Supply Chain & Operations - Oil & Gas - Upstream Operations Manager - Consulting

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Upstream Operations – Energy – Manager - Consulting

 

The upstream energy industry is facing unprecedented challenges through volatile energy prices, changes to 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.

 

Essential Job 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 lead 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 Upstream operations sector in this rapidly changing market. You will help to develop the upstream operations capability within our digital operations team, help author thought leadership material, help develop our ‘Go to Market’ strategy, 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 sales to delivery lifecycle of engagements.

 

Required Qualifications

 

To qualify for the role, you must have the following:

· Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Engineering/ Business/ Technology

· A minimum of 6 - 8 years of Upstream Operations functional experience in drilling, completions, or production operations with a strong background in real-time operating center (ROC) operations

· Proficiency in using ROC software and systems for real-time monitoring and decision making

· Strong knowledge of drilling/completions/production technologies, equipment, and industry standards

· Familiar with upstream oil and gas facility operation and maintenance

· Knowledge of safety protocols and regulatory compliance in upstream operations

· Demonstrated results in improving the profitability of oil and gas operations and fields 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