Associate Director - Management Consulting

A. About the Role:

We seek an experienced professional with at least 10 years of relevant (consultancy/ BD/ lead

generation) experience in the industry, who would independently take charge and support the

Vertical Head with his/her expertize, leadership skills and business acumen.

The Associate Director- Management Consulting is a senior position in the Company, and shall

be a part of the dynamic, high performing team within our Management Consulting division. As a Business Leader of the Management Consulting Division, and reporting directly to the Managing

Partner, the key (broadly indicative) expectations from the Associate Director- 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.

B. Detailed expectations from the role:

Regulatory:

• 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 compliances 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

Client Handling and Team Development:

• 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 organizational objectives

C. Required skill set

• Deep understanding of the power sector including Electricity Act, Regulations and latest

changes in the sector.

• 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.

D. Education and Experience

• BE/B. Tech plus MBA/ CA with 10yrs or more experience in handling of various acts/

regulations, financial and commercial matters in power sector

E. Location

• Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. However, the role would require the applicant to undertake travel for

pursuing various opportunities.

F. Remuneration Structure

• We offer a motivation based and competitive reward package