Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables, energy, and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an ever-changing world, companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience. Our team of over 2,400 experts, operating across 30 global locations, are enabling customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.
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About Carbon management team:
Wood Mackenzie’s Carbon Management group enables clients across the energy, manufacturing, and natural resources sectors to understand and respond to market and portfolio-related climate risks and opportunities by providing comprehensive, decision-useful data and analytics.
Carbon Management has three discipline groups: CCUS, Emissions, and Carbon Markets. These roles will serve as part of the carbon management group.
In the CCUS group we build cost and valuation models, interpret policies, track market activity, evaluate technologies and build demand-supply forecasts.
As part of the Lens Carbon service launch and expansion, we are now recruiting Research Analyst. This role is to be based in Wood Mackenzie’s China Beijing office.
Job description
The CCUS team within the carbon team is growing quickly as we help to drive the pace and scale of the energy transition, serving different customer segments with integrated analysis. In the Carbon team, we model CCUS opportunities across different sectors, including oil and gas, metals and mining commodities, and power, to name a few.
We support clients across the energy value chain to understand and respond to the market for CCUS-linked risk mapping and opportunities by providing comprehensive, decision-useful carbon data and analytics. Our services include tracking and forecasting 10-year and 25-year outlooks, detailed economic valuations and reports of individual projects, project data tracking for more than 50 variables on over 1000 projects, policy tracking, quarterly market insights, and analytics.
Role purpose:
You will work with our global CCUS research team members to provide an assessment of CCUS applications in key hard-to-abate sectors . He/She/We will also work to track and calibrate data and research, ensuring we remain at the leading edge of this critical analysis. You will also support research relating to asset and company valuations. The project data and valuations are part of numerous other tools and services; as such, you will also become a go-to person to support stakeholders from related functions such as our data and product teams.
You will also track policy updates, regulations and come up with quick assessments to understand impact on stakeholder and/or key players. You will play a lead role in enhancing our China coverage on research, projects and valuations.
You will be expected to develop relationships with industry partners. Through your research and industry engagement, you will establish a knowledge base to test assumptions on methodologies and represent Wood Mackenzie’s research in a high-quality way to clients.
Main responsibilities:
The Senior Consultant is expected to:
Contribute to regular written reports and insights on the changing way CCUS and other Carbon Removal mechanisms impact the Energy Transition
Provide underpinning research for market reports, industry insight pieces and industry presentations, with a career path towards delivering your own presentations.
Conduct high-quality primary research with project developers, governments and investors on projects, costs, policy updates and market evolution.
Support and inform cash-flow analyses and written content for individual CCUS projects (clusters, hubs, individual projects)
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.
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.
Support in the modelling of WoodMac’s CCUS demand potential and supply forecast for 10 and 25 years, in collaboration with other sectoral experts in the Energy transition team, and ensure high quality data and framework alignment.
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Knowledge and Experience
1-2+ 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 is an asset
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.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov
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