We are looking for a Principal consultant to lead business development and our strategy services for our Management Consulting (MC) team in Singapore, focusing on the energy sector and the energy transition, with opportunity to also support our bioindustry services. The role will focus on Singapore clients and market but will also work collaboratively with our global Management Consulting offices, as well as AFRY’s other divisions, in the APAC region.
Responsibilities
Your scope of work will include the following:
- Overall leadership of our Management Consulting (MC) operations in Singapore and with Singapore clients, with focus on strategy services for the energy sector and the energy transition (and possibly also the bioindustry sector). Essential responsibilities include proactive marketing and business development, developing capabilities, project supervision and/or management, reporting, supervising and mentoring junior team members and ensuring their utilisation levels, quality control, and customer satisfaction.
- Active business development of MC services to Singapore-based clients and international clients interested in the Singapore market, with focus on Strategy services. MC services include: market analysis, power market modelling, market price projections; transaction services (especially market and commercial due diligence); energy transition advisory/strategy and corporate decarbonisation advisory/strategy from market and commercial perspectives; economic, techno-economic, and financial modelling; electricity market design; renewable energy procurement as well as portfolio analysis and optimisation; and similar.
- Development of thought leadership materials and presentations.
- Collaborating with other AFRY units as appropriate and representing MC’s capabilities and potential contributions in multi-disciplinary and multi-department projects such as waste to energy, gas/LNG-fired power plants, CCS, green hydrogen/ammonia, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), biomass to power, transmission and interconnectors, data centres, and nuclear power.
- Acting as Project Manager or Project Director (depending on the project) for selected MC projects for clients in Singapore or focusing on Singapore.
- Acting as Project Manager or Project Director (depending on the project) for selected Strategy projects that may focus on other countries in the region – as appropriate.
- Line management of the Singapore MC team and Strategy-focused staff (typically 2-5 direct reports total) including setting their individual annual objectives, evaluating their performance, and ensuring their utilisation levels; as well as recruitment of MC team members in Singapore and/or those focusing on Strategy projects in Singapore or other offices in APAC.
- Coordinating resources for larger multi-disciplinary projects driven or owned by MC, from among 500+ energy focused staff in the Asia region (inside and outside of MC), as well as coordination with AFRY specialists in other offices around the world.
- Preparation of reports for the clients as required and quality control for the internal report preparation process.
- Ensure the application of AFRY’s group guidelines and other internal and external policies in order to guarantee a sustainable and compliant conduct of business.
- Leading by example to promote AFRY’s values including acting as a “Brave, Devoted, Team Player”.
- Short term travel expected in projects and to support business development in Singapore and possibly the broader APAC region.