E T Consultant Upstream & Advisory, MAS Sector, LAC Region

The position supports business development, pipeline management, and transaction execution in the Manufacturing sectors within the Latin America and Caribbean region. Key themes include job creation, energy transition, resource efficiency, value addition to supply chains, and digitalization, with responsibilities spanning research, analysis, project documentation, and coordination with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support business development, pipeline management and transaction execution
• Provide research and analysis on relevant sectors, markets, and companies, including market mapping, comparator analysis, and sector and company financial projections/models; analyses are expected to include opportunities for decarbonization and digitalization where possible
• Extract data from internal and external databases, manipulate and present data for various audiences and update/maintain information in relevant databases
• Review, screen, and prepare relevant documents and reports
• Draw up materials for external presentation to (potential) clients and IFC partners and prepare documentation for IFC internal processes
• Support the preparation and processing of project documentation throughout the project lifecycle, including concept notes, implementation plans, engagement letters, monitoring frameworks, and supervision and completion reports
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, and internal IFC and World Bank Group stakeholders, including industry, environmental and social, gender, legal, finance, and results measurement teams, to support project implementation, budget and timeline monitoring, and portfolio supervision

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, Science, Engineering, or another related field
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English are required
• Proficiency in Portuguese strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Spanish a plus
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in financial institutions, consulting, or companies active in manufacturing
• Experience with project and/or program development, executing against implementation plans, and managing stakeholders
• Experience in monitoring and reporting on a portfolio of projects, programs, and/or initiatives
• Strong organizational skills and proven ability to work on several assignments simultaneously is required
• Outstanding and demonstrated history of analytical, creative problem solving and critical thinking skills is required
• Experience in working with multinational teams
• Dynamic, independent, and highly organized professional with an ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interest in learning about different countries and markets within the manufacturing sector
• Strong qualitative, quantitative, and analytical skills to gather and prioritize information and resources, compile data and prepare statistics, and to synthesize knowledge from diverse sources of information
• Demonstrated ability to work flexibly on a range of assignments and prioritize a variety of complex evolving tasks while paying excellent attention to detail and quality

Skills

• Financial Analysis
• Project Development
• Programme Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Portfolio Monitoring
• Reporting
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Analytical Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Multinational Team Coordination
• Business Development
• Pipeline Management
• Transaction Execution
• Research
• Data Analysis
• Manufacturing Sector Knowledge
• Resource Efficiency

Languages

English, Portuguese