Director, Utilities/Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)- Doha

Director, Utilities/Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), EY, MENA

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Our clients operate in a world where achieving and sustaining performance is more difficult than ever. As an EY professional, you will be focused on helping them grow and turn their strategy into reality. You’ll work with high-performing teams that drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, working to ensure you play your part in building a better working world.

The opportunity

As a Utilities/EAM professional, you’ll be focused on bringing solutions and strategies to advancing our clients work & asset management capabilities. You’ll work with high-performing teams that drive growth and deliver exceptional client service, ensuring that you play your part in building a better working world through better working assets.

Your role as a Senior Manager will focus on the management and delivery of client engagements, often interacting at an executive level, as well as sales and practice development activities, resulting in increased value and efficiency. You will help mentor, coach, counsel your team members and help EY build an inclusive culture and high-performing teams. You will also work with our internal teams to identify, and author thought leadership and represent EY at different public forums and events covering your areas of expertise.

Key responsibilities

Drawing on your knowledge, skills and experience, you will

• Establish valued relationships with external clients at the ‘’C’’ level
• Solve our clients most difficult problems by bringing our solutions, strengths and points of view to become their trusted advisor
• Lead and support opportunity pursuits and practice development initiatives, proposals and thought leadership
• Deliver EAM projects successfully, specifically in Utility sector
• Deploy leading and industry standard EAM frameworks, helping effectively manage both the physical and non-physical assets through their entire lifecycle that maximise performance, productivity whilst reducing the total cost of operations / ownership
• Manage multiple EY colleagues across levels and client team members and mentor them as they progress in their own career
• Enhance our brand through strong external relationships across a network of existing and future clients
• Develop and lead partnerships with our alliance partners (e.g. SAP, IBM, Microsoft, etc.)
• Lead with confidence to actively promote emerging platforms and share knowledge and best practices
• Develop external eminence across the sub-capabilities in the utilities and EAM space
• Promote an effective forum for sharing utilities/EAM expertise
• Strengthen our collective EAM knowledge, helping resolve our clients EAM challenges
• Help grow our functional and technical consulting skills on utilities/EAM, there by contributing to the development of your own and teams acumen and helping resolve our clients utilities/EAM challenges

To qualify for the role you must have

• Approximately 12+ years of work experience covering across EAM capabilities and/or leadership experience within Utilities with a proven record of transformational experience to achieve positive outcomes and change in the organization
• Prior Senior Manager/Director experience in consulting (Big Four, Strategy House or equivalent) or VP/Director experience in utilities/energy companies
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the Utility sector
• Expert knowledge of EAM domain including on asset life cycle management, asset effectiveness, asset automation, energy efficiency, etc. and knowledge of ESG and trends in the digital and emerging technology space
• Expert understanding of maintenance operations including maintenance scheduling, condition monitoring, asset performance management and asset cost reduction
• Solid understanding of AI, IOT, ML, AR/VR, SAP EAM, IBM Maximo will be valuable for this role
• Addon experience in supply chain - planning, inventory management, materials management, procurement and quality, environmental, health and safety (QHSE) standards
• Proven track record of leading large scale business development activities
• Qatar based
• Preferably Arabic speaking
• A bachelor’s degree with the emphasis on Engineering, Business, Supply Chain or Logistics with strong academic records
• Experience managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A master’s degree with emphasis in Engineering, Business or Supply Chain with strong academic records
• Digital EAM implementation experience (IBM Maximo, Oracle EAM, SAP EAM, Infor EAM, APM tools, etc)
• Experience with ISO 55001, asset management system framework and energy audits will be an advantage
• Certification / working knowledge in ISO 55001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001
• Represented your organization across leading forums as a qualified expert
• Certification in Lean, Six sigma, TQM, KAIZEN will be an added/preferred advantage
• Willingness to travel across the MENA region

What we look for

Alongside your comprehensive and proven technical expertise you will also be a born leader with a passion for:

• Developing people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Conducting performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
• Contributing to our people initiatives that include recruiting and retaining our professionals

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance and recognised for the value you bring to the business. We also offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Build your legacy with us.

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