EY Supply Chain Operations - Upstream Oil Gas 

United States, Texas, Houston 

293934007

Your key responsibilities

As 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 lead cross competency teams within EY to bring the greatest value for our clients. You will craft and manage commercially viable engagements for EY.

Business Development

• The purpose of this role is to help position EY for growth within the Upstream operations sector in this rapidly changing market. You will help to develop the upstream operations capability within our digital operations team, help author thought leadership material, help develop our ‘Go to Market’ strategy, 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 sales to 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 the role you must have

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Engineering/ Business/ Technology
• A minimum of 8 years of Upstream Operations functional experience in drilling, completions, or production operations
• Proficiency in using upstream oil and gas software and systems
• Strong knowledge of drilling/completions/production technologies, equipment, and industry standards
• Familiarity with upstream oil and gas facility operations and maintenance
• Knowledge of safety protocols and regulatory compliance in upstream operations
• Demonstrated results in improving the profitability of oil and gas operations and fields 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

• Broad understanding of upstream operations and maintenance tools such as Petrel E&P Platform, Techlog Wellbore Software Platform, WellView, DecisionSpace, GeoGraphix, Enertia, Aveva PI, Primavera, and ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle etc.

• Approximately 4 years of recent supply chain consulting experience, focusing on the oil and gas industry
• Ability to develop a book of business and lead in the client proposal process

What we look for

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.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.