies

• Focuses on how and what we do to deliver the vision and strategy
• Issue identification, problem solving and analysis
• Planning, implementation and control
• Providing Leadership
• Building and Maintaining Relationships
• Client Focused

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 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.

EEO statement

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Wood Mackenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D, and a member of E-Verify.

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