Joint Venture Offtake Specialist

Job description / Role

Overview

Aramco energizes the world economy. Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations-spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking a Joint Venture Offtake Specialist to join our Global Optimizer Development Department. The Global Optimizer Development Department's (GOD) charter is to optimize crude allocation and the operations of global manufacturing facilities in order to maximize revenue, increase profitability, and capture international market opportunities.

You will be responsible for assuring full compliance with offtake and sales agreements for all refined products, representing Saudi Aramco in the relevant offtakers' discussions and meetings, assuring a continuous and healthy relationship between Domestic Joint Venture and Saudi Aramco as a products offtaker and feedstock supplier.

As the successful candidate, you will be required to perform the following:

• Consult Fuels Business Management (FBM), Law, Aramco Trading Company (ATC), and other concerned internal or external organizations in order to protect the company's rights as an offtaker and/or feedstock supplier in relation to such legal commitments.
• Represent Aramco to propose to the JV refinery and the other offtaker new arrangements that could protect Aramco's interests and/or improve operations and logistics, acting as a focal point for all commercial communication with JVs.
• Assure continuous and healthy relationships between Domestic Joint Ventures (DJV) and Saudi Aramco as an offtaker and/or feedstock supplier. This includes, but is not limited to, organizing and attending offtaker meetings, following up on agreed action items, and extending support to DJVs, as required, in a manner that does not exceed the operational side of the business.
• Connect and interact with Oil Supply Planning and Scheduling (OSPAS) operations coordination teams in the day-to-day execution of the Kingdom demand fulfillment plan and of the DJV lifting schedules.
• Monitor the JV refineries' production plans, lifting programs, entitlements, allocation and inventories, and contractual compliance of all deals in order to assure optimum utilization and highest realization for the refinery and Saudi Aramco.
• Interface with OSPAS coordination for all operational implementation of changes of non-standard cargoes, imports, demands, and respective commercial implications.
• Provide logistical and operational input to discussions of the domestic pricing committee.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate, you must hold a Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Marketing, Engineering, Business Administration, or closely related specialty.
• Post-graduate education or equivalent experience in Master of Business Administration, Finance, or Economics is desirable.
• Comprehensive knowledge of refineries sales, planning, and operations.
• 5 to 10 years relevant professional experience (preferably in oil and gas downstream business), including several years in the field as offtake, sales, or contracts specialist including refinery sales unit, trading supply optimization, corporate planning, contracting department, and business development.
• Experience in the downstream oil and gas industry specifically in refineries planning and sales, and capable of understanding and interpreting commercial agreements. Proven ability to handle complex problems and carry out commercial discussions.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people 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, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.