Xped - Senior Management Consultant

Job Description:

Management Consulting shall be as under:

- Manage the management consulting practice along with other Directors.

- Scale up the team to support delivery capabilities.

- Be responsible to ensure sustainable growth of the company.

- Generate new business to meet agreed targets by building client relationships, identify business opportunities from new and existing clients, write and cost project proposals, make verbal and written client presentations and conduct appropriate follow-up to secure the business.

- Plan, manage and carry out assignments, making optimum use of company resources to achieve high levels of client satisfaction.

- This will be achieved by producing assignment/project plans, working with the management team to identify appropriate resources to meet client needs and delivery, ensuring action is taken to ensure agreed quality standards and timescales are met.

- Provide Regulatory support to multiple stakeholders across the value chain.

- Provide support in Processing, monitoring and follow-up on various regulatory matters.

- Preparation of formats for capturing various information from concerned wings of the utilities.

- Monitoring of compliance by Power Sector utilities on the directives issued by Commission.

- Examination of DPR of capex schemes provided by Power sector utilities as per regulatory requirements.

- Filing of Business Plan/True-up/APR/ARR for Power Sector utilities.

- Preparation of detailed financial and tariff models.

- Support in monitoring Government Subsidy.

- Review of the petitions and applications filed by other utilities and stakeholders and prepare comments / objections with respect to the same.

- Preparation of comments to various Approach Papers and Draft Regulations issued by the CERC/ SERC from time to time.

- Assistance in continuous regulatory interactions with SERC.

- Conduct Training Workshop on regulatory matters for capacity building of the officers.

Power procurement:

- Assist in preparation of long-term power procurement planning data and Resource Adequacy Plan.

- Detailed analysis of demand and supply positions to identify the shortfall in long-term, medium -term and short-term power sources.

- Undertake detailed analysis of RPO compliance's for future years to estimate required quantum of RE sources to be procured by utilities.

- Support in long/medium/short term power procurement including preparation of bid documents, evaluation, etc.

- Assistance in preparation of regulatory filings and approvals with respect to power procurement.

- Assistance in various matters relating to PPA with various generators.

- Effectively managing clients to establish and understand their requirements.

- Proper deployment and monitoring of the team for ensuring quality and timeliness of the deliverables.

- Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture by providing mentorship, clear goals, and regular feedback to enhance individual and collective performance.

- Ensure effective resource allocation, skill development, and conflict resolution to maintain productivity and align team efforts with organisational objectives.

Required skill set:

- Leadership and Team Player should have handled versatile teams on diverse assignments.

- Should be able to do multi-tasking on assignments, BD responsibilities and be able to deliver in typical high pressure consulting environment.

- Candidate should possess strong set of techno-commercial competencies, thought leadership and people leadership, client focus and relationship.

- Updated about the latest trends and disruptions happening in the power sector.

- Thorough knowledge of the Power Sector, including its commercial, technological and regulatory drivers.

- Broad and deep professional network and contacts across Indian electricity utilities, developers, regulators and policy arenas.

- Proven working experience with reputed Financial Institutes dealing in project financing.

- Understanding of the modelling of energy/electricity markets and how to apply the insights derived across the investor and utility landscape.

- Strong written and oral communications skills.

- Excellent interpersonal skills to manage both internal as well as external stakeholders.