Partner – Executive Advisory — Renewables Construction Book

The mandate

Renewables leaders preparing projects for monetisation face decisions about completion, contractor recovery, operating handover, claims and management readiness. Conventional executive coaching does not address the evidence and consequences of those choices. An advisory partnership has developed a proposition combining individual counsel with live enterprise decisions and now seeks a planned successor to lead it.

The Partner will advise leaders responsible for approximately ₹23,750 crore in projects and operating assets and 1,450 employees and material partners. Accountability covers executive counsel, team effectiveness, decision design, succession themes, stakeholder alignment, engagement quality and economics. Client executives retain every project, people and transaction decision. The adviser must not become a shadow operator or formal assessor where counsel creates a conflict.

The work will be anchored in consequential decisions. A project director may need to disclose completion risk before a sale process, a CFO may have to challenge claim-dependent value, and an operating leader may reject premature handover. The Partner will help each executive state evidence, authority, trade-off and stakeholder consequence, then observe follow-through.

Monetisation creates behavioural pressure. Teams may minimise defects, defer cost or overstate readiness to protect value. Counsel must surface incentives and establish forums where dissent reaches the sponsor. Personal development without better enterprise decisions is insufficient; transaction value obtained through concealed delivery exposure is also failure.

Why this seat is open

The incumbent will move into a regional council role after a planned four-to-six-month handover. No client or conduct problem drives the replacement. The process allows conflict review and transfer of live relationships without disclosing personal counsel.

What you will own

• Contract executive advisory around named enterprise decisions and outcomes.
• Counsel individuals on authority, evidence, stakeholder and follow-through.
• Redesign team forums where conflict or ambiguity blocks delivery.
• Establish confidentiality, synthesis and escalation boundaries.
• Support succession themes without becoming an undisclosed assessor.
• Build advisers able to succeed the Partner and reduce client dependency.

Engagement contracting will separate personal confidence from enterprise confidentiality. Themes may be synthesised for the sponsor only under agreed rules; individual disclosures will not be attributed without permission or a defined risk exception. Safety, fraud or serious conduct concerns need protected escalation explained before counsel begins.

Observation will happen in live reviews: completion, contractor, commissioning, handover and transaction readiness. The Partner may ask what evidence is missing, who can decide and what delay costs. The client chair remains accountable. The adviser will not privately negotiate outcomes that should be resolved in governance.

Team progress will be measured through decision latency, quality of challenge, closure of commitments and operating or transaction evidence. Participant satisfaction can inform the relationship but cannot be the primary result. Advisory intensity will taper when executives can surface disagreement and decide without orchestration.

Succession work will distinguish role requirement, observed readiness and development. Where the Partner has coached a candidate deeply, formal assessment will be independent or the conflict declared. Retention recommendations will connect to delivery and future operating needs, not personal rapport.

The advisory team will maintain its own supervision and wellbeing standards. Repeated exposure to high-conflict executive situations can distort judgement or create unhealthy dependency. Cases will use peer review, protected escalation and planned adviser rotation without breaching client confidence. Commercial leaders cannot extend counsel indefinitely merely because the personal relationship is strong; continuation needs a renewed enterprise purpose, sponsor agreement and credible path to client self-sufficiency.

Engagement renewal will be documented through client outcomes and unresolved decision needs, never personal access alone.

The first 12 months

Within 90 days, the Partner will review live engagements, confidentiality contracts and adviser capability. The council will receive a proposition, quality safeguards and succession plan without client-sensitive disclosures.

By month eight, leaders in two client teams should have resolved at least four material delivery or transaction choices through revised governance. Two advisers will lead significant executive relationships under supervision, and client sponsors will verify changed follow-through.

At year-end, decision closure in selected forums should improve 25%, overdue commitments fall 30% and clients sustain governance for three months after adviser intensity reduces. Case contribution must meet plan, with no material confidentiality, assessment or independence breach.

What the partner council will measure

• Counsel changing enterprise decisions rather than sentiment alone.
• Confidentiality and assessment boundaries protected.
• More candid, timely project and monetisation governance.
• Sustainable client capability and case economics.
• Strong adviser succession.

The person

You are an executive-advisory Partner, board adviser or former renewables and infrastructure executive with 22–28 years of experience. You have governed at least ₹13,750 crore and 1,025 employees, or equivalent client-value responsibility. Evidence must include live decision counsel, a confidentiality boundary you defended and a leadership intervention tied to delivery or transaction outcome.

This hybrid Mumbai role requires frequent client, project and board travel. You combine personal discretion with a clear understanding of construction, capital and governance.

Compensation and terms

Fixed compensation is ₹2.2–3.0 crore plus performance variable. Measures include client decisions, collected contribution, confidentiality, independence, adviser development and succession. Final terms will reflect advisory standing and the confirmed executive-counsel scope.

Confidentiality

The firm, clients, leaders, projects and personal counsel remain confidential. Controlled details follow qualification, conflict clearance and an undertaking. Mumbai and approximate figures do not identify a client.