Consulting Vice President, Head of Americas Gas & LNG

Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors.

Wood Mackenzie’s services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie’s team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.

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Wood Mackenzie is the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision-making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

We monitor key events and conduct research to produce thought-provoking reports, data models, and presentations. From asset valuation to corporate reports, from market supply-demand research to price-forecasting, and from the regional to the global, our analysis helps shape our customers’ commercial strategies. Our analysts are instrumental in Wood Mackenzie’s purpose to transform the way we power our planet.

We also support bespoke consulting projects, diving deeper into our data to answer unique questions. We help our Sales team retain and win new business by spending time with customers and answering questions that matter to them. We work closely with colleagues in our Data and Product functions to maintain the quality of our published data and to deliver content via our growing Lens platform.

Through carrying out primary research, responding to customer questions, and presenting to industry stakeholders, you will build relationships and a network of contacts at key operators, national bodies, and other relevant institutions. Over time you will gain specialist knowledge and develop the skills you require to progress your career at Wood Mackenzie

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Job Description

The Vice President, Head of Americas Gas & LNG Consulting, is a senior leader in our global Gas & LNG consulting practice. The role holder will lead and develop a regional team of Gas & LNG specialist consultants and play a key role in growing the practice. You will have involvement in all aspects of the consulting process, from shaping and pitching client engagements, directing projects, and working closely with clients and other Wood Mackenzie experts to form insights to support our clients’ critical strategic insight and commercial decisions.

The Gas & LNG practice delivers commercial and strategic engagements spanning ranges of gas and LNG topics through the value chain, including a growing number of engagements answering key questions about decarbonization and the energy transition. Our clients range through the industry, including core industry participants, the governments that host them, and the investors/lenders that finance them.

The role requires a combination of team leadership, client relationship management, business winning capabilities, and project delivery to create value for our clients and Wood Mackenzie. In addition, you will build practice capabilities in the Americas and globally through leading internal initiatives to develop thought leadership, expanded or new consulting offerings, and our people. You will engage frequently with senior client teams and occasional travel throughout the Americas region will be required.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the Americas Gas & LNG consulting practice

• Manage and develop Americas Gas & LNG team members, ranging from senior business developers and subject matter experts to project managers to developing consultants
• Develop and implement client and business development plans for Gas & LNG across the Americas
• Own team financial performance and pipeline management
• Own delivery standards for the team’s projects, ensuring they are delivered to clients with high quality standards, and on time and on budget
• Develop and implement plans to create or enhance offerings in line with global Gas & LNG strategic objectives
• Lead recruitment efforts for the team, and lead the team to develop Gas & LNG content knowledge for junior consultants
• Support broader Americas resource allocation from the Gas & LNG perspective, working with counterparts leading the other sectors within Americas
• Work with counterparts across the Americas segment teams for cross-sector opportunities in region

• Drive proposal efforts for consulting engagements
• Build and nurture networks and relationships in the industry
• Manage client relationships and expectations during engagements and ensure commitments to the client are met
• Lead client projects, working with clients and our Wood Mac team to ensure high quality, insightful results that support our clients’ strategic decisions
• Generate innovative ideas and approaches to industry issues that further enhance the value Wood Mackenzie can create for our clients

• Contribute to maintenance and development of global gas & LNG offerings
• Identify structural opportunities for gas & LNG consulting based on client feedback and market dynamics; bring Americas-focused market trends and opportunities to global discussions
• Work with counterparts across gas & LNG team on cross-region business development opportunities and cross-region project execution
• Leverage best practices and offering development across regional gas & LNG teams; contribute best practices from the Americas
• Partner with counterparts in the rest of the Gas & LNG sub-segment (notably Research and Sales) to deliver close collaboration, develop content, and build Wood Mackenzie’s Gas & LNG business

Qualifications

• Have a passion for leading teams and developing people, with demonstrated skills to utilize diverse talents and experience levels within our team
• Operate with an innate intellectual curiosity paired with superior analytical capability to be able to clearly and simply define and articulate complex problems
• Employ a structured approach with a collaborative and communicative style
• Have a well-established client network and experience building relationships
• Possess a strong understanding of client needs and how Woodmac can serve them, including deep knowledge of the gas & LNG value chain, including business models and strategies of different company types in the industry
• Demonstrate strong presentation skills, including presenting strategic insight to senior management and potential for public speaking engagements at industry conferences
• Consulting experience with a strong knowledge of project related processes is preferable

Equal Opportunities

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