Job Description

Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Research

Wood Mackenzie’s research groups provides integrated subscription, research and advisory services to inform and support our client’s commercial and strategic decisions in the complex and rapidly changing energy industry across all sectors of the economy.

Combining our deep knowledge of solar, wind, storage, and grid technologies, combined with our global power and fuels modeling and analytical capabilities, and emerging technologies like hydrogen and CCUS, Wood Mackenzie can provide data and insight spanning the entire energy value chain. We cover supply chain, technology costs, policy and market issues, fundamentals-based outlooks, scenario modelling, price forecasting, asset valuation, and commodity market landscapes.

Team Profile

This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS research team, in the Carbon Management division. This is an excellent opportunity to join a strong, global team and make a major contribution to the energy transition at a global scale.

The Carbon Management division is the nexus of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition research, drawing upon multiple commodity areas. The group’s work helps our clients understand market trends across the several of the critical technologies enabling the energy transition. Coverage spans emissions, carbon markets, CCUS, abatement technologies, and scenario modelling.

Carbon Management and the CCUS team within it are both growing quickly as we help to drive the pace and scale of the energy transition and to serve different customer segments with integrated analysis.

In the CCUS team we build cost and asset models, interpret policies, track market activity, assess new technologies and build deployment forecasts. We are also launching a new “Lens CCUS” analytics platform to help our customers make the best-informed decisions in this market.

Our clients are responsible for the success of their firms’ technology roadmaps, competitive positioning, product marketing, and go-to market strategies.

Key internal collaborations within Wood Mackenzie are with our expert groups on subsurface CO2 storage, carbon markets, hydrogen and industries to which CCUS is a potential abatement technology (upstream, LNG, refining, chemicals, power, and metals).

Role Purpose

This role will be responsible for covering the CCUS market in the North America region. It is also important to bring strong global context to regional discussions, and you will work closely with the global CCUS team members to develop our global views. There will be one or more categories of broad CCUS research, such as areas of policy, technology, or economics where you will be expected to spearhead Wood Mackenzie’s research efforts on a global scale.

You will update and develop Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary datasets on CCUS. And together with our Data and Product teams you will contribute new views, insights and analytics as the market grows.

You will be responsible for economic modelling of CCUS projects, feeding into our new Lens CCUS Valuations Service. This will involve understanding project costs, business models, revenue structures and fiscal terms. You will analyse and communicate qualitative and quantitative drivers for the strengths and weaknesses of each project.

You will become a go-to person within Wood Mackenzie to support internal stakeholders as they translate intelligence on the CCUS and carbon market to each of their business lines. You will integrate your analysis with the rest of the team deliverables, including insights on topics such as regional activity, technology development and policy evolution. You may also contribute to bespoke consulting projects on CCUS market activity.

Importantly, you will develop your own relationships with industry, financial, and government partners. This will be to establish a knowledge base to test assumptions on project and market specifics, as well as to represent Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS research in a high-quality way to customers.

Main Responsibilities

• Produce regular written reports and insights on the changing way CCUS and other Carbon Removal mechanisms impact the Energy Transition
• Own and develop cash-flow analyses and written content for individual CCUS projects (clusters, hubs, individual projects), with a focus on the North America region.
• Work with the Modelling Centre of Excellence to translate fiscal and subsidy terms relevant to each market where carbon capture, use and storage projects operate or are planned.
• Present findings in market reports, industry insight pieces and in person via conference calls, webinars and conferences.
• Build a strong relationship with industry stakeholders in the CCUS space across North America.
• Conduct high-quality primary research with project developers, governments and investors on projects, costs, policy updates and market evolution.
• Strengthen the CCUS data apparatus through surveys, interviews, and secondary research. Refresh the analytical models with updated data on a regular basis.
• Provide high-quality client service to research subscribers through responding to inquiries, one-on-one conversations, and special events.
• Collaborate with SMEs and internal stakeholders across Wood Mackenzie to support the creation of our content.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable achievement and growth in past academic and/or professional endeavors
• Knowledgeable and experienced in financial modelling of energy-related assets
• 3+ years or distinguishing previous experience in carbon management, CCUS or CCUS-related sectors (e.g. oil and gas, power, chemicals, steel, hydrogen, cement),project development, project and energy economics, energy policy research, and energy transition technologies and initiatives
• Familiar with policy landscape as it impacts the energy transition
• Familiar with energy demand, technology adoption and technology cost modelling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Interested in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer market questions.
• Self-driven. Capable of switching between the roles of an individual contributor and a collaborator.
• Strong communication skills. Comfortable interacting with clients and industry stakeholders.
• Capable of managing ambiguity; able to synthesize complexity into key themes and insights by being resourceful and persistent.
• An engaging nature, capable of connecting with co-workers, clients and industry stakeholders in a wide range of professional settings around the globe.

Passionate, with a deep intellectual curiosity, about the energy transition. Specifically, the impact of carbon capture and removal capability amid a wider, global business and policy landscape

Key Competencies

• Issue identification and problem-solving
• Building analytical models, manipulating and illustrating data.
• Planning, implementation
• Efficiency-focused
• Determined and resilient
• Continuous improvement
• Creativity
• Curiosity
• Orientation to detail
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Communication
• Personal impact
• Collaboration

Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.

Wood Mackenzie values each individual's contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.

Our core values are:

• Respect for the Individual
• Integrity
• Passion
• Persistence
• Confidence with humility
• Excellence
• Teamwork

We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.

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