Oil, Gas & Chemicals Operations - Oil & Gas Sector - Senior Manager- Consulting

Company: Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd
Location: Houston
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content LinkLocation: HoustonOther locations: Anywhere in RegionDate: May 29, 2025Requisition ID: 1611727Location: Houston, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Oklahoma City


At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence.We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.Oil, Gas & Chemicals Operations - Oil & Gas Sector - Senior Manager- ConsultingThe energy industry is facing unprecedented challenges through volatile energy prices, decarbonization, technological advances, changes to the geopolitical landscape and supply and demand fluctuations. This creates an opportunity for the sector to pivot to a long-term strategy that helps address these challenges through an increased adoption of digital tools and capabilities and increased discipline in reducing operational costs and emissions while maintaining revenues and margins. As a result, our clients are investing across the board - from refreshing their operational strategy to implementing solutions that can scale across their enterprise.The opportunityRecognizing the need of our clients, we have formulated a digital operations team at the cross section of our supply chain and operations competency and energy sector. You will be working as a part of this team and responsible for helping develop our strategy, approach, solution options and value proposition for our upstream energy clients. This is a high-profile position that will work with Energy leaders and client serving teams across many EY practices.Your key responsibilitiesAs a part of this role, you will be responsible for:
Client Delivery
As Energy companies explore opportunities to optimize their operational efficiency, you will help our clients understand areas to achieve operational excellence by examining their processes and tools including emissions reporting, exploration, drilling and completions, production, HSSE, accounting, reliability and engineering and examining operational KPI's that drive costs and revenue. You will help our clients by crafting a strategy in line with their long-term goals or by implementing innovative and data driven digital solutions to drive speed to value. You will work as a part of cross competency teams within EY to bring the greatest value for our clients. You will craft and manage commercially viable engagements for EY.
Business DevelopmentThe purpose of this role is to help position EY for growth within the Oil, Gas & Chemicals operations sector in this rapidly changing market. You will help to support this capability within our digital operations team, help author thought leadership material, help develop our 'Go to Market' strategy, and develop sales collateral and solution materials to position EY in the market. You will learn about the various competencies and capabilities within EY. You will play an active role in the delivery lifecycle of engagements.
Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge in your functional area of supply chain. Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new processes and uncover new offering that may assist current customer base.
• Provide mentoring and motivate diverse client engagement teams by delivering constructive on-the-job coaching to team members, while fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Drive high-quality work within expected timeframes and on budget.Monitor progress,manage risk and ensure clients are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Build relationships with client personnel and deliver quality client services. Strive to assist our clients uncover additional areas of opportunity and manage the business development process.
• Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess what the firm can deliver to serve clients.
  To qualify for theroleyou must have
  • Bachelor's and/or master's degree in Engineering/ Business/ Technology
  • A minimum of 8 years ofOperations functional experience in oil, gas and/or chemicals operations
  • Proficiency in using upstream oil and gas software and systems
  • Strong knowledge of oil, gas and/or chemicals technologies, equipment, and industry standards
  • Familiar with oil, gas and/or chemicals facility operations and maintenance
  • Knowledge of safety protocols and regulatory compliance in upstream operations
  • Demonstrated results in improving the profitability of oil, gas and/or chemicals operations using digital tools
  • Strategic thinking and solutioning skills to craft a strong value proposition
  • Strong understanding of current solutions in the market and ability to craft a specific point of view for our clients
  • A keen appetite for technology and innovation while having a technology agnostic perspective
  • Strong collaboration and teaming skills
  • Curious mindset and desire to learn and grow
  • Highly seasoned project management skills and ability to complete multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to influence at all levels of the organization, sometimes without authority
  • Strong executive facilitation skills related to strategy development and problem solving
  • Exceptional written and oral communications skills (including presentations), as well as listening and interpretation skills
  • Willingness to go out of your comfort zone to break new grounds and explore part of your Industry Market with which you are not most familiar
    Ideally, you'll also have
    • A bachelor's degree, a master's degree focusing on engineering, supply chain, and/ or business
    • Prior consulting experience and/or industry experience where you have actively driven improvements in optimizing profitability and/or reliability and can translate that to digital use cases
    • Ability to develop a book of business and lead in the client proposal process
      What we look forWe are looking for people that are passionate consultants, at the top of their game, but who would like to continue to grow their subject matter expertise and help others around them achieve their potential.If you have a passion for assisting businesses achieve their full potential and working with some of the highest performing teams, this role might very well be for you.
      We also look for individuals who can excel at:
      • Fostering relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels. Consistently delivering quality client services.
      • Driving high- quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget.
      • Monitoring progress, managing risk and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
      • Managing expectations of client service delivery.
      • Staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business
      • Effectively managing and motivating client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds. Providing constructive on- the- job feedback/coaching to team members.
      • Fostering an innovative and inclusive team- oriented work environment. Playing an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization
      • Cultivating and managing business development opportunities. Developing and maintaining long- term client relationships and networks.What we offer you
        At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learnmore .
        • We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $148,900 to $340,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $178,700 to $386,600. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
        • Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
        • Under our flexible vacation policy, you'll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You'll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
          EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis.For those living in California, please click here for additional information.EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.EY - Building a better working worldEY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information,national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY's Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com .Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.
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