Service line - Position Title: Business Consulting - Manager-Oil and gas downstream
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Business Consultant to join the EY GDS Consulting Oil & Gas team. As part of EY Consulting, you will lead strategic engagements for downstream oil & gas clients, focusing on operational excellence, digital transformation, strategy and optimization of business process. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, gaining exposure to both the business requirements and the technology that enables them. You will leverage deep industry expertise and advanced technologies to deliver data-driven insights, process improvements, and sustainable value creation.
Your Key Responsibilities
Leadership:
- Lead and deliver consulting engagements across the downstream oil & gas value chain.
- Engage with clients across global geographies, collaborate with EY member firms and internal subject-matter experts, and maintain high-quality stakeholder relationships.
Strategy:
- Develop and present strategic roadmaps for digital transformation of downstream oil and gas business
- Define and document new processes, ensuring alignment between business requirements and technology solutions.
- Leverage data, analytics, IoT, AI/ML, cloud platforms and digital twins to generate insights, improve decision-making and operational performance for oil and gas downstream clients
Consulting:
- Work closely with internal teams and client stakeholders to ensure timely delivery and value creation
- Mentor and manage consulting teams, build capability within the team, ensure delivery excellence and knowledge transfer.
- Facilitate organizational change management for digital adoption and capability building.
- Contribute to EY's Energy Consulting practice through whitepapers, client workshops, and solution development.
Business Development:
- Be responsible for managing downstream Oil and Gas client account(s)
and stakeholders across a portfolio of business opportunities and projects
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities, leveraging your network and market insights to drive growth.
- Shape compelling proposals and thought leadership, positioning the firm as a partner of choice for strategic transformation.
- Meet individual and team sales and revenue targets.
Skills and attributes for success
Must have
- Bachelors degree in engineering (Chemical or equivalent)
- Approximately 813 years of total experience, with a blend of downstream oil & gas industry experience and robust consulting experience.
- Expertise in downstream oil and gas sector preferably in refinery and petrochemicals industry. Industry experience in LNG/Gas Plant experience will be added advantage
- Extensive knowledge of downstream oil and gas value chains, business models, business processes, capabilities and technology solutions & vendors (Aspentech, Aveva, Honeywell etc.)
- Prior working experience in digital transformation for oil & gas business including exposure to IT/OT architecture and framework
- Familiarity with process simulation, process optimization, asset performance management tools will be added advantage.
- Experience working with clients to create business and technology strategies, solutions and delivery roadmaps
- Experience leading business and technology enabled transformation projects within Oil and Gas
- Proven track record in project delivery, with the ability to deliver high-quality outcomes under tight deadlines.
- Strong client and relationship network within the Oil and Gas Industry, and experience developing and owning relationships across the market
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, bringing teams together to achieve common goals in complex environments.
- Extensive experience managing teams and mentoring talent, contributing to practice growth and capability building.
Good to have
- Masters degree (MBA or related).
- Experience working with global consulting firms or energy-focused advisory teams.
📌 BC Sector O and G - Downstream - Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 EY
📍 Bengaluru