Supply Manager - Biofuels & Oil Products

A great opportunity to join this well established blender & supplier of oil products & renewable fuels who are looking for somebody who can be relied on to find the optimal supply portfolio for its fast growing fuel blending businesses. The right candidate will have 5-10 years’ experience working in a supply and/or trading/commercial environment, ideally in the oil products and/or biofuels field. Some complimentary supply operations experience would also be an advantage.
 
Main responsibilities

Responsible for planning and sourcing finished biofuels and bio-feedstocks for the company’s blending business.

• Find new suppliers of bio-components and biofuels
• Work with Supply Operations/site to maintain efficient operations

 
Responsible for planning and sourcing feedstocks for company’s more general fuels .

• Deal with UK refiners/importers to source gasoil/kerosene on term and spot basis.
• Deal with producers/brokers to source spot fuel cargos
• Deal with ship broker to procure shipping and manage demurrage claims.

 
Provide the business with on-going assessments of market supply/demand balances.
 
Provide the business with quantitative assessments of different blending opportunities.
 
Work with Supply Operations & Sales

• to develop a feedstock procurement plan
• to coordinate the use of new components
• to maintain good, productive relationships with suppliers

 
Opportunity to do business development work with 3rd party customers to increase the penetration of biofuels into new sectors.
Develop a wide counterparty network in the UK/European market

Required Qualifications

• Effective negotiating skills and ability to analyse and make decisions
• Numeracy and the ability to develop an analytical approach to solving problems
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate with international counterparties
• Previous biofuels (finished biofuels and bio-feedstocks) experience in a trading role preferred
• Previous downstream oil supply/trading experience (including operations) preferred.
• Well networked in the European biofuels market preferred.
• Awareness of exposure management  and hedging preferred.
• Ability to adjust to a dynamic environment
• Ability to handle multiple priorities

 
For more information, please contact Peter Morgan at p.morgan@elevenassociates.com