Careers
Jump in With Both Feet
At UMS Group, we are dedicated to helping our employees engage in a career that is rewarding both personally and professionally. We are committed to developing our employees’ skill sets and competencies, enhancing their professional networks, and giving them significant client exposure from the moment they arrive. We have great confidence in even the most junior member of our staff, as we believe that our employees’ growth and professional advancement should be limited only by their ambition.
Global Opportunity
UMS Group recruits employees in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. We offer the opportunity to travel, work with overseas peers, and gain exposure to clients from many cultures.
UMS Group has become aware of ongoing widespread hiring scams with people posing as company employees/affiliates to conduct web interviews (mostly via Skype) and then requesting personal information from the applicant on the pretense that they have been awarded the position.
UMS Group will never ask for personal information or a financial commitment from an applicant.
All communications regarding available positions will come from an email address ending with @umsgroup.com, and virtual interviews are not conducted via Skype. If you are unsure about the legitimacy of any communications, call our U.S. Headquarters Office at +1 973 335 3555 or email recruiting@umsgroup.com
Our Team Is Growing
We are actively seeking for passionate and experienced individuals to deliver superior value to our clients and to support our growing global management consulting business.
We are always looking for great talent in these areas:
VP/PARTNER/SENIOR BUSINESS DEV. EXECUTIVE
Are you well connected in the utility industry? Do you have a successful track record of selling strategic consulting projects and building durable client relationships? Do your clients consider you a thought leader? Are you able to attract, develop, and retain a high powered team around you? Do you want to be part of an organization with a reputation for insight, depth of content knowledge, strategic breadth, and delivery excellence? If so, we are interested in hearing from you. UMS Group North America is in a high growth period and looking to add talent and a breadth of new capabilities. Please send a resume along with an outline of your interests and ambitions.
Business Development and Sales
This is a new opening for a creative and proactive Director of Business Development & Sales to further develop our brand and create new relationships and opportunities. In this position, you will have the exciting opportunity to drive growth that enables companies to operate optimally as well as to help shape the future of UMS Group’s offerings.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Identify opportunities via existing contacts and prospecting; build relationships with potential clients, giving initial presentations and opening the door for a product expert to support more detailed presentations and demonstrations
- Manage the sales cycle from initiation through close – responsible for quarterly targets with base plus commission structure
- Maintain a robust sales pipeline
- Network and connect with relevant industry associations and committees
- In addition to main focus on software product / tool sales, identify consulting services opportunities as needed or as relevant pain points are identified with a potential client that our services can address
- Establish and grow marketing initiatives to support existing and developing software and tools
- Create and deliver a strategic marketing plan to grow brand awareness and sales. This includes:
– Attendance and speaking at key regional conferences & industry events
– Regional campaigns to build brand awareness & generate sales leads
– Identify key accounts in target market segments across the region
– Create regional content for external publications and social media
– Work with product management to develop presentations and collateral
– Identify product improvements or new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors
Requirements/Skills:
- You can build strong and trusting relationships with new prospects, existing clients, and influential people
- You are a naturally compelling communicator, able to represent the unique value that UMS Group’s solutions provide to clients in terms that resonate with the industry
- You’re a fast learner and energetic self-starter
- You have a genuine interest in how customers do/can use UMS Group’s products and services to solve business problems and make better decisions
- You’re able to create credibility and solid working relationships with others across the company
- You enjoy travelling and are willing to spend 50% of your time at meetings and events across North America
Preferred Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or engineering
- Prior experience in a marketing, sales or business development role
- Experience and contacts in the utility industry
- Experience with software/technical sales
- Excellent verbal, written & presentation skills
Senior Consultant/Senior Associate
Ready for the next step on your career journey? We are seeking Senior Consultants to join our Utility Consulting Practice! In this role, you will be interviewing utility clients, performing analysis, creating deliverables, and supporting other project responsibilities.
We need someone who can bring the following to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business-related or technical field, MBA is a plus
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in energy, consulting or heavy industry
- Experience in one or more of the following: Business process or organizational design, Asset Management, Work Management, Project Management or Change Management
- Ability to develop project frameworks and conduct client interviews
- Ability to identify key business issues and develop action plans
- Ability to develop and deliver professional briefings, multimedia presentations, and written reports
- Demonstrated skill in synthesizing data through both qualitative and quantitative methods into useful insights and actionable recommendations
- Interest in project management and consulting; including writing and presentation of business solutions
- Openness to new ideas and perspectives
Senior Consulting Project Managers
UMS Group is looking for people that understand the utility industry, and have substantial prior experience in managing consulting projects with a track record of delivering on time, on budget, with delighted customers, and substantial innovation and new IP development on each project.
The successful candidate should be able to cultivate and sustain client relationships at the executive level and have a demonstrated history of being able to identify, propose and close on follow-up opportunities within the project client organization.
It is also critically important to be able to manage less tangible factors such as strategic intent, political sensitivities, inter-personal alignment, and motivation issues and able to quickly identify intrinsic opportunities to extrapolate client projects into products and templates that can be used on other client engagements.
In this role, you will be interviewing utility clients, performing analysis, creating deliverables, and supporting other project responsibilities.
We need someone who can bring the following to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business-related or technical field, MBA is a plus
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in energy, consulting or heavy industry
- Experience in one or more of the following: Business process or organizational design, Asset Management, Work Management, Project Management or Change Management
- Ability to develop project frameworks and conduct client interviews
- Ability to identify key business issues and develop action plans
- Ability to develop and deliver professional briefings, multimedia presentations, and written reports
- Demonstrated skill in synthesizing data through both qualitative and quantitative methods into useful insights and actionable recommendations
- Interest in project management and consulting; including writing and presentation of business solutions
- Openness to new ideas and perspectives
.NET SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS DEVELOPER (MANILA)
We are looking for passionate and creative developers to join our support team for our Spend Optimization Suite application. The Software Developer will perform programming and help provide the overall technical vision/direction. The Spend Optimization Suite, or SOS, is a risk management and investment planning application, helping large companies to set their optimal budget to mitigate risk and maximize value, aligned with company strategy and priorities.
The SOS has a global user base; the application is comprised of three .Net modules and one Excel module. The SOS programming team supports existing users and develops new functionality to expand and improve the .Net modules. The team works closely with management staff of the US-based SOS Product Group. Although the SOS team has been operating for over 5 years, this position affords a unique opportunity to work in an exciting start-up type environment within an established company, with opportunities for significant contribution and to truly make an impact on the application and processes. UMS Group offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Key team member along with 4+ other programmers (including Team Lead), helping to manage daily work and delivery schedules.
- Help provide technical vision and direction for the development, design, and systems integration for application development and client engagement from definition phase through implementation.
- Apply significant knowledge of IT/software industry trends and developments to improve application.
- Perform analysis, design, and development of SOS application utilizing primarily C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, MVC, JavaScript, JQuery, DevExpress, and Oracle.
- Develop software programs and features based on design documents and adhering to industry standards.
- Develop design documents based on functional specifications.
- Ensure defined development processes, procedures, and tools are used and adhered to.
- Engage with clients for installation support and re-installation/issue support.
- Recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions.
- Support SOS marketing in terms of answering technical / IT questions.
- Help develop and implement quality assurance program.
- Perform unit testing of software.
- Participate in peer code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Help to create and execute development plans and revise to meet changing needs and requirements.
- Communicate and enforce coding standards.
- Participate in a daily status call with US SOS Product Group.
Requirements/Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer Engineering preferred
- Preferred 3+ years relevant work experience
- Experience with C#, ASP.NET,ADO.NET, MVC, JavaScript, JQuery, Oracle queries and stored proc development
- Excellent English communication skills – spoken and written
- Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Willing to work in Quezon City, 1pm-10pm shift (UP-Ayala Technohub, Commonwealth Avenue)
Preferred Experience:
- DevExpress
- Systems Integration, such as web services, APIs, flat file
- UX Design
- Creating/managing msi installation packages
- Creating and running automated test scripts
- Atlassian Jira
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
UMS Group is looking for talented personnel with 2 to 4 years of industry experience (or equivalent through the military) and a strong technical orientation who are looking for an opportunity to apply their problem-solving abilities to management consulting for the utility industry. We have positions that offer great opportunities for learning and developing new skills with the potential for a rapid increase in responsibility and compensation. If you don’t mind travel, have an interest in continuous learning, consider yourself a hard worker and a great technical problem solver, give us a call. An advanced degree, though not required is a plus, as is familiarity with Lean 6-sigma and process improvement practices.
SENIOR CONSULTANT/ASSOCIATE OR DIRECTOR
We are looking for a Senior Consultant/Associate or Director level team member, preferably based in California or on the United States West Coast, to join our Utility Consulting Practice! In this role, you will be interviewing utility clients, performing analysis, creating deliverables, and supporting other project responsibilities.
We need someone who can bring the following to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business-related or technical field, MBA is a plus.
- Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in utility (gas and/or electric), energy, consulting or heavy industry.
- Experience in one or more of the following: Business process or organizational design, Asset Management, Work Management, Project Management or Change Management.
- Ideally located in California or on the United States West Coast
- Ability to develop project frameworks and conduct client interviews.
- Ability to identify key business issues and develop action plans.
- Ability to develop and deliver professional briefings, multimedia presentations, and written reports.
- Demonstrated skill in synthesizing data through both qualitative and quantitative methods into useful insights and actionable recommendations.
- Interest in project management and consulting; including writing and presentation of business solutions.
- Openness to new ideas and perspectives.
Interested applicants may send their resumes directly to naustin@umsgroup.com
If you are interested in a fast track to significant professional responsibility and commensurate rewards, please email your resume to recruiting@umsgroup.com
Mastering Business Acumen (MBA Program)
We are looking for future leaders like you; an ambitious, talented utility industry professional who has what it takes to solve the most important challenges of our time. Our offer is simple, a two-year MBA-like experience in our focused curriculum, serving key executives across the global energy industry on our most interesting and challenging consulting engagements and programs.
Many early stage professionals see an MBA as a gateway to an exciting and lucrative career change. In fact, the top three reasons cited for getting an MBA are: 1) Higher Salary, 2) Better Opportunities, and 3) Network Development. Business schools know this, and aggressively market to your dreams. What they don’t tell you is the financial and opportunity cost. These days, few MBA programs can be completed for less than a six figure, multi-year investment. And considering salary deferral, your investment can easily be $250k or more. With starting salaries for top MBA grads barely hovering above $100,000, it is no wonder that a growing number of students are questioning the payback on such a large investment.
We offer something different, the UMS MBA. Instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and two to three years learning many already obsolete ideas, we offer the opportunity be a part of the energy transition, decarbonization, and driving ESG goals all while attaining a greater salary, better opportunities, and executive-level networking, while undertaking a rigorous, cutting-edge curriculum – and getting paid for the experience. We call this Mastering Business Acumen Program.
If our Mastering Business Acumen “MBA” program is of interest to you, our leadership team would like to discuss your career aspirations and how we can work together. Reach out to our lead North American Vice President, Patrick Heuer at pheuer@umsgroup.com
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