Sr Expert Commercial

NES Fircroft; Stavanger; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

NES Fircroft in Stavanger seeks a Senior Expert Commercial to own and optimize the value chain from wellhead to customer, coordinating with trading entities, operations and finance to maximize value. You will identify opportunities, develop capacity booking and product sales strategies, and oversee invoicing with Finance while ensuring compliant reporting and risk management.

The role requires English negotiation skills, a university degree, and at least five years of upstream industry

Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering, Business, or Economics.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in upstream and gas transportation.
• Strong English negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to analyze complex projects and work with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and optimize value chain from wellhead to customer.
• Identify, assess, present and implement optimization opportunities.
• Develop and implement capacity booking strategies and product sales strategies.
• Ensure commercial operations administration, internal/external reporting, risk management and value tracking.
• Prepare and validate invoicing with Finance.
• Provide commercial input for planning/forecasting.
• Hold overall responsibility for resolving operational issues and preserving daily sales value.
• Negotiate and supervise gas sales and agency agreements; interface with trading entities.

Skills

Negotiation

Strong communication

Stakeholder management

MS Office

PowerBI

English language

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Business/Economics

Tools

PowerBI

Reporting tools

IT interfaces

Job description

Sr Expert Commercial

Contract period: ASAP - one year duration

Location: Stavanger

Main tasks:

• Define and optimize entire value chain from wellhead to customer, internal and/or external.
• Identify, assess, present and implement optimization opportunities
• Develop and implement capacity booking strategies and product sales strategies
• Ensure the commercial operations administration, internal and external reporting, risk management and value tracking
• Prepare and validate invoicing with the Finance department
• Provide commercial input for medium and long term planning/forecasting
• Hold Company main responsibility for resolving operational issues and preserving the value of daily sales
• Uses industry network in Norway to find solutions and negotiate deals to resolve these operational issues
• Hold overall responsibility for the gas dispatching contract and ensure the contract is benchmarked, updated and renewed, as required
• Act as local integration interface with Company trading entities for specific tasks and activities
• Provide quality commercial support to other Company departments
• Negotiate and supervise agreements necessary to implement the above (including gas sales agreements and sales agency agreements)
• Participate in license committees and all other relevant business fora as agreed with the Commercial Lead
• Deliver presentations and participate in miscellaneous project reviews and analysis
• Be instrumental in securing project deadlines and ensuring that schedules are being met
• Develop and maintain a Norwegian business network covering all aspects of the job
• Secure compliance with all relevant regulations (Norwegian state, Field and Infrastructure Operators as well as and Company’s internal regulations)

Qualifications:

• Education – University degree Bachelor within Engineer/ Business/ Economics
• Relevant professional experience minimum 5 years
• Good knowledge of and insight to the Norwegian upstream segment and gas transportation system
• Experience from administration/operation of gas and/or oil sales
• Robust capacity to manage specific IT interfaces with external providers and internal reporting tools
• Ability to analyse complex projects that interface with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
• Comfortable in making independent sound business decisions on short notice with the ability to follow-up and implement
• Negotiation skills in English (written & spoken)
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent inter-personal, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to engage effectively with both internal & external stakeholders
• Self-driven, positive and committed attitude, highly organised and resilient
• Ability to work well in a team
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI)

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining andManufacturingsectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.