Senior Manager/Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant, Energy Transition (Gurugram & Mumbai - India)

1.1. Contract duration: Permanent

1.2. Salary: Competitive plus benefits

1.3. Location: Gurugram & Mumbai – India

About Steer

1.4. Working across cities, infrastructure and transport, Steer is a global business consultancy providing clients with a commercial and competitive edge. We are a consultancy that combines commercial, economic, technical, financial modelling, advisory, refinancing and planning expertise to find powerful answers to our clients’ complex challenges. Answers that help people, places and economies thrive.

1.5. Founded in 1978, Steer is a global business consultancy specializing in transport, cities, and infrastructure, with over 600 staff spanning across 26 offices in four continents working together to make a real difference.

1.6. We have an enduring commitment to generating success for our clients, for ourselves and in the communities in which we work. We take great pride in providing high quality advisory, customer service and insight into our clients’ projects across sectors like low carbon, transport, decentralized energy, large scale energy and infrastructure.

About the Role

Steer India in partnership with our UK based financial and commercial advisory business, Amberside Advisors Ltd is looking for an enthusiastic and talented professional to support our business on the energy transition side of the industry. This position as Principal Consultant prefers experience of local Energy Transition markets, ability to develop new clients and targeting opportunities where investments are taking place. This may be focused on, but not restricted to, India, but extending across Asia and potentially MENA regions. The typical focus sectors include district / decentralized / distributed energy projects, including local generation (e.g. renewables, EfW, biofuels), microgrids, and district heating and cooling (in which we have a UK center of excellence) as well as EV charging / fleet electrification.

Note however, this role would have the freedom to target alternative opportunities across the energy infrastructure sectors where the business case and local policy is supportive, such as grid-scale renewables and storage, transmission / distribution network, CCUS, hydrogen (e.g. transport and industrial).  

Whilst the candidate would benefit from a multidisciplinary understanding (financial, commercial, technical), they must be a very capable financial modeler, in order to support the existing projects and potentially Steer transport and city infrastructure when required.

As a Principal Consultant, the candidate should be prepared to take leading role in the delivery of concurrent advisory mandates, often as Project Manager, driving the value-add to clients, managing relationships and programs, and producing (and or reviewing for) high quality client outputs.

The role will be varied and expected to originate and develop opportunities for Amberside to provide its comprehensive advisory function to its existing clients, and the wider market to commercialize new offerings. This will include supporting Steer’s initiatives that may apply internationally, and whilst the focus will be in the delivery of advisory mandates, will also include working on relationship-led proposals, tenders, presentations, and reports.

You will work as part of a global team spanning across India , UK, Europe, North America, and LATAM providing solutions to both private and public-sector clients.

1.7. We are specifically interested in consultants to assist with tasks such as but not limited to:

· Managing commercial aspects of an individual engagement to achieve desired levels of quality and profitability.

· Progressing to specialize and contribute to a practice area - developing and maintaining industry knowledge and demonstrating sound knowledge of economic, political and market trends.

· Passing on pertinent market/client knowledge to senior management and colleagues/ teams to aid the development of knowledge.

· Ability to understand clients’ needs and translate that into a scope. Deliver timely and quality outputs. Communicating risk and issue early to appropriate colleagues.

· Meeting deadlines throughout Performance Development Cycle for self, including seeking good quality feedback goal setting, providing input into engagement/ project reviews.

· Exhibiting role model behavior in line with our values.

· Being able to step back, see the bigger picture and ability to translate datasets and models into a value-add analysis; and

· Contribution to proposals and participation in activities that enhance Steer’s offer and reputation.

1.8. The ideal candidate will have driving curiosity to solve client problems, respond to the challenge and exceptional attention to detail and an ability to translate this to/from an Excel model. Candidate must be:

· Practiced at communicating complex information in a clear and concise manner.

· Confident in exhibiting role model behavior in line with our values.

· Having exceptional commercial acumen with a familiarity of key issues and approaches to quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

· Knowledgeable of the investor sphere in relevant jurisdictions.

· Self-motivated, a team player and find it easy to adapt to our working environment.

· Well-rounded, with interests across all aspects of professional consulting including data analysis, report writing and presentation, project management and business development and be able to evidence the relevant experience and capabilities.

1.9. This position requires an enthusiastic, hard-working person, who wants to be part of our growing and dynamic team. In this role, you will be required to:

· Collaborate respectfully, transparently, and honestly with colleagues across the business to deliver high-quality consulting and differentiated services to clients.

· Support consultants in delivering advisory services across India and global offices.

· Lead workstreams within projects with limited supervision, ensuring consistent application of best practice techniques.

· Deliver high-quality advice as part of multi-disciplinary teams on projects such as district / decentralized / distributed energy projects, local generation like renewables, EfW, biofuels, microgrids as well as EV charging / fleet electrification.

· Manage multi-disciplinary projects, sub-consultants, and support staff assigned on a project basis.

· Take ownership of key projects through the full lifecycle—from initiation and feasibility studies to client deliverables.

· Exercise effective financial and budgetary control to manage project budgets.

· Prepare and present reports, proposals, briefing notes, and design documentation.

· Contribute to the production and delivery of proposals and marketing materials as needed.

· Demonstrate strong analytical skills, including spreadsheet modelling and other tools, to solve complex problems in consultancy or client environments.

· Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences, both in writing and verbally.

· Influence colleagues and clients through a balance of supportive and challenging behaviors.

· Contribute to team performance by meeting financial and behavioral targets within allocated time and budget.

· Learn and apply new processes and applications, supported by guided training through the company’s graduate learning program.

· Broaden and deepen your skill set to enhance your marketability to clients and internal teams.

· Take a proactive role in participating in regional, office, company, and graduate events.

· Drive your own career path with support from customized training programs offered by the Learning and Development team.

Requirements

Desirable education background and skills required for this role:

· Degree in business administration or relevant field such as economics, law, finance, sciences, engineering. MBA/MSc/MA desirable.

· ACA/CIMA/CFA/IACCM/CMI/MEI or equivalent membership (optional).

· Professional experience spanning across 7 to 12 years.

· Expert user of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook & PowerPoint.

· Strong data analytical skills e.g., data manipulation/analysis, basic statistics and econometrics using a range of software packages (MS Excel, Stata, SPSS, R) including an ability to analyse and draw insight from the data.

· Strong report writing and communication skills including:

– ability to back up opinions with well-constructed, evidenced arguments; and

– ability to confidently explain complex analysis to non-specialists via reporting and presentations.

· Good team player, able to work collaboratively with colleagues in other disciplines and with different cultures and across time zones.

Benefits

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. Being an employee-owned company means that our people are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and it is the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry. Steer is an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or gender.

For more information visit our website www.steergroup.com