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.
The Strategy team leads the development of our corporate and business strategies, working across business lines, sectors, and functions to achieve Worley’s wealth creation and sustainability goals. 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 and is comprised of experienced strategy and consulting professionals.
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 based in India.
This role will require both people management as well as individual contribution. In this role, you will be responsible and accountable for conducting research, analyzing data, 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 need to conduct analyses and drive projects with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities:
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 insights
- Set up, improve and drive processes for ongoing collection of data and ensure analyses of macro trends, market, customer, and competitor intelligence remain evergreen. A small research team of 3 staff exists to support this function.
- Execute and deliver on key market analyses including, but not limited to, growth projections and trends, supply and demand, cost curves, competitor and customer analyses in those markets, levelized costs, 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 policies, incentives, and disincentives); customers; current and potential competitors.
- Translate the 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 the development of strategy-focused deliverables for external communications.
Drive strategy development:
- Work seamlessly within the Group Strategy team to evaluate Where to Play, How to Play, and How to Win to drive superior wealth creation.
- 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 networks 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:
- Coach, mentor, and manage a small team of strategy and research professionals based out of India
- Live and exhibit Worley’s leadership Values, Leadership Principles and Behaviors
- 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.
Competencies and behaviors:
- Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly yet critically, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
- Strong analytical, and 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, modeling, and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:
- Markets analysis and sizing (e.g., supply and demand, customer, competitor, profit pools, value chains analysis)
- Advanced economics analysis (e.g., cost curve development, financial valuation)
- Portfolio review (e.g. where to invest, where to divest)
- Forecasting / econometrics
- Impact of tax and economic incentives on business activities
- 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
- Ability to work within the environment of change and define 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.
- 5+ years experience in strategy consulting professional services firm
- 4+ years of working experience in Energy, Chemicals, and/or Resources sectors
- Graduate degree in a related subject – e.g. Business, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, etc.
- MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred
- Expert in Microsoft Excel (including financial modeling), PowerPoint, Word, and Power BI
- Experience with presenting to groups, including senior leaders, with confidence and poise
Other Requirements:
- Flexibility in work hours 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.
