Operations Strategy Consultant

As an Operations Strategy Consultant, you’ll increase operational productivity by accelerating data-driven decision-making and ensuring that improvements are actually implemented. You’ll not only develop strategic solutions but also ensure that they are successfully implemented within the organization.

You’ll work on complex issues that directly contribute to the energy transition. In doing so, you’ll collaborate daily with project managers, engineers, team leaders, business owners, and regional managers. You’ll reconcile various interests, analyze bottlenecks, and translate these into concrete solutions that are feasible in practice. You’ll then oversee the implementation at the regional level and monitor whether the intended results are actually being achieved.

You’ll be involved from the initial idea on a blank sheet of paper all the way through to implementation and the delivery of tangible value in operations. The use cases you work on are regularly discussed with the COOs. You’ll work within an innovative process that spans discovery, proof of concept (POC), minimum viable product (MVP), and scaling up. You’ll play an active role in every phase: mapping out processes and chains, developing problem analyses and scenarios, and substantiating decisions with data, risk analyses, and impact assessments. You translate strategic issues into concrete improvement initiatives and ensure that these are developed and implemented in collaboration with the business, end users, and business owners.

In addition, you prepare decision-making documents and guide the decision-making process within core teams and toward management. You are able to clearly summarize complex information in memos and presentations and know how to get stakeholders on board with the proposed approach. Where necessary, you also support the team in preparing management reports based on Excel data. You identify discrepancies, ask the right probing questions of the region, and translate these insights into concrete improvement actions.

Your duties include:

• analyzing and solving complex operational problems;
• supporting implementations and change initiatives in the region;
• preparing decision-making materials for core teams and management;
• translating strategic objectives into concrete improvements and (data) product requirements;
• preparing analyses, business cases, reports, and management information that lead to better decision-making and demonstrable results.

You just make it more energetic

You have strong analytical skills, know how to bring structure to complex issues, and are energized by implementing improvements. You move easily between strategy and execution and know how to engage various stakeholders in the change process. You feel at home in a dynamic environment where you conduct analyses independently and collaborate with the operations team.

You also recognize yourself in the following:

• You have a university degree and approximately 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience as a consultant, business or strategy analyst, or in a similar role within a complex organization.
• You have strong consulting skills and know how to formulate hypotheses, conduct analyses, and convincingly support your recommendations.
• You have experience in preparing and quantifying business cases, risk analyses, and scenario analyses.
• You have proven experience implementing process improvements or change initiatives and know how to successfully guide them through to operational implementation.
• You are a strong counterpart for project managers, engineers, team leaders, business owners, and regional managers.
• You know how to prepare decision-making processes and effectively engage stakeholders in the decision-making process.
• You have experience preparing management reports, are comfortable working with Excel, and are able to interpret data, identify discrepancies, and ask the right follow-up questions.
• You have excellent communication skills and write clear memos and presentations for a variety of audiences.
• You are pragmatic, results-oriented, and enjoy rolling up your sleeves to actually bring about improvements.