Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

ROLE PURPOSE: Protect commercial interests of Orpic providing market intelligence to enhance the quality of price projections and also to ensure that adequate value is being retained within Orpic. Contributions in assessing local demand, monitoring deal sheets and commercial terms of sales, customer relationship management, exploring risk mitigation opportunities for Orpic are expected in this role.

This role reports to the Manager, Commercial Planning and Market Intelligence and confers with this position on critical and strategic issues.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Deliverables
- Assess the deal sheets, provide a market analysis on every deal to recommend decisions that need to be taken by SCM Management.
- Develop and maintain relationships with outside sources of information including hosting visiting consultants and systematically organisation and data mining the information from these reports / visits.
- Prepare and present market competitive analysis reports to all levels of management.
- Assist seniors in research and collation of ‘fundamental truths’ in the economy to help Orpic leadership determine key economic levers and develop a point of view.
- Assessing performance of contractual relationships with OTI and suppliers and service suppliers, drafting contracts, reviewing services agreements, to ensure targets are met within agreed timelines
- Assess local demand by researching and analysing actual basic economic indicators to ensure local demand for products is met.
- Prepare and present customer profiles reports to all levels of management.
- Manage proactively the reporting of market data to stakeholders as and when required so that they receive the most up to date information and facilitate decision making
- Identifying, prioritising, managing and meeting a range of reporting requirements across Orpic,
- Ensures that the department meets expectations set out in the Corporate KPIs, Function KPIs and Department KPIs applicable to the department.
- Contribute to and assist in presentations and materials development for internal and external audiences
- Personal work on feasibility studies on new projects or business improvements leading to prioritization and ranking of development and improvement projects.
- Maintain a decision support system within SCM to organise information in order to provide insights for Management decision making.
- Critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, and systems reconciling consistency conflicts, de-composing high-level information into details, abstracting up from low-level information to a general understanding to finally provide insights into the real issues the business is facing and recommend action plan to the functions to address such issues

Strategy
- Contribute in the development and execution of the Supply Chain Management long-term strategic plan in alignment with the function and organisation strategies.
- Contribute in the development of Commercial Planning & Market Intelligence business plans to ensure the achievement of function and organisation financial and strategic objectives.

Leadership
- Demonstrate personal leadership in project /task assigned to the person, resulting in a motivated, engaged, high performing and capable team delivering the department business plan.
- Actively engage in cross training of team members within the group and also provide dedicated training coaching time for staff in the department to enhance their capability.

Contract and Risk Management
- To execute and implement long term and short terms customer / supplier relationships and the OTI relationship protecting Orpic’s commercial interests
- To assess risk and devise mitigation measures to reduce the same to reduce commercial risk to Orpic.
- Provide recommendations to the Manager - CPMI and leadership direction to colleagues within Orpic including decisions and take necessary actions that will result in protecting the commercial interests of Orpic

Requirements

- Minimum Qualifications for this position is University degree in Engineering/ Economic / Finance/ Business or equivalent.
- Minimum two years of relevant experience in a similar role.
- Expertise of SAP or other ERP systems would be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of refining and petrochemical industry and processes

Skills:
- Proficiency in M/S Office
- Report developing
- Effectiveness analysis

Competencies:
- Personal Accountability
- Personal Credibility
- Through use of facts
- Analytical thinking
- Business Acumen
- Forward Thinking
- Decisiveness
- Result Orientation
- Planning & Organisation
- Managing Performance
- Developing Others
- Fostering team work
- Persuasive communication
- Building collaborative relationships

Due to the expected huge number of applicants, we may not be able to respond to all candidates. If you do not receive a call or an email within 15 days of sending your CV, your application has not been successful.

About the Company

Orpic is one of Oman’s largest and most rapidly growing businesses in the Middle East oil industry. Orpic’s refineries in Suhar and Muscat, as well as the aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Suhar, provide fuel, chemicals, plastics and other petroleum products, to Oman and the world.

Owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, Orpic’s impressive integration of refinery and plant operations coupled with its ambitious growth plans, has cemented its position as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking companies. The company currently recruits around 2,600 employees who work towards the common goal of an integrated Omani refining and petrochemicals business expected to increase to 3,000 by 2020.

Orpic is committed to operating safely and reliably, while paying due care to the environment and the communities within which it operates. The company strongly believes in serving Oman with pride.

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