Senior Manager, Strategic Development

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.?

Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

Company description

Worley is a global provider of professional project and asset services in the energy, chemicals, and resources sectors. We have 50,000 of the world's brightest minds in energy, chemicals and resources, all working to deliver a more sustainable world.

We deliver projects and provide engineering, procurement and construction expertise to the upstream, midstream, chemicals, power, and mining and minerals sectors. Thanks to our range of services and the scope of our expertise, we work with our customers at every stage of their project: from initial concepts to sustaining and enhancing their assets.

Context

The Strategy team leads development of our corporate and business strategies, working across business lines, sectors, and functions. Tasked with ensuring the strategy architecture is implemented across the business, this team also stewards the actions required to achieve the overall strategic intent. The team is small but high-impact (including 5 McKinsey and Deloitte consulting alumni on the team)

Overview of the role

Worley's success is due in large part to our strategic planning and execution. We are looking to strengthen our strategic capabilities across strategy and management consulting spheres. As a result, we are looking for highly analytical and creative thinkers to join our Strategy team.

In this role, you will be responsible for conducting research, analyzing data, and developing proprietary insights, and crafting recommendations to support the strategic decision-making of the company. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to drive change and execution of strategy. You will also need to conduct analyses and drive projects with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

The Group Strategy team undertakes a range of high visibility and high impact initiatives that drive wealth creation for the enterprise. The team operates as an internal "strategy consulting" function, working closely together in quick iterations to develop answers to challenging and ambiguous problems.

Market analysis and insight

• Execute and deliver on key market analyses including, but not limited to, growth projections and trends, supply and demand, cost curves, and economic and financial analysis and modelling.

• Perform thorough, systematic analysis of key industry trends; the general social economic and political environment; legal and regulatory issues (including incentives); customers; current and potential competitors.

• Translate information and analyses above into proprietary / actionable insights and sound recommendations to inform senior leadership's strategic business decisions

• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of designated markets and trends through reading reports, market research, data manipulation and financial modeling and analysis.

• Support development of strategy-focused deliverables for external communications.

• Drive processes for ongoing collection of data and ensure analyses of macro trends, market, customer, and competitor intelligence remain ever green.

Drive strategy development

• Work with the Group Strategy team to evaluate Where to Play and How to Play and How to Win

• Supply the market and competitive intelligence component of strategic planning, and proactively making recommendations concerning key intelligence items that require further consideration.

• Interface between Operations, Sales, Marketing, Sectors, and other functions to ensure alignment between formulation and execution of strategies

• Working with internal strategy network to enhance their use of strategic analysis and market and competitor intelligence.

Strategy / internal consulting projects

Support the Group Strategy team through leading a range of strategy projects, including:

• portfolio analysis

• market landscaping and segmentation

• competitor profiling and acquisition target prioritization

• strategic capability assessment

• commercial analysis (sales, go-to-market, pricing etc)

• digital and technology development

• Frame, scope and analyze strategic problems and recommend best courses of action

• Generate strategy collateral necessary for key decision-making activities (e.g. strategy sessions, investor days, corporate reporting, budget planning).

• Undertake ad hoc projects requested by the CEO or Board.

Contribute to a progressive Way of Working and a high performing team

• Contribute to a positive working environment where people are motivated to do their best to help the business achieve its objectives.

Identify opportunities for improvements and challenge the status quo and others to innovate and make a real difference.

• Promote agile and collaborative work environment leveraging data-centric approach and digital technology.

• Promote a curious mindset and facilitate the introduction of new concepts and technologies.

Requirements

Competencies and behaviors

• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly yet critically, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks

• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and good business acumen.

• Strong knowledge of and experience with common strategy methodologies and analyses

• Capable of executing a wide range of data, modelling and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:

• Market sizing

• Competitive analysis

• Cost curve development

• Profit pool analysis

• Supply and demand analysis

• Financial modeling and valuation

• Portfolio review (e.g. where to invest, where to divest)

• Forecasting / econometrics

• Impact of tax and economic incentives on business activities

• Customer needs analysis / primary research

• Able to synthesize large amounts of information from diverse sources to identify trends and issues, recommend solutions proactively, and apply problem-solving and analytical expertise

• Comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently, balancing priorities

• Experience with industry research tools such as Rystad, Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, etc.

• High emotional intelligence with strong verbal and written communication skills, including story lining and laying out high quality collateral

• Good understanding of the Worley's customers, market subsectors and competitors

• Live and breath the Worley values and leadership principles

• Ability to work within environment of change and defining direction within that context. Adept at navigating ambiguity to facilitate outcomes

• Resourceful at finding data and information to feed analyses.

• Comfortable communicating with, and presenting to, personnel at all levels from front-line personnel to senior leaders.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience in strategy consulting professional services firm

• Working experience in Energy, Chemicals and/or Resources sectors

• University/Bachelor's degree in a related subject - e.g. Business, Finance, Economics, Mathematics etc.

• MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred

• Expert in Microsoft Excel (including financial modelling), PowerPoint and Word

• Experience with presenting to groups, including senior leaders, with confidence and poise

Other Requirements:

• Flexibility is needed in order to connect and work with others across multiple time zones and cultures, given we are a distributed global business

• Some overtime may be required to meet deadlines

• Minimal travel may be required

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.