Wood is looking for an experienced Practice Lead to head up the Global Strategy & Transformation Practice within our Digital Advisory business, a key part of our holistic Consulting offering. Digital Advisory helps clients develop, de-risk and sustain value from strategic transformation initiatives through pragmatic, operationally literate digitalization, asset management and operations excellence advisory services & tools. We focus on the full asset lifecycle: leveraging digital to optimize CAPEX, plan early for digital to achieve value in OPEX, and apply digital to optimize OPEX.
We are looking for motivated, growth-focused individuals who thrive on working closely with clients and our best global business, who are digital and domain experts in asset intensive industries, possess outstanding stakeholder engagement and change management skills, and hold and nourish multi-tiered client relationships, to help our clients realize value from digitalization and digital-led decarbonization in the energy, materials and life science sectors.
The ideal candidate has a broad geographical and multi sector experience, combined with industry and domain credibility, working with multiple stakeholders to achieve tangible results. The role requires being able to readily engage with clients to understand their problems and – through the application of Design Thinking principles and Wood’s deep domain expertise, combined with a clear understanding of today’s digital and technology landscape – show how Wood can solve these problems to drive sustainable client value. The role will be the voice of the client and a constant advocate for Wood.
This candidate will be responsible for the operational leadership of the global team, including project execution and resourcing, whilst playing a key and significant role in business acquisition together with the Digital Technology and Growth & Development groups at Wood. Our ideal candidate is self-driven and with a demonstrated track record of winning work for themselves and their teams, across a wide client portfolio.
The individual will manage communication upwards in the organization, with other key stakeholders across both Wood and its Partners, and the sales and marketing teams to share the vision and roadmap for the Strategy & Transformation group. The role will be responsible for collecting and prioritizing business and market requirements, communicating with domain experts, technology owners / partners and with an input into the wider Consulting strategy.
The ideal candidate should have previous experience with delivering digitalization strategies and/or operational excellence outcomes for clients in asset-intensive industries, preferably for multiple sectors and numerous geographic regions, with the goal of enabling sustainable energy transition and decarbonization outcomes for both new and existing assets.
In-depth knowledge of the market, market trends, technology landscape, organizational transformation approaches, and change management techniques are key skills. The ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of client organizations, to communicate with potential customers regarding their assets/systems/processes and how our services, combined with partner offerings, would deliver value to them, are essential requirements of this role.