(Global Oil Gas) Senior Commercial Shipping Development Specialist
MatchaTalent
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Monitor marine market trends, analyzing and defining short and long-term marine transportation options to develop optimal product delivery strategies.
- Identify optimal vessels, negotiate rates, and short and long-term charter party terms.
- Define all commercial and contractual details for negotiated charter party terms.
- Develop and provide market research on vessel availability and freight economics, terminal projects, and shipping competitors.
- Coordinate closely with schedulers to nominate tonnage in a manner that will optimize system freight costs, minimize demurrage, and ensure timely delivery of cargoes.
- Communicate and liaise with shipowners and utility companies, and network and maintain relationships with market players to keep abreast of market developments and opportunities.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to build a fundamental shipping model in order to enable strategy decisions.
- Coordinate, analyze, and prepare transportation plan documents, ensuring quality and completion.
- Coordinate and analyze shipping operations expenses calculation and review, covering fuel-bunker and ship maintenance.
- Coordinate, monitor, and analyze fuel bunker consumption, ship maintenance, dry-docking, and activity to ensure all processes are completed effectively.
- Coordinate and analyze the consolidation of information and reports on issues during loading, sailing, and discharging to ensure availability of timely reports.
- Coordinate and participate in compatibility studies between ship and shore for buyers' terminal to ensure all requirements and conditions are incorporated for effective and efficient shipping operations.
- This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or related discipline; an MBA or a relevant advanced degree is strongly preferred.
- At least 15 years of professional experience in commercial shipping roles, with a proven track record of negotiation of long-term charter party agreements.
- Proven ability to analyze market data, develop models, use derivatives, and identify commercial opportunities.
- Proven effective negotiating skills and commercial judgment.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with multinational teams.