Associate Director - Chemicals Consulting

S&P Global•Houston, TX

21h

About The Position

The Associate Director in Chemicals Consulting leads complex client engagements and contributes to the growth of S&P Global Energy’s global advisory business. The role applies 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 and client relationships, develops high-quality proposals and intellectual capital, and contributes to priority accounts and practice development. The role is part of the global, collaborative, client-led Chemicals Consulting team within S&P Global Energy. The team combines market intelligence, proprietary data, industry expertise, and consulting methods to advise chemical producers, national oil companies, governments, investors, technology providers, and financial institutions. Its work spans strategy, market and commercial assessment, feasibility, techno-economics, competitiveness, transactions, sustainability, and business transformation, with close links to S&P Global research, price reporting, data, analytics, and adjacent 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, supported by 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.
Ability to structure ambiguous questions, prioritize relevant analyses, and develop practical recommendations from evidence.
Ability to communicate complex findings clearly, handle challenges constructively, and build credibility with senior clients and internal stakeholders.
Commercial and practice-building orientation, including connecting market developments to client needs and balancing client value, delivery quality, and project economics.
Collaborative leadership skills, including aligning multidisciplinary and cross-regional teams, developing others, making sound trade-offs, and maintaining high standards under pressure.
Must have 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 end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements, from problem definition and hypothesis development through analysis, executive synthesis, and implementation-oriented recommendations; manage scope, quality, economics, risk, and client outcomes.
Advise senior client stakeholders 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.
Convert 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 appropriate 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 practice pipeline and revenue plans.