About the Job
The Consultant role is instrumental in executing Nexant’s single client engagements, while providing support to our subscription offerings. As a more experienced individual on our staff, the Consultant both guides more junior staff, and performs their own work in terms of collecting information, analyzing for trends and key findings, and preparing text or PowerPoint sections for incorporation into Reports. Recognizing their project management responsibilities, a Consultant should have excellent organizational skills and be good at communicating and guiding others. A Consultant typically manages and/or works on a few projects at one time, thereby necessitating excellent ability to multi-task, work with minimum supervision, exercise good judgment and communicate with a wide variety of colleagues. Additionally, a Consultant supports the group’s overall sales effort through proposal and prospectus preparation, negotiation, and other client interfacing activities.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Participation as a core member of engagement teams, with a focus on study execution
- Support Nexant’s marketing efforts for consulting services to North American and Latin clients
- Develop and/or maintain familiarity with selected segments of the industry, including renewables, refining, gas processing, links to petrochemicals
- Interact with and support other Nexant consulting offices and project teams
- Liaise with clients to manage project deliverables
- Help maintain and extend Nexant’s recognized brand leadership in industry-focused consultancy covering commercial, techno-economic and strategic analysis. Typically, this is achieved through preparation of conference papers, and press articles as well as personal relationships
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Primary degree in a subject relevant to the Energy and Chemical Industries, generally Chemical Engineering, but also chemistry/biochemistry
- Relevant higher degree is a plus (Masters, PhD, MBA)
- 5-10 years of industry experience with a specific technical and/or commercial focus in the hydrocarbon processing, chemicals or renewables industries
- Working experience with an industry company, with time at a top industry or management consultancy a major plus
- Knowledge of process simulation (e.g. using Aspen Plus) a plus
- International experience is a plus
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills for interacting with clients
- Positive and flexible attitude
- Diplomatic in meeting and working with people, good cultural awareness
- Flexible and willing to work extra hours as necessary to accommodate busy work loads
- Must be able to travel locally and domestically with overnight stay for up to approximately 20% of the time.
About Nexant E&CA
Nexant’s Energy and Chemical Advisory (E&CA) Business Unit is an independent global consulting firm that provides advisory services to the energy and chemicals sector. Nexant’s experience covers all market and techno-economic aspects of refinery, petrochemical, polymer, and biorenewable businesses. Nexant's key consulting offices are located in White Plains, San Francisco, London, Bahrain, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai.
Nexant offers consulting services in the following areas:
- Strategy Assistance: Entry or exit strategies, growth or diversification strategies and general planning and organizational advisory services
- M&A Assistance: Including due diligence, asset evaluation and valuation support
- Master Planning and Feasibility Appraisal: Covering independent evaluation of small, medium and large scale investment projects
- Technical Reviews: As advisors to sponsors for performance improvement, or lenders for Project Finance and M&A
- Project Evaluation & Financing: During the past few years Nexant has provided Independent Consultancy to the sponsors and/or lenders for over $100 billion of investment projects that have been successfully implemented
- Market Assessments: Analysis of supply, demand, and trade for all major products in the sector and many specialties, including market drivers and cost competitiveness.
Salary and Benefits (U.S.)
Nexant offers competitive salaries based on candidate's qualifications. Nexant also offers three weeks paid vacation per year, eleven paid holidays per year, a 401(k) plan with employee matching funds and an overall comprehensive benefits package.
Nexant, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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