Consulting - CIPS - Oil & Gas - Director

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Advisory

Specialism
Operations Strategy

Management Level
Director

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Management Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

As a member of our team, you'll help the world's most significant organisations, public and private, quickly become more effective. We improve the way they operate; manage costs; better align people, process and technology initiatives; support business growth to maintain or improve competitive edge and complete market and regulatory risk assessment. In doing so, we focus on their agendas and the big issues they need to deal with, both today and in the future.

Line of Service Overview

In Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best across industry and professional functional advisory services. We focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational deep industry expertise. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. Our Consulting practice currently focuses on several core sectors including Consumer and Industrial Products & Services, Energy, Utilities & Mining (CIPSEUM), Financial Services, Government, Health Industries, Finance Function, People and Organisations and Technology.

Business Unit Overview

Globalisation and the need for a secure, affordable energy & resources' availability go hand-in-hand. Economic development is dependent on sufficient sources of energy-oil, gas, electricity, coal, alternative fuels and others. World is the middle of a changing energy landscape, both in terms of demand and supply, which has posed a challenge to our clients in the region. The team in Middle East work with governments and private clients to solve such important business problems and create value in challenging business environment and marketing conditions. We focus primarily on industries like Oil & Gas, Mining, Oil Field Services and Petrochemical.  

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a passionate industry team, to continue developing yourself as an industry expert and to build further key contacts within the industry in the region.

Responsibilities

- Lead cross functional internal and client teams to develop and deliver operational strategies in Oil & Gas sectors.
- Develop winning proposals and lead business development activities through building strong relations with our clients in the Middle East.
- Mentor junior members of the team in order to foster a high performance team environment.
- Whilst working in the Oil & Gas Industries team you will develop your understanding of the key themes in the market and in the region. You will work collaboratively with other Industry experts in the region and globally to shape the future of our clients and to bring about positive change.
- Develop yourself personally, taking a keen interest in trends in the global industry and the impact on our clients so you can help shape their thinking and our success in the market.

Requirements

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a top tier university. Master's degree will be preferred but is not essential
- At least 10+ years of relevant experience with a management consulting firm. Project experience with Oil & Gas clients is essential.
- In-depth understanding of understanding of overall landscape and value-chain of extended Oil & Gas industry
- Strong interest in the latest developments in the Oil & Gas and wider Energy industry
- Excellent project management and organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
- Experience in / understanding of data collection, data management and analytics, information management. Expertise in VBA and other excel based programming languages is desirable
- Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).  Fluent in English but multilingual Arabic speaker preferable.
- The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East and worldwide where the project dictates.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.