Strategy Specialist

Corporate Strategy Advisor

Commercial Strategy Manager

Senior Corporate Strategy Advisor

Strategy & Market Specialist

Downstream Strategy & Planning Engineer

Strategy & Business Development Manager

Plant Director

Retail Operations

Trade Marketing Specialist

Responsibilities:&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul><li>Act as a “Strategy Advisor” for the Liquids-to-Chemicals (LTC) program and related issues, and provide relevant strategic and process-related insights to the LTC Business &amp; Project Development Department.</li><li>Provide commercial and technical expertise in executing the downstream strategy, including appraisal of strategic options, identification of strategic tradeoffs and implementation plans.</li><li>Take a leading role in the development and updating of the LTC’ s strategy in coordination with other subject-matter experts within the various business and service lines.</li><li>Generate and propose strategic options, backed up with the appropriate analysis</li><li>Originate, organize and implement management-agreed studies and investigations into planning and program implementation studies.</li><li>Provide expert support to ensure successful project delivery.</li><li>Mentor, train, and develop less-senior professionals.</li></ul> Requirements:&nbsp; <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or closely-related specialty; an MBA or a relevant advanced degree is strongly preferred.</li><li>At least 15 years’ experience in strategy development, strategic planning and scenario planning in an oil, gas, and/or petrochemicals industry context; preferably in a combination of technical, operational, commercial and strategic roles.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Acts as a “Corporate Advisor” for corporate strategy and related issues, and provides relevant strategic and process-related insight to the Strategic Planning Department, the Corporate Planning organization, the CEO, and members of Corporate Management.</li><li>Supports the development and update of the Company’s Corporate Strategy in coordination with other business strategists and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) within the Corporate Planning organization and the various business and support lines.&nbsp;</li><li>Generates and proposes to corporate and executive management strategic options backed up with the appropriate analysis.</li><li>Facilitates and monitors periodic corporate-wide strategy execution reviews to measure progress of the various business and enabling strategies, and identify early warning signs and possible areas of adjustment.</li><li>Conducts strategic performance analysis, including: past and future performance trends; investment plan analysis; strategic fit analysis of key investments; and execution capability assessments.</li><li>Provides an independent perspective on the company’s readiness to deliver on its strategy and progress towards realization of its strategic intent.</li><li>Cultivate key matrix relationships across the organization and be able to persuade counterparts at different levels and advance corporate strategic thinking to ensure the organization is proactive in adjusting or developing its strategy.</li><li>Prepares research and special studies and analyses as required, for the Corporate Planning organization and various Corporate Committees.</li><li>Prepares for, facilitates, and follows through on strategy and portfolio review meetings.&nbsp;</li><li>Builds and maintains strong relationships with consultancies, industry experts, and best-in-class companies, keeping abreast of key developments in the strategic performance management space and other arenas that could impact the company’s competitive performance.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Financial Management or closely related discipline; advanced degree is highly desirable.</li><li>Must have 10+ years’ experience with the last 5+ in a similar function within a major energy company or consultancy house.</li><li>Must have a deep understanding of the latest oil and gas, chemicals, refining, sustainability and new energy industry trends, developments, strategies and technologies.&nbsp;</li><li>Specifically, candidate must be well-versed in the new energies space, including market and investment trends, policy and regulatory environment, commercialization, and market entry strategies.</li><li>Must have experience in developing strategy, and validating and measuring strategic performance at the Corporate level.</li><li>Must have a proven ability to effectively challenge conventional thinking, and influence others to do the same.</li><li>Must have strong project management, problem solving, and change management skills.</li><li>Must be a master of Enterprise Performance Management practices and processes, and be comfortable leading and facilitating the implementation of new practices.</li><li>Must have a proven ability to quickly build and maintain positive and effective networks with internal and external stakeholders of all organizational levels.</li><li>Must have a proven ability to develop a positive, effective and collaborative rapport with senior management, co-workers, and stakeholders using tact and diplomacy.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Support in the development of short-and long-term vision and strategic plans for commercial strategy and new business models, both from market perspective and portfolio.</li><li>Generate insights from internal advanced analytics and screening of commercial development of the industry to initiate commercial strategy and business digitalization development activities.</li><li>Conduct complex multi-brand/multi-region analysis to understand the size of the opportunity and define appropriate KPIs and measures of success.</li><li>Understand the current vs future state of the business and identify key requirements/capabilities (technical and operational) needed to support the strategy.</li><li>Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost and expenses.</li><li>Work alongside the Marketing Director and Head of B2B2C to support the strategic planning and prioritization of marketing spend recommending appropriate investment levels at a market and channel level, to maximize ROI, brand development &amp; longer-term business growth.</li><li>Create key commercial presentations for the Executive Board and Senior Management Team on business performance.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>10+ years’ experience of strategy &amp; business model creation</li><li>Excellent problem solving, strategic &amp; data-driven thinking and analytical skills</li><li>Ability to manage projects in a cross-functional context with excellent knowledge of project management tools, techniques, and methodologies</li><li>Outstanding team working and communication skills</li><li>Fluency in English &amp; French both written &amp; spoken</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Acts as a “Corporate Advisor” for Corporate Strategy and related issues and provides relevant strategic and process-related insight to the Strategic Planning Department, the Corporate Planning organization, the CEO and members of Corporate Management.</li><li>Takes a leading role in the development and update of the Company’s Corporate Strategy in coordination with other business strategists and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) within the Corporate Planning organization and the various business and support lines.&nbsp;</li><li>Generates and proposes to corporate and executive management strategic options backed up with the appropriate analysis.</li><li>Prepares research and special studies and analyses as required, for the Corporate Planning organization and various Corporate Committees.</li><li>Coordinates with all groups of Strategic Planning and other departments of Corporate Planning to develop the analysis required for the development and update of the Corporate Strategy.</li><li>Must cultivate key matrix relationships across the organization and be able to persuade counterparts at different levels and advance corporate strategic thinking to ensure the organization is proactive in adjusting or developing its strategy.</li><li>Interfaces, influences, and collaborates with a group of SMEs, strategists and professionals across the organization responsible for articulating and crafting business strategies from the Company’s Strategic Plan, including challenging strategic analysis, and assisting in clarifying objectives.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or closely related specialty, with graduate degree highly desirable.&nbsp;</li><li>The ideal candidate will have spent most of her/his career in oil &amp; gas, preferably in relevant departments of a major oil &amp; gas company and supplemented by consulting experience in the energy practice of a major international consulting firm.&nbsp;</li><li>The candidate will be a recognized energy industry expert and thought leader in energy company strategy, and up to date on the latest developments, drivers and paths for the energy industry.</li><li>The candidate must have solid experience in strategy development, strategic planning and scenario planning in an oil &amp; gas – and wider energy – industry context.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in a combination of technical, operational, commercial and strategic roles is desirable, with at least 5-10 years’ experience in a Corporate Strategy or Corporate Planning role, where the Advisor will have had a key role in company strategy development and regularly interfaced with top management (CEO, Business Leaders).</li><li>The Candidate must be able to independently initiate research to formulate, coherently articulate, and present ideas and initiatives assessing issues or opportunities impacting the Company’s strategy or performance.</li><li>The candidate will have regularly prepared and presented to Corporate Management and Board level, as well as across organizational levels and at external fora such as conferences, and must therefore be able to quickly build the trust and respect of Executive Committee members, senior management and peers.</li><li>The candidate will have worked in an international setting, with a sound appreciation of working with multi-national teams.</li></ul>

Organization Overview: <ul><li>Our Client is seeking a Strategy &amp; Market Specialist to join their Strategic Studies &amp; Market Analysis Division (SS&amp;MA) in the Crude Oil Sales &amp; Marketing Department (COSMD), located in Dhahran.&nbsp;</li><li>The SS&amp;MA is responsible for providing support to the business through the following functions: Market Analysis, Strategy, Planning, Performance Monitoring &amp; Reporting, and Data Management.</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>The incumbent should provide expertise in a specialized area with crude oil placement strategy and market analysis.</li><li>Focused on developing expertise in a specialized area to support departmental needs.</li><li>Works under the direction of the group leader and/or department head.</li><li>Participates in analysis and strategy development that addresses short- and -long term. highly complex issues and problems as required by senior management.</li><li>Mentors, trains, and develops others.</li><li>Undertakes complex studies within developed area of expertise that can impact the company present and future operations.</li><li>The nature of most assignments is such that incumbent acts independently with agreed objectives.</li><li>Regularly monitors the development of existing and emerging market trends to forecast their viability and evolution over time.&nbsp;</li><li>Frequently directs and/or coordinates work task forces on special studies and consults directly with Executive Management on issues as they arise.&nbsp;</li><li>Prepares and presents plans, analyses, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations to Management and others on a broad range of petroleum market issues as they arise.</li><li>Provides expert advice and guidance on complex planning and analysis problems to senior planning and analytical personnel and to Executive Management.</li></ul>&nbsp;Requirements: <ul><li>A successful candidate should be holding a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Marketing, Economics, or Engineering from a recognized and approved program.</li><li>A relevant advanced degree in economics, energy, or MBA may also be an advantage.</li><li>As a minimum requirement, the candidate must have over 7 years in the downstream petroleum industry with extensive experience in the Asian crude oil markets and assumed responsibilities including market analysis and research, refinery feedstock procurement and optimization, or crude oil trading/marketing.</li><li>Candidate needs to have mature knowledge of global crude oil market balances and flows; pricing dynamics and structures; and methodologies of reporting agencies and exchange contracts. Familiarity with refinery and petrochemicals, linear programming, and investment financial modelling are also highly.</li></ul> Working Environment <ul><li>Our Clients high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities they offer, and are remunerated accordingly.</li><li>Their employees work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, our client is faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, they invest heavily in talent development.</li><li>Our client has proud history of educating and training their workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through the workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.</li></ul>

Role Description: <ul><li>Downstream Strategy &amp; Planning Engineer to join our Strategy &amp; Capital Planning Division within the Business Optimization Department (BOD) of our Downstream Business Line. BOD is responsible for all Downstream assets’ operations, planning, profit and loss, and capital plans for wholly-owned and affiliates.</li><li>The Downstream Strategy &amp; Planning Engineer’s primary role is to review and recommend capital plans in line with our Downstream strategy.</li></ul> Responsibilities <ul><li>Assist in the technical development and economic justification of capital programs and alternatives to proposed capital projects.&nbsp;</li><li>Evaluate margin improvements opportunities in current refining and chemicals assets in context with the competitive landscape and market fundamentals.&nbsp;</li><li>Liaise with other departments to identify growth opportunities and capture synergies between assets.</li><li>Support sustainability projects in line with environmental standards and decarbonization targets.</li><li>Provide commercial and technical expertise in executing the downstream strategy, including appraisal of strategic options, identification of strategic tradeoffs and implementation plans.</li><li>Assist in developing and reviewing commercial agreements and Progression.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering related field, MBA or a relevant advanced degree is strongly preferred.</li><li>Minimum of 15 years of professional experience in business development, with a strong track record of economic and commercial evaluations for major chemicals and refining projects, and a deep understanding of associated operations and integration of assets.</li><li>LP experience, preferably with PIMS, to evaluate business cases in different development scenarios.</li><li>An in-depth and current understanding of the global energy market and its trends, as well as economic and financial models.</li><li>Expert in international business and cross-cultural professional practices.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Lead the development of strategic plans and manage execution of Base Oils Strategy. </li><li>Provide information for senior management decision-making by the Retail &amp; Lubricant Administrative area.</li><li>Create and update comprehensive industry, competitor and customer segment models to provide a foundation for business growth and investments.</li><li>Develop data sources and analysis on all key elements of the Alliance financials, customer portfolio performance and growth initiatives.</li><li>Develop and maintain relationships with Affiliate Leadership, key internal entities in&nbsp;&nbsp;and its local and international affiliates, to identify emerging needs and business challenges.</li><li>Provides market and competitive insights through presentations and reports to the Executive Leadership Team, Affiliate Leadership and various internal management teams, to allow effective strategic and tactical decision-making and implementation.</li><li>Supplies the market and competitive intelligence component of strategic planning, and proactively makes recommendations to management concerning key intelligence items that require further consideration.</li><li>Build strong relationships with Affiliate strategy stakeholders globally.</li><li>Present investment and development strategies to senior management and secure their buy-in.</li><li>Be the segment expert in base oils markets and industry.</li><li>Mentor and develop group analysts.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business and Finance. MBA Degree preferred.</li><li>At least 20 years’ experience in Oil &amp; Gas industry with strategy, business development and/or Mergers &amp; Acquisitions.</li><li>At least 5 years’ experience in the Base Oils business within sales, business development, strategy and/or Mergers &amp; Acquisitions.</li><li>Experienced with economic analysis.</li><li>Ability to communicate and experience delivering communications to executive management.</li><li>International work experience &amp; ability to engage different cultures and people from different backgrounds.</li><li>Experience in developing business plans and market outlooks or forecasts.</li><li>Proven manager and leader of business department or projects.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Plan or assist in planning annual or project-specific budgets, ensuring that budgets and financial performance are in accordance with business strategic initiatives.</li><li>Manage overall financial performance of department, including reviewing and analyzing financial statements and data and other appropriate financial information, to monitor attainment of financial goals; Develop and implement effective cost containment/reduction strategies that result in demonstrated savings.</li><li>Make strategic decisions, considering immediate and long-term implications, benefits and costs, and risks associated with decision alternatives.</li><li>Identify and implement new ideas, technologies, or processes to increase organizational efficiency, productivity, quality, safety, and cost-savings.</li><li>Maintain an in-depth understanding of the organizations strengths, weaknesses, and resources, identifying potential organizational problems and opportunities.</li><li>Monitor the execution of business plans to ensure successful completion of action plans.</li><li>Set and communicate performance expectations and goals, and how these contribute to the strategy.</li></ul>&nbsp;Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelors degree or equivalent, preferably in Management, Business, Supply Chain, Manufacturing; or Masters Level University Degree in Management, Business, Supply Chain, Manufacturing or related field</li><li>Strong Financial Acumen with Plant Manufacturing/Plant Budgeting experience</li><li>Strong Operations Management through Root Cause Analysis, Loss Analysis, Cost Improvement, Operations Improvements, Operations Capability, Process/System Assessment, Operations Strategy</li><li>Workforce Management</li><li>General Operations: New Product Launches, Best Practices and/or Process Management</li><li>General understanding of Safety/ Food Safety Regulations Quality Standards experience&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Analyze demand, demographics, infrastructure and overall market evolution for the geographical areas where the retail activities are present or where there is intention to expand.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop site segmentation tools and evaluate competitive scenario.</li><li>Review operational details, investment valuations, plans, costs, and actions.&nbsp;</li><li>Oversee the development of the retail operating models, the merchandising strategy, supply chain and partnerships for the c-store operation.</li><li>Coordinate across markets the offer for the car washes and oil change services.</li><li>Oversee the introduction of specialty fuel products and coordinate pricing strategies across markets and affiliates.</li><li>Ensure the transfer of best practices in retail operations across the markets and affiliates.&nbsp;</li><li>Set up an investment review process and implement a regular performance analysis for new investments to verify the achievements against the original business plan parameters. Make recommendations both in terms of investment planning and definition of assumptions.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor in Business administration, Marketing, Economics or Engineering discipline</li><li>At least ten years of experience in fuel retail operations matured at different organizational levels within major international oil companies.&nbsp;</li><li>Exposure to corporate level / international oversight roles is essential.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Plan , lead and handle overall execution of brand activation caledar in line with the MWB and support project planning.</li><li>Customize &amp; implement bespoke programs (as per brand guidelines)&nbsp;</li><li>Brand theme activities: Sundowners, Pool Parties, Cocktail Week, Negroni Week, Father’s Day, Valentines, Whisky Appreciations, etc&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Plan , lead , execute the bar staff training calendar for the portfolio&nbsp;</li><li>Ensuring training and development of the execution force through on the job training and scheduling training calendar ( Distributor + Commercial Teams ), deployment of tools i.e. CAO&nbsp;</li><li>Drive on-trade segmentation in line with global model yet relevant to India RTM</li><li>Ensure that merchandise standards “The Perfect Store” are adhered to for best in class execution of all BTL activations</li><li>Create a on trade scorecard for KPI definition for On-premise accounts / national chains&nbsp;</li><li>Work collaboratively with the brand marketing and commercial sales teams ( India &amp; the distributor teams), leading the development and implementation of BTL Activity calendar in line with our Must Win Battle.&nbsp;</li><li>Ensures POS is 100% compliant with the Brand Guideline &amp; 100% fit for purpose, in sufficient quantities to achieve visibility objectives in all relevant outlets,as per the annual aligned plan&nbsp;</li><li>Support in the development and execution of Consumer &amp; Shopper activations, including point of sale, gift packs ( packaging &amp; gifts ), in-store displays, sales toolkits and sampling activations, consistent with Perfect Store guidelines .</li><li>Customize visibility initiatives for outlets&nbsp;</li><li>Explore opportunities in image outlets in both on &amp; off trade</li><li>Brand walls, wall bays , shelf in shelf , festive gandolas etc&nbsp;</li><li>Incentive planning &amp; deployment to drive recommendation&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>End to end execution of the training modules supported by the local or national training agency &amp; commercial teams&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Partner with the key local bartenders to nurture and execute dialogue content – menu creation , bespoke drinks , cocktail menu’s , pairings , leverage their digital reach by promoting our drinks etc&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Proven track record of working in On/Off Trade - Key Accounts Sales, Retail Sales , Brand Management or Trade Activation (2-6 yrs).</li><li>Demonstrated experience in managing expense budgets, procurement, and both Agency and Customer relationships&nbsp;</li><li>Post Graduation Degree with relevant subject focus preferred</li><li>Demostated ability to work within cross functional teams, and showcase influencing skills</li><li>Experience managing large cross functional commercial projects desirable</li><li>Strong relationships in On Premise and Bartender community</li><li>Knowledge of the Liquor industry and regulatory environment, and communication guidelines</li><li>Knowledge of the on-premise activaiton planning/ management/ operation&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to network and build strong relationships&nbsp;</li></ul>

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