Worker Type: Employee
Group: Optimization Department
Job Post End Date: 07/08/2024
About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Coordination and Economics Manager, this senior incumbent works creatively and collaborates with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to improve the refinery’s overall business performance and compliance. The Senior Business Development Specialist will significantly influence the profitability of the business and is instrumental in maintaining compliance with current and future regulations.
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What you’ll do:

• Negotiate contracts up to $100 million and 15 years in length covering shared services with neighboring petrochemical facilities and utility suppliers covering a variety of utilities and services (e.g. steam, boiler feedwater, electricity, natural gas, fuel gas, process wastewater, rail switching, etc.)
• Prepare contract approval documents for Cenovus Senior Leadership approval, up to and including the Chief Executive officer and Board of Directors.
• Lead the Cenovus marketing team to negotiate and manage feedstock/co-product agreements between the refinery and neighboring petrochemical facilities.
• Collaborate with Government Affairs and Community Relations groups to advocate for Cenovus’s interests with legislative and regulatory bodies
• Serve as the principal commercial interface with suppliers of electricity, hydrogen, nitrogen, raw water, city water, and other key refinery inputs.
• Determine and manage the refinery’s buying strategy for the commodities listed above.
• Implement key infrastructure projects which support the business’ objectives of accessing economic crudes and profitable refined product markets -in partnership with the Cenovus Marketing and Supply teams.
• Implement a portfolio of site projects and commercial opportunities which increase refinery profitability that meet site and senior manager’s expectations.
• Lead special projects that advocate key growth and cost reduction projects covering a diverse range of topics.
• Lead/Coordinate Refinery Fuels Compliance Efforts and coordinate compliance activities with Refinery, Government Affairs, Corporate and Legal teams.
• Develop and track progress against annual site strategic objectives. Close collaboration is required with all stakeholders, both within and outside of the refinery.
• Communicate with other Cenovus facilities to share best practices and jointly develop solutions to common technical and business problems.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, or related course of study
• Minimum of ten years’ experience in the refining or chemical industries
• Understanding of Federal and state regulatory requirements
• Experience and/or overall awareness of all aspects of the Refining/Energy/Petrochemical

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Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.
Cenovus Energy is an affirmative action employer, and we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, or personal or physical characteristics protected by law.
Who we are:
We’re an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We’re committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.
We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States.
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The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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