Senior Consultant - Petroleum Refining - Nexant, Inc (New York, NY)

About the Job

We are currently seeking a Senior Consultant for Nexant’s Consulting Business Unit. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience in the petroleum refining and natural gas sectors, will manage work streams and medium size projects, and will make a significant contribution to winning work and have a key role in developing client accounts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Liaise with clients to manage project deliverables
• Develop relationships and win new business
• Manage assignments and maintain quality control, budget and schedule of all deliverables, with demonstrated excellence
• Lead execution of assignments with a team of junior-level analysts as required by the project
• Lead in writing proposals
• Lead in closing contracts
• Lead or assists in project management, execution and/or delivery of engagement with direct interaction with clients
• Has a full understanding of the scope and methodology for executing engagements
• Participate in the management and delivery of consultancy engagements to exceed clients’ expectations and meet internal quality, time and budget constraints
• Contribute to sales of new work and developing key client accounts
• Provide supervision, support and development of junior colleagues as appropriate
• Help maintain and extend Nexant’s recognized brand leadership in industry-focused consultancy covering commercial, techno-economic and strategic analysis. Typically, this is achieved through preparation of conference papers, and press articles as well as personal relationships

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a subject relevant to the energy industry (for example engineering, chemistry, economics)
• Higher degree in relevant subject is a plus (Masters, PhD, MBA)
• Minimum of 5-15 years of industry experience with a specific technical and/or commercial focus in petroleum refining
• Working experience with a petroleum refining company, with time at a top industry or management consultancy a major plus
• Excellent presentation and confident report writing skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrable leadership and management skills
• Experience of developing and delivering business cases to sponsors and investors
• Excellent verbal communication skills for interacting with clients
• Proven ability to generate consulting revenue
• Positive and flexible attitude
• Excellent verbal communication skills in English
• Diplomatic in meeting and working with people, good cultural awareness
• IT skills including word processing, advanced knowledge of Excel, and use of databases
• Understanding and commitment to equal opportunities
• Flexible and willing to work extra hours as necessary to accommodate busy work loads

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