Associate Director - Chemicals Consulting

S&P Global•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Associate Director in Chemicals Consulting will lead complex client engagements and help shape the growth of S&P Global Energy’s global advisory business. The role combines chemicals industry knowledge and consulting judgment to translate market, technology, cost, policy, and competitive intelligence into strategic choices for senior clients. It owns project outcomes, client leadership, proposal and intellectual-capital development, and contributions to priority accounts and practice development. The Chemicals Consulting team combines market intelligence, proprietary data, industry expertise, and consulting methods to support decisions across the chemicals value chain. Its clients include chemical producers, national oil companies, governments, investors, technology providers, and financial institutions. The team works on strategy, market and commercial assessment, feasibility, techno-economics, competitiveness, transactions, sustainability, and business transformation, in collaboration with S&P Global research, pricing, data, analytics, and consulting practices.

Requirements

Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in chemicals consulting, corporate strategy, market intelligence, commercial development, investment analysis, or an operating role in the chemicals industry.
Demonstrated expertise in at least one chemicals domain, such as olefins, aromatics, polymers, fertilizers, inorganics, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, chemicals sustainability, or integrated refining and petrochemicals, with strong understanding of value chains and industry economics.
Advanced capability in market assessment, competitive and cost analysis, scenario development, financial and investment evaluation, strategic synthesis, and executive-level written and verbal communication.
Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
Strong consulting judgment: ability to structure ambiguous questions, prioritize important analyses, and move teams from evidence to clear answers and practical recommendations.
Executive presence and influence: ability to communicate complex findings simply, handle challenges constructively, and build credibility with senior clients and internal stakeholders.
Commercial and practice-building orientation: ability to connect market developments to client needs, develop relevant propositions, and balance client value, delivery quality, and project economics.
Collaborative leadership: ability to align multidisciplinary and cross-regional teams, develop others, make sound trade-offs, and maintain high standards under pressure.
Indefinite right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience with chemical industry databases, supply-demand and price forecasting, production cost or techno-economic models, asset benchmarking, valuation, or transaction support.
An established network with chemical producers, investors, governments, national oil companies, technology licensors, or other industry stakeholders.
Experience facilitating senior workshops or board-level presentations.
Additional language capability and experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.

Responsibilities

Lead complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements from problem definition and hypothesis development through analysis, executive synthesis, and implementation-oriented recommendations, with accountability for scope, quality, economics, risk, and client outcomes.
Advise senior clients on strategic and investment questions across petrochemicals, polymers, specialty chemicals, and adjacent value chains, including portfolio strategy, market entry, growth, competitiveness, feasibility, pricing, M&A and due diligence, decarbonization, circularity, and operating-model transformation.
Turn S&P Global Energy data, price assessments, supply-demand outlooks, cost and asset intelligence, policy analysis, and primary research into robust consulting analyses, scenarios, and decision frameworks; challenge assumptions and ensure conclusions are transparent and defensible.
Own day-to-day client relationships for assigned engagements and accounts; contribute to steering meetings and workshops, communicate trade-offs, resolve delivery issues, and identify well-founded follow-on opportunities aligned with client needs.
Develop proposals and differentiated points of view with research, commercial, and consulting colleagues; shape scope, methodology, team, schedule, deliverables, and commercial model, and support the practice pipeline and revenue plan.