Liquid to Chemical Business Development Specialist

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 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.

Overview

We are seeking a Business Development Specialist to join the Business Enablers & Commercial Readiness Division under the IK Liquids to Chemicals Program Development.

The division is responsible for overseeing and supporting all Liquid to Chemicals (LTC) program projects with the objective to ensure meeting mandates, milestones, and deliverables to meet the task objectives accordingly. In addition, oversee the implementation of project governance and its alignment with all stakeholders.

The candidate's primary role would be to direct activities related to sourcing, screening, analyzing the market and identifying petrochemical growth opportunities, conduct research to identify business opportunities for new chemical product planning and developing economic models that would best meet the project strategies and capital investment.

Key Responsibilities

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

1. Develop and provide technical input to economics modeling.
2. Develop chemical process yields, qualities and balances for process configurations in the refining & chemical units.
3. Strong experience in refining & chemicals derivative processes.
4. Familiarity with refining & chemicals technologies.
5. Provide insights and recommendations on the financial models output and guide management to select the best configurations for LTC projects cases.
6. Provide technical support for capital projects involving petrochemical units at various stages of the project life cycle (pre-feasibility, feasibility, pre-feed, feed basic design, detailed engineering and construction).
7. Analyze the market and identify opportunities for business growth.
8. Conduct research on competitors to identify opportunities for new products or services.
9. Research new technologies, regulations, and other factors that may affect the business model.
10. Establish new client relationships and maintain existing ones to generate revenue.
11. Deliver the tools, templates and systems to ensure the safe, passionate and flawless delivery of the project.
12. Liaison between Project Management and technical disciplines to achieve integration across all project disciplines.
13. Ensure that the Contractor has the appropriate tools and systems for executing the project.
14. Ensure scope, risk and interfaces are captured, manage interfaces between internal and external parties and documented.

Minimum Requirements

1. As the successful candidate you must hold a bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably Chemical Engineering, or alternatively a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, and Finance; with extensive experience in the refining and petrochemicals field.
2. At least 12-15 years of experience with a focus in the refining & petrochemicals business, preferably with a focus on GCC/MENA region from a market outlook perspective, including at least 2 years' experience in Economics Modeling focused on the downstream and petrochemicals industry.

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. 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.

Country/Region: SA