Strategy Planning & Optimization Lead - APAC

Job Summary

With a focus on utility industries such as Power, Oil & Gas, Data Infrastructure and Water as well as other resource-intensive sectors, Black & Veatch’s Infrastructure Advisory group provides a range of holistic strategic, process, financial and technology solutions. Black & Veatch brings together combined expertise in advanced analytics and practical business experience with extensive organizational, technology and engineering capabilities. Throughout the world, we deliver solutions that work best for the program needs, organization, assets and customers.

Our professionals improve organizational effectiveness, and reduce risks and costs by enabling our clients to adopt and operationalize new technologies and approaches. We help justify and fund major improvements to your utility network and assets. We help you achieve a clear, systematic approach to managing risks. And worldwide, we work with executive leadership teams to identify and design business-case solutions to some of our world’s most transformational initiatives solving energy, water, decarbonization and other finite resource challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Principal Consultant/Managing Director:

• Lead targets and business for Strategy Planning & Optimization Solution (SPO) in the region
• Work with the regional and global leadership in expanding SPO solution business in the region
• Plan and execute Go to Market strategy including roadshows for the target markets for SPO offerings
• Actively engage in thought leadership on relevant subjects
• Acting as Project Director of consulting mandates for infrastructure advisory team
• Leading solution development with support from project managers
• Client management
• Quality control on key deliverables for Strategy Planning & Optimization advisory mandates
• Guiding Project Manager during project execution
• During sales and pre-sales, oversee scoping, effort estimation, pricing, schedule and proposal development

Consulting Capability:

• Transfers knowledge, capabilities, and skills to improve others’ knowledge and skill levels
• Enhances established working relationships with team members and management from within the client’s organization
• Contributes to quality review on own engagement
• Ascertains and meets client expectations within scope of engagement role
• Develops applicable knowledge bases by using best practices to redefine tools and techniques. Outlines specific performance measures, targets, and goals to articulate the business case for realized efficiencies or added value
• Challenges client’s current strategy and direction through persuasive argument. Defines competitive advantage and achievable value to the client through use of the strategic change components and metrics. Formulates issue-based hypotheses and develops analytical plan for testing. Contributes to analysis of impact of strategic changes by defining linkages and interdependencies.

Industry knowledge capability:

• Applies appropriate methods or recognized equivalent to identified client needs
• Anticipates and resolves technical problems with occasional technical assistance from others
• Develops, presents, and defends conclusions, recommendations, and implementation plans
• Contributes to quality reviews of assigned engagements
• Identifies technical issues impacting an engagement and proposes solutions
• Analyzes and applies best practices knowledge of the industry

Management Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• 15–20 years of overall professional experience, with at least 3 years leading strategic advisory projects in the capacity of Project Director or equivalent
• Proven experience in leading a strategic advisory or consulting business at a regional level
• Minimum 70% of total experience in the power, energy, and water sectorsDemonstrated leadership in solutioning and delivery of complex advisory engagements, including:

  • Decarbonization initiatives
  • Business case development
  • Market entry studies
  • Strategic road mapping
  • Net‑zero strategy formulation
  • Policy review and advocacy

  Exposure to working across multiple Southeast Asian countries, particularly the Philippines and Indonesia, is an added advantage

  Established relationships at leadership level with large energy utilities in Southeast Asia are highly desirable

  Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required; postgraduate qualification in Business Management is highly desirable

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