Marketing Manager | Oryx GTL Doha, Qatar

The Role
To manage the function; develop strategies with an emphasis on maximizing growth, revenue and profitability, monitoring plant and market performance against delivery timeline objectives and targets, maintaining positive internal and external customer relations so as to promote and position ORYX GTL products with the organisational mission and vision.

Function Strategy Formulation
• As a senior member of the Marketing function, contributes to the formulation and implementation of the Marketing functional strategy and plans as appropriate to the function / business line needs and objectives.
• Lead the development of sales and marketing strategies together with the marketing Agent.
Department Management
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the Marketing department in line with the Tendering and Credit committee policies and procedures, national tendering guidelines and international best practices; providing expertise, encouraging and ensuring teamwork, aligning work processes in order to achieve high performance standards, meet established targets, objectives and employee engagement in a motivated work environment.
• Exercise financial authority within established limits and controls departmental budget expenditure.
• Liaise and coordinate with internal and external parties at the appropriate levels to support and ensure execution and smooth flow of the company?¦s business.
Marketing Management
• Manage the interfacing activity between Oryx GTL and external party agents in order to ensure a smooth completion of the job under purview in a safe and timely manner.
• Monitor the inventory management process so as to align production expectations with client expectations and / or order book.
• Establish and agree minimum performance criteria against which the marketing Agent will be measured.
• Participate in joint visits to buyers of Oryx products.
• Chair Marketing Committee meetings at which Shareholders are present.
Lifting Plan Management
• Manage and liaise with Oryx GTL production and lab personnel regarding lockdown, quantities available in off tank and sample result timelines so as to ensure an uninterrupted delivery as per client contractualised shipment dates.
Marketing Management
• Manage and monitor effective shipment planning efforts to remain abreast with production schedules so as to avoid tank top, thus shut downs.
• Manage the rectification and certification of invoices related to work performed in order to safeguard Oryx GTL’s financials and to ensure an accurate payment to the concerned external party.
• Ensure Oryx GTL does not burden predictable technical or financial liabilities so as to facilitate a minimal risk exposure.
Management Reporting & Ad-hoc Project Representation
• Ensure ongoing reporting (including MIS) to superiors in order to keep them abreast with regard to Marketing processes – from a performance aspect – status, as requested.
• Support on demand Marketing related initiatives in order to ensure various ad-hoc requirements foreseen by Oryx GTL are met.

Requirements
Minimum Qualification:
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Business Administration or Economics.
• Master’s in a related discipline would be preferred.

Minimum Experience:
• 8 – 10 years in a supply chain function preferably in the Oil & Gas Sector.

Job Specific Skills:
• Health and Safety Systems
• Operational Systems Knowledge
• Business Skills and Understanding
• Time Management
• Communication
• Minimise demurrage costs.
• Minimum shut downs due to Marketing activities.
• Ability to meet stipulated Qatarisation targets.
• HSE unit attests the Commercial and Marketing department?¦s adherence to organisational HSE policies, standards and procedures.
• Individual objectives, training development plans in place for all direct reports within the timescales defined by the corporate performance management process. Frequency of feedback and appraisal meetings.

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