Senior Account Manager - Natural Resources

Wood Mackenzie

$100K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in the oil and gas industry or related fields
  • Proven track record in client-facing or account management roles
  • Strong understanding of commodity market dynamics and energy sector business models
  • Familiarity with CRM systems, preferably Salesforce
  • Excellent negotiation skills with a results-oriented mindset

Responsibilities

  • Develop comprehensive account strategies to navigate oil and gas market cycles
  • Proactively manage growth aligned with regional energy market priorities
  • Identify high-potential clients to cross-sell various research services
  • Serve as the link between clients' needs and the firm's capabilities
  • Engage clients to understand their growth potential and align services accordingly
  • Manage the business pipeline to ensure accurate forecasting
  • Provide feedback on emerging trends and support new product launches

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth in a critical sector
  • Work closely with key clients in diverse natural resources markets
  • Collaboration across various teams for broad market impact
  • Flexibility to accommodate global operations and diverse time zones
  • Support for personal and professional development initiatives
Full Job Description
Role Purpose

Your role will focus on retaining and growing clients in the natural resources sector through a variety of mechanisms, including face-to-face meetings, phone conversations and utilising web-based solutions. You will excel at identifying opportunities to expand our research coverage and consulting services particularly around crude oil markets, natural gas fundamentals, refining margins, and energy transition strategies.

The Account Management team is a key driver for sales execution and performance across existing and new accounts. You will be instrumental for the achievement of sales targets as well as the effective use of resources to achieve targets. Your client portfolio will include a diverse set of customers in key Wood Mackenzie markets. This is your opportunity to truly partner with the firm's critical clients.

Main Responsibilities

Account Planning & Management
  • Develop comprehensive account strategies incorporating oil and gas market cycles, commodity price volatility, and upstream/downstream investment patterns
  • Proactively manage commercial growth aligned with regional energy market priorities and commodity trading patterns
  • Identify high-potential clients for cross-selling opportunities across our oil, gas, LNG, and refined products research suite
  • Execute account management strategies using deep understanding of commodity market dynamics and energy sector business models


Client Engagement & Business Development
  • Serve as the critical link between clients' commodity market needs and Wood Mackenzie's energy research capabilities
  • Effective client engagement and understanding of critical client business growth potential and how the Wood Mackenzie suite of products supports the client's growth
  • Handle client inquiries related to oil and gas market outlooks, price forecasting, and supply/demand fundamentals
  • Represent Wood Mackenzie at conferences and professional organizations to expand brand recognition and promote business development activities


Market Intelligence & Collaboration

  • Provide continuous feedback on evolving client needs in oil and gas markets, including emerging trends in energy transition and commodity trading
  • Support launches of new products covering crude oil benchmarks, natural gas pricing, refining economics, and petrochemical markets
  • Collaborate effectively across research (upstream, gas & LNG, refining), consulting, and data services teams
  • Demonstrate strong understanding of how account management integrates with commodity research and market analysis functions


Pipeline Management
  • Effectively manage the business pipeline to ensure accurate forecasting
  • Ensure high quality of task/services/information is provided
  • Make evaluative judgements based on analysis of information, guided by precedents


About You

Knowledge & Experience
  • Direct experience in oil and gas industry operations, commodity trading, or energy market fundamental analysis strongly preferred
  • Direct knowledge and experience working in the energy industry an advantage
  • Good knowledge and understanding of account management processes, procedures and systems within the energy/natural resources sector
  • Good understanding of how account management integrates with other teams to achieve overall objectives
  • Experience in client-facing or account management roles, with understanding of relationship management


Professional Skills
  • Demonstrated success in developing oil and gas sector clients and building trusted advisor relationships around commodity market insights
  • Strong negotiation skills and a results-oriented mindset
  • Attention to detail in making evaluative judgements based on analysis of factual information
  • Ability to resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through application of acquired technical experience


Personal Attributes
  • Self-motivated and energetic with excellent judgment in how resources are utilised and optimised
  • Passionate about growing the business and committed to personal and professional development
  • Intellectually curious about how data and analysis can solve critical business challenges
  • Highly organised, with strong planning skills and the ability to manage workloads effectively


Technical Requirements
  • Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce is advantageous
  • Good analytical/technical operational knowledge required to complete work in account management


Expectations
  • Delivery of individual targets
  • Role model strong integrity and sets an example of WoodMac's values and behaviours.
  • Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones

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