Specialist, Product Supply - Ohio

Worker Type: Employee

Group: Refining Supply US Department

Job Post End Date: 12/13/2024

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Specialist, Product Supply – Ohio for our Dublin, OH location. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Refining Supply, this highly influential role requires leading without authority, comfort with ambiguity, as well as coaching and mentoring other team members. The Product Supply team will be accountable for product optimization of 300KBD+ finished and unfinished streams (gasoline/diesel/jet, intermediates), totaling $5+ Billion USD/yr. The Specialist will coordinate the supply of / maximize Cenovus group value from: Finished Products, non-Crude Feedstocks (excluding NGL), and intermediates across the Ohio Network (Lima and Toledo Refineries). The Specialist will also provide valuation to market-facing trading and marketing team (TSL), informing strategy for Cenovus Product Network balancing, influencing diverse, cross-functional, and multi-locational teams.

What you’ll do:

• Provide direction to market-facing traders and marketers regarding all buying and selling of finished products and intermediate feedstocks/products on behalf of the refineries. Use refinery and network values to optimize incremental finished production for the Ohio Refining Network (Toledo and Lima Refineries).
• Manage and coordinate the purchasing, scheduling, and delivery of robust optimal feedstock / intermediates to meet the refinery run plans.
• Drive risk management of intermediate and product inventory/movements with trading and marketing teams.
• Main interface between short range (0-3 month) and mid-range (4-24 month) planning on product, logistical, and storage opportunity evaluation.
• Recommend product flexibility and pricing for LP process (Pricing Coordinator has Decide on Demand, Traders have Decide on pricing).
• Lead the use of working capital for intermediates and blendstocks stored outside of the refinery.  Work with the refinery teams to define and agree working capital and safety stock limits within the refinery gate. 
• Drive performance with the Product Quality team to provide technical assurance and monitoring of product quality giveaway. Work with Refinery teams to optimize and minimize product quality giveaway, continuously looking for longer term structural improvements.
• Provide backfill coverage for other members of Supply team (Crude, Product, NGL).

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics
• 12+ years of experience in Oil & Gas, strongly preferring experience in Refinery Process Engineering and Production Planning / Economics and Scheduling.

Preferred:

• Experience in Refinery Process Engineering and Production Planning / Economics and Scheduling
• Ability to analyze complex information & details, and present findings in a clear concise format
• Advanced technical understanding of product quality, refinery constraints, production planning / product supply chain
• Experience with liquid commodities
• Collaborator, able to respectfully and effectively influence others with potentially conflicting priorities.
• Leader and mentor/coach essential to managing and developing Supply Team, as well as teams at the refineries, helping build a stable pipeline of talent
• Communicator who develops credibility with diverse organizations from operations to executive management, clearly communicating plans, values, and risks
• Intermediate to Advanced LP Model Interpretation (model running not required)
• Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills with familiarity of Visual Basic (VBA), SQL, R/Python, Power BI, and other MS Office suite
• Price fundamentals, risk based decision making, and risk management knowledge will be an asset - Intermediate understanding of trading fundamentals, market structure will be an asset
• Base knowledge of U.S. and Canadian Product markets for Toledo, Lima, Superior, developing to expert level
• Sound understanding of logistical interfaces between pipe, rail and marine transportation interconnects
• Ability to respond effectively to the needs of diverse situations while maximizing Cenovus Group value.

What we offer:

• Company-provided medical and dental benefits
• Time-off
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Tuition & Professional Development Assistance

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

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