IN_Specialist 2_Mining & Metals_Fuels & Resources S&O_Advisory_Bangalore

Job Description & Summary:  

PwC’s Resources Strategy & Operations team is looking for high-potential resources to support high-impact consulting engagements. You will work closely with clients to address both strategic and operational challenges including growth strategy, cost optimization, supply chain transformation, process benchmarking, productivity enhancement, and performance improvement.    

 Responsibilities:     

As a Specialist, you will be part of a team of professionals with extensive consulting and industry experience. Leveraging your expertise and experience, we anticipate that you will provide valuable insights and solutions to clients in the chemical domain.  Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

Strategy:    

• Support growth and diversification strategy engagements, including global market analysis, competitor benchmarking, and opportunity identification.  

• Assist in building value strategy, performing opportunity assessment, and crafting a value story by identifying & sizing value/benefits opportunity, estimating cost components, etc., for largescale transformation programs.    

• Conduct commercial due diligence, business plan validation, and gotomarket strategy formulation including customer assessment.    

• Support clients with developing strategy in supply chain, procurement, and logistics.    

• Conduct techno-economic feasibility assessment for investments, process upgrades, and product diversification.    

• Support Large-scale Transformation Projects: Support the delivery of end-to-end transformation projects for Mining & Metals clients, involving Align, Innovate, Release, and Evolve phases of a Transformation program.    

• Market assessment of Mineral commodities, critical minerals, Global trends, metal recycling and circularity.  

Operations:    

• Client Collaboration: Work closely with our clients to understand their business needs, challenges, and objectives.    

• Requirements Analysis: Conduct comprehensive requirements gathering and analysis with Business Acumen and being users of Enterprise applications.    

• Map and assess operations across manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and logistics functions.    

• Support value chain diagnostics, cost take-out, throughput improvement, and asset productivity enhancement projects.    

• Conduct operational benchmarking and recommend best practices for process efficiency and digital interventions.    

• Analyze KPIs like production, OMS, availability, utilization, yield, cycle time, plant utilization, inventory turnover, etc., and develop performance dashboards.    

• Work on lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or Industry 4.0-related initiatives (exposure to tools/methodologies is a plus).    

Engagement Support:    

• Prepare client-ready deliverables including presentations, models, and reports.    

• Conduct primary and secondary research using industry databases and field interviews.    

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams  to deliver high-quality outputs.    

Years of experience required:     

2+ years    

Education qualification:     

BE/B-Tech/master’s degree in mining/ Mineral/ Metallurgy engineering or Msc Geology  

Full Time MBA from A lister college is a plus    

Top tier engineering institutes (IIT, NIT) will be preferred