Oil, Gas & Chemicals Operations - Oil & Gas Sector - Senior Manager- Consulting

Oil, Gas & Chemicals Operations - Oil & Gas Sector - Senior Manager- Consulting 

The energy industry is facing unprecedented challenges through volatile energy prices, decarbonization, technological advances, changes to the geopolitical landscape and supply and demand fluctuations. This creates an opportunity for the sector to pivot to a long-term strategy that helps address these challenges through an increased adoption of digital tools and capabilities and increased discipline in reducing operational costs and emissions while maintaining revenues and margins. As a result, our clients are investing across the board – from refreshing their operational strategy to implementing solutions that can scale across their enterprise.   

The opportunity 

Recognizing the need of our clients, we have formulated a digital operations team at the cross section of our supply chain and operations competency and energy sector. You will be working as a part of this team and responsible for helping develop our strategy, approach, solution options and value proposition for our upstream energy clients. This is a high-profile position that will work with Energy leaders and client serving teams across many EY practices. 

Your key responsibilities 

As a part of this role, you will be responsible for: 

Client Delivery 

As Energy companies explore opportunities to optimize their operational efficiency, you will help our clients understand areas to achieve operational excellence by examining their processes and tools including emissions reporting, exploration, drilling and completions, production, HSSE, accounting, reliability and engineering and examining operational KPI’s that drive costs and revenue. You will help our clients by crafting a strategy in line with their long-term goals or by implementing innovative and data driven digital solutions to drive speed to value. You will work as a part of cross competency teams within EY to bring the greatest value for our clients. You will craft and manage commercially viable engagements for EY.  

Business Development 

The purpose of this role is to help position EY for growth within the Oil, Gas & Chemicals operations sector in this rapidly changing market. You will help to support this capability within our digital operations team, help author thought leadership material, help develop our ‘Go to Market’ strategy, and develop sales collateral and solution materials to position EY in the market. You will learn about the various competencies and capabilities within EY. You will play an active role in the delivery lifecycle of engagements.  

Skills and attributes for success 

• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge in your functional area of supply chain. Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new processes and uncover new offering that may assist current customer base.  
• Provide mentoring and motivate diverse client engagement teams by delivering constructive on-the-job coaching to team members, while fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment. 
• Drive high-quality work within expected timeframes and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure clients are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes. 
• Build relationships with client personnel and deliver quality client services. Strive to assist our clients uncover additional areas of opportunity and manage the business development process. 
• Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess what the firm can deliver to serve clients. 

To qualify for the role you must have 

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Engineering/ Business/ Technology 
• A minimum of 8 years of Operations functional experience in oil, gas and/or chemicals operations   
• Proficiency in using upstream oil and gas software and systems  
• Deepwater asset/operations experience
• Strong knowledge of oil, gas and/or chemicals technologies, equipment, and industry standards 
• Familiar with oil, gas and/or chemicals facility operations and maintenance 
• Knowledge of safety protocols and regulatory compliance in upstream operations 
• Demonstrated results in improving the profitability of oil, gas and/or chemicals operations using digital tools 
• Strategic thinking and solutioning skills to craft a strong value proposition 
• Strong understanding of current solutions in the market and ability to craft a specific point of view for our clients 
• A keen appetite for technology and innovation while having a technology agnostic perspective 
• Strong collaboration and teaming skills  
• Curious mindset and desire to learn and grow 
• Highly seasoned project management skills and ability to complete multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment 
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization, sometimes without authority  
• Strong executive facilitation skills related to strategy development and problem solving 
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills (including presentations), as well as listening and interpretation skills  
• Willingness to go out of your comfort zone to break new grounds and explore part of your Industry Market with which you are not most familiar  

Ideally, you'll also have 

• A bachelor's degree, a master's degree focusing on engineering, supply chain, and/ or business 
• Prior consulting experience and/or industry experience where you have actively driven improvements in optimizing profitability and/or reliability and can translate that to digital use cases
• Ability to develop a book of business and lead in the client proposal process 

What we look for   

We are looking for people that are passionate consultants, at the top of their game, but who would like to continue to grow their subject matter expertise and help others around them achieve their potential. If you have a passion for assisting businesses achieve their full potential and working with some of the highest performing teams, this role might very well be for you. 

We also look for individuals who can excel at: 

• Fostering relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels. Consistently delivering quality client services. 
• Driving high- quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget. 
• Monitoring progress, managing risk and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes. 
• Managing expectations of client service delivery. 
• Staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business 
• Effectively managing and motivating client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds. Providing constructive on- the- job feedback/coaching to team members. 
• Fostering an innovative and inclusive team- oriented work environment. Playing an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization 
• Cultivating and managing business development opportunities. Developing and maintaining long- term client relationships and networks.