Principal Consultant - Supply Chain

As a Principal Consultant, you will be one of the first hires for the Supply Chain Consulting team in Wood Mackenzie’s Gurugram office and will in part be 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 self-starter 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 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 your subject matter expertise and 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 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 US-based 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 Gurugram-based 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 execution 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 execution

• 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:

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's 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 high-impact storylines

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

• Proven success contributing to a team-oriented 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 3-4 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 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 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 client-interaction 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 part-time or flexible working arrangements

• Position will require 3-4 hours of overlap working time with US East Coast timezone

• This position does not provide visa sponsorship

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