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Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Electric Power Natural Gas (EPNG)

Job ID: 89728
  • Boston


Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.

Who You'll Work With

You will join the Greater Boston office and be part of our global Electric Power & Natural Gas Capabilities & Insights (Research) team.
The Electric Power & Natural Gas (EPNG) team includes ~30 professionals globally who work alongside our consultants and clients to generate distinctive insights and proprietary knowledge. You will also be part of our global Client Capabilities Network where colleagues are driven by a culture of innovation and deliver distinctive client impact through assets and expertise. 
Within our EPNG Capabilities & Insights network, you'll be working on strategic, analytical, and operational topics, with a focus on many elements around the energy transition incl. renewables, strategy, transmission & distribution (T&D) or retail markets. 
When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create positive, enduring change in the world and to foster the energy transition.

Your impact within our firm

You will leverage a solid understanding of business and technology trends, issues, and concepts in the power and gas industry to efficiently respond to complex research questions by researching and synthesizing actionable facts and insights to our consulting teams and clients.  
In this role, you will work alongside senior knowledge professionals on larger client projects and internal knowledge initiatives with a focus on energy topics and the energy transition. By collecting and analyzing data and information found in databases and/or other primary and secondary research tools, you will assemble a fact base, counsel consultants and clients on the scope of the business and economic trends surrounding the issue and provide insights and analysis for solving client problems at hand.  
On a daily basis, you will identify the key issues for a problem at hand and determine the most appropriate solution, while effectively balancing quality, availability, timeliness, and cost factors. You’ll likely perform a variety of analyses such as benchmarking, trend identification, industry profiling, market sizing, growth projections and opportunity scanning to add value to problem-solving discussions.
You will also participate in, and eventually lead, internal knowledge development and capability-building initiatives. Lasty, you’ll use advanced analytics tools to prepare and analyze large datasets to distil insights.

Your qualifications and skills

  • A degree in business, economics, engineering, or related fields
  • An advanced degree, MSc, MBA or equivalent either in engineering/economics and similar is a plus
  • 1+ years of experience in the electric power and/or natural gas industry, ideally including work around corporate strategy, generation, T&D or retail business
  • Good perspective on the electric power and natural gas industry including a strong understanding on trends and recent developments; ideally specific deeper knowledge on utilities strategies and/or power/gas retail, T&D or generation markets
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and deliver independently on tight timelines
  • Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
  • Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively
  • Demonstrated problem solving capability
  • Language fluency in English

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Job Skill Group - N/A
Job Skill Code - CIAN - Capabilities and Insights Analyst
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Industry - Electric Power & Natural Gas
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Mon Jul 08 00:00:00 GMT 2024
LinkedIn Posting City - Boston
LinkedIn Posting State/Province - Massachusetts 
LinkedIn Posting Country - United States
LinkedIn Job Title - Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Electric Power Natural Gas (EPNG)
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Research
LinkedIn Industry - Oil & Energy;Renewables & Environment;Utilities
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Entry level