Senior Digital Consulting Advisor - Expression of Interest

Job Description

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is accepting expressions of interest for a Senior Digital Consulting Advisor to join its Digital Consulting business focusing on 3,700+ professionals with industry-leading expertise in areas including decarbonization, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, renewables advisory, asset optimization, and digital solutions. A multi-sector business unit, we are focused on providing technical consulting during the planning, design, building, operation and optimization of assets, facilities, and infrastructure across a range of end markets including energy, industrial, power, mining, and life sciences. This opportunity is Hybrid in Houston or potentially remote depending on the applicant.

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The Role

The Senior Digital Consulting Advisor will provide specialist knowledge and technical project management input, assurance and guidance and act as Trusted Advisor (TA) in your area of specialization. You will also be key in providing advisory services to our clients and work collaboratively with our technology partners in Digital Consulting and Decarbonization.

Our ideal candidate will be addressing client needs within the Global and Americas region alongside the wider Wood business. An individual who thrives in working closely with clients and our best global business, who are digital and domain experts, possess outstanding stakeholder engagement and change management skills, and hold and nourish muti-tiered client relationships, to drive real tangible decarbonization and digital transformation outcomes for the energy security & energy transition sectors.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Our Digital Consulting group empowers our clients by designing digital strategies and integrating solutions that drive advancements and value across the asset lifecycle. We work with our clients to design their digital transformation strategy, ensuring their digital ecosystem drives tangible outcomes. Importantly, our first-hand knowledge of industrial sectors and the assets within them means we're able to implement the digital strategy effectively too.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across decarbonization and digital transformation outcomes for the energy security & energy transition sectors.
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs. This opportunity is Hybrid in Houston or potentially remote depending on the applicant.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
• Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession

Responsibilities

Typical responsibilities

• Support Digital Advisory to secure, manage and deliver innovation, strategy and business transformation scopes, collaborating as a seller-doer with the Growth & Development function and adjacent Consulting business units.
• Typically advise within a client project team of 4-8 business, digital and deep domain experts focusing developing a clear understanding of the client problem, formulating an agile and inclusive execution approach, and rapid and sustained value delivery in asset management, digitalization, decarbonization, automation and organizational transformation.
• Primary project scopes may include feasibility and proof-of-concept studies, digital strategy development, business process updates and organizational design, improvement programs, gap analyses and strategic roadmaps, implementation project/program plan development, project/program management of pull-through execution scopes, adoption and sustainment support.
• Familiar with the Accelerate^ framework and be confident to deliver digital strategies utilizing this tool kit
• Contribute to the operationalization of Wood's client-facing innovation function, established for the development of innovative digital solutions, including co-creation of solution with clients within Digital Advisory & working closely with Intelligent Asset Solutions.
• Have Customer Success as your key driver, and actively seeking pull-through opportunities to deliver more client value and grow the opportunity for Wood
• Make an important contribution to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results.
• In a collaborative team setting, you'll work closely with others but also autonomously with direction
• Superior analytical, conceptual, business and design thinking skills and strong interpersonal and communication skills will ensure successful client projects and team performance.
• Client project work typically includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating, and testing hypotheses, valuing and developing recommendations for presentation to senior client management and other key stakeholders at multiple levels. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Expected:

• Engineering or related professional degree with consistent outstanding academic record
• 5+ years of relevant experience in the energy, materials and decarbonization sectors
• Previous advisory or consulting experience, including change management advisory and implementation
• Deep expertise in the energy and minerals industries as well as solid functional knowledge including but not limited to digital transformation, strategy, business development, energy, supply chain, project management, marketing and sales, etc.
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated collaborative approach in a team environment
• Ability to take initiative, break new ground, create opportunities and take risks
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Networked, with a demonstrated portfolio of industry business relationships
• Ability to leverage those industry relationships to develop and secure business for the team and pull-through business for adjacent teams
• An expert communicator, with a high degree of emotional intelligence and influencing skills
• Advanced practitioner of Agile project delivery methodologies in an Advisory or Consultancy context.
• Advanced practitioner of the Accelerate^ framework for delivery of digital strategies

Desirable:

• Advanced degree and MBA

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.