WHO IS OUR CLIENT?

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 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.

WHAT IS YOUR CHALLENGE?

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/sales agreements for all refined products, representing Saudi Aramco in the relevant offtakers discussion and meetings, assuring continuous and healthy relationship between Domestic Joint Venture and Saudi Aramco as a products Offtaker and feedstock supplier.

REQUIREMENTS

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

RESPONSABILITIES

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 interest and/or improve operations and logistics, acting as a focal point for all commercial communication with JVs.
• Assure continuous and healthy relationship 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 fulfilment 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 implication.
• Provide logistical and operational input to discussion of domestic pricing committee.

REWARDS & BENEFITS OVERVIEW

Our client offers excellent compensation and industry-leading benefits and other programs designed to meet the diverse needs of their employees and their families.

Salary - commensurate with experience and individual qualifications.

Salary packages can include expatriate premiums & supplemental benefits plans

Annual bonus

Housing: housing allowance

Healthcare: Access to top-notch healthcare is an important part of working as an expatriate for our client.

Dependent Education: High School allowance

Annual vacation: 22 days of vacation leave per year. In addition to annual vacations days, employees also receive 11 paid company holidays each year.

Repatriation allowance: Annually round trip to your home country.

THE STAGES OF THIS PROCESS ARE:

1. Resume Evaluation: A member of our recruitment team will evaluate that your resume matches the client's job description requirement.

Use the job description requirements to highlight your relevant experience and skills.

Be specific and describe the significance of your work, keyword alignment is important. Emphasize the impact of the work you've contributed to HR areas and tasks. Use your professional profile/resume to focus on major accomplishments and qualifications that match the job.

If your resume evaluation is suitable for this position, the recruitment team will invite you to a preliminary phone/video interview in 2-3 days.

If your resume evaluation is not suitable, you will be receiving an e-mail notification in 2-3 days.

2. Interviews stage

2.1 LHR Americas preliminary phone/video interview: A member of the Talent Acquisition team from LHR Americas will first schedule a call with you to discuss the details of the position, your interests, and qualifications. Furthermore, your English level will be evaluated at this stage, ONLY native or advanced speakers will approve this evaluation.

If this preliminary phone/video interview is successful your resume will be submitted to our client.

If your preliminary phone/video interview is not successful our Talent Acquisition consultant will inform you.

2.2 Client phone/video interview: This interview will happen only if your resume is approved by our client, we cannot guarantee the time our Client will take to approve your resume, but it should take less than a week.

If your resume is approved a member of the Talent Acquisition Team from our client will schedule a call with you to evaluate your qualifications.

The client interview contains technical questions that help assess your familiarity with problem-solving in your given field and may include a behavioral evaluation. Be prepared to explain how you approach problems and produce solutions.

If your phone interview is successful, the hiring team will further evaluate your resume, and they will invite you to a video interview when hiring managers are available.

If your resume is not approved, LHR Americas will inform you.

2.3 Video interviews with hiring managers: which may also contain technical questions that help us assess your familiarity with problem-solving in your given field.

3. Conditional Offer

A successful interview may result in a conditional offer of employment.

Conditions for employment include but are not limited to: medical examinations, and permission to secure a visa to work and reside in-country.

4. Relocation process

After your offer is accepted and all conditions for employment are met, you will be assigned a relocation advisor from LHR Americas. This advisor is your go-to resource for the transition, providing helpful advice on everything from when to give notice to your current employer to visa services.