VP, Head of Oil & Chemical Assets

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are 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.

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Job Description

The Head of Oils & Chemicals Assets will be responsible for leading a large team and product set within our Global Oils & Chemicals business. The individual will be responsible for a broad product portfolio of asset modelling, benchmarking and evaluation tools, setting the strategic direction of our Oils & Chemicals Asset solutions, leading an experienced group of Refining and Petrochemical industry experts, managing teams across multiple time-zones and ultimately contributing to the commercial success of our Oils & Chemicals business. The role is also responsible for ensuring deliverables are of a consistently high standard and meet the needs of our broad customer base; partnering with Sales and Marketing to maximise the commercial success of the Assets services; and working with Consulting to deliver bespoke client projects.

In addition, the role holder is accountable for the effective collaboration across teams with other sectors/specialist areas, such that there is close alignment on cross-team or pan-sectoral issues, and client expectations are addressed. Furthermore, the successful candidate will be a role model for Wood Mackenzie values and culture, nurturing good practice and seeking continuous improvement.

This role reports to the head of Oils & Chemicals and will play a key part within the Oils & Chemicals leadership team, ultimately ensuring the success of our Oils & Chemicals business.

Main Responsibilities

· Your primary function is the holistic ownership of the Oils & Chemicals Assets business, with ultimate accountability for the overall success of its people, content, and products. This includes:

· Leading a diverse team, across many time-zones and locations that is delivering great content to our customers as they navigate their way through the energy transition to a low carbon economy.

· Developing a high-performance culture and highly engaged team.

· Ensuring the quality of our Asset analysis is maintained and enhanced meeting the changing needs of our customer base.

· Partnering with the Head of Markets and senior SMEs to deliver a research agenda that meets the needs of our customers.

· Overseeing and managing projects to deliver more value to customers and to create efficiency within our operations.

· Supporting the development of our next generation of client solutions (including Lens).

· Working with peers across other industry segment teams (Commodity Trading, Hydrogen, CCUS, Gas & LNG, etc.) to deliver leading integrated analysis.

· Supporting the delivery of bespoke consulting projects with Asset team resources as necessary.

· Maintaining a range of senior-level relationships with clients and industry participants to enhance WoodMac’s industry leading analysis and expertise.

Qualifications

You are a proven leader with a passion for developing people, a track record in delivery and you thrive in a high performance, collaborative, commercial environment.

· You understand commodity market and asset fundamentals, ideally with a focus on Oils & Chemicals, and how the use of data, models, analytics and advice can support strategic and commercial decision making.

· Experience with commercial analysis of energy industry assets plus near- and long-term market forecasting and the data and analytics that is required to support our customer’s strategic and operational needs would be of benefit.

· You will need the ability to develop robust business proposals, present competently to customers and internal stakeholders, providing insights related to complex data effectively.

· A team player with natural curiosity, who thrives in a collaborative, analytical environme