Regional Consulting Manager

Company Description

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.

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Job Description

Role Purpose

In this impactful and highly developmental role, you will work alongside the Regional Consulting Head to manage the team from a financial, operational and people perspective. You will serve as a key member of the regional Consulting Leadership Team, ensuring visibility and coordination on business development activity, staffing and operations. You will work closely with the global Consulting Leadership Team and peer RCMs to implement a “one team” approach across Consulting globally and increase collaboration with other functions. You will drive sustainable growth by working with the Head of Consulting Strategy and Regional team, helping set and execute strategy at a regional and global level.  

You will play a pivotal role in the future growth of the Consulting team in developing and driving the growth of the Regional Consulting Group (RCG) – building a sustainable talent pipeline. You will be responsible for maintaining a strong, diverse, and highly engaged regional Consulting team through outstanding hiring and people development practices. You will directly oversee the day-to-day project staffing of the RCG. You will create a learning and development environment for RCG members, providing a cross-sector experience and structured development beyond “on the job” training. 

You will maintain and contribute to regional implementation of global management approaches by working alongside the Regional Consulting Head and in collaboration with peer RCMs in other regions.  You will operate within global processes, KPIs, tools and frameworks but implement them regionally. 

The ideal candidate will learn rapidly and eagerly, contribute effectively outside of your domain, be an enthusiastic and eager coach, and want to develop the bench strength for the long-term health of the enterprise. They will be able to make effective and tactical decisions under general direction, communicate clearly, positively, and productively, and be able to control processes effectively and drive compliance professionally and collegially. 

Main Responsibilities

Regional Commercial and operational co-ordination

• Work with the Regional Consulting Head to manage toward regional Consulting revenue and margin targets.
• Actively monitor and report on the business pipeline and other key metrics to drive performance and inform decision-making.
• Help Regional Consulting Head drive and coordinate business development activity across the region and globally, including week-to-week regional pipeline management, global pipeline coordination, and longer-term account and offering planning.
• Input into global and regional growth strategy and communicate strategic direction across the team.
• Own the overall regional Consulting resource plan and process. Closely monitor utilization and capacity metrics to determine where resources across the business can be leveraged and where hires are needed.  Manage and monitor resource allocation to balance use of regional resources, global consulting resources, research resources, and associates. 

Growth of Talent in region

• Own the Regional RCG / Early careers strategy and implementation, aligning with the global strategy and best practice.
• Co-ordinate the recruitment process, working with HR to ensure we onboard a diverse and highly qualified team.
• Drive great people-development practices across the regional team and ensure coordination across regions. Own the performance management process, including objective setting, annual reviews, project feedback, evaluation criteria, and the L&D program. Manage performance management and reg