Principal Consultant

Wood Mackenzie

Principal Consultant at Wood Mackenzie guiding complex strategy mandates for power and renewables markets. Leading teams to deliver high-quality work on time and on budget.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the delivery of complex commercial and strategy mandates across Americas power and renewables markets: shape the approach, set clear objectives, and steer teams to deliver on time, on budget, and to a high standard.
Take full accountability for the quality of everything your project teams deliver — from the rigor of the analysis to the clarity of the final recommendations — and stand behind that work with clients in a coherent, credible and authoritative manner.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior client teams — frequently serving as the commercial advisor on transactions — and interface effectively at every level, from analysts and project teams through to the C-suite.
Serve as the client's trusted point of contact through the life of each mandate: keep them informed, work through issues as they arise, and ensure the experience of working with us is as strong as the work itself.
Where excellent delivery naturally opens the door to further work, recognize and surface it.
Develop the next generation of consultants: coach and stretch junior colleagues, model the standard for problem-solving and craft, and take genuine ownership for their growth.
Bring a current, commercially grounded view of power and renewables markets — fundamentals, price formation, core technologies (wind, solar, storage, gas/flexible resource) and the energy transition — and apply it with judgement across a wide range of client situations.
Build and draw on a strong internal network across consulting, research, and sales and account management, bringing the full weight of Wood Mackenzie's data and expertise to every mandate.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience that demonstrates both strong consulting fundamentals and solid grounding in power and/or renewables markets, with a proven track record of leading projects and teams.
Strong consulting fundamentals — essential: structured problem-solving, analytical rigor, and the ability to turn complex, ambiguous questions into clear, defensible answers.
A solid grounding in power and/or renewables markets — essential: need to engage credibly with clients and lead analysis from the outset, with the appetite and ability to build it into genuine sector depth over time.
Candidates with genuine depth coming in will be at an advantage.
Experience acting as a commercial advisor in power and renewables transactions is highly desirable.
Financial modelling skills and familiarity with power generation asset and/or market modelling is highly desirable.
Previous hands-on experience in building asset pro-forma models is highly desirable.
Excellent written and verbal communication: able to construct high-impact storylines and present with authority to senior audiences.
A natural coach, genuinely committed to developing junior colleagues and raising the standard around them.
Intellectually curious, client-focused, and able to become credible quickly across a wide range of subjects.
Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (engineering, economics, finance, mathematics, physics or similar); a Master's degree or MBA is preferred.
Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Python and Agentic AI tool development skills are desirable.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal opportunities employer: committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial modellingpower generation asset modellingbuilding asset pro-forma modelsstructured problem-solvinganalytical rigorPythonAgentic AI tool development

Soft Skills

excellent written communicationexcellent verbal communicationcoachingclient-focusedintellectually curious

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreeMBA