Job Overview:
The Senior Pricing Subject Matter Associate is a key role in the Forecasting & Production group within the ST&O Digital Business Solution product team. This role will support value creation through managing pricing data, advising on global market trends, and providing strategic recommendations to ensure commercial competitive advantage and maximize profitability. This role reports to the Manager, Digital Products.
Key Accountabilities:
Strategic Vendor Management: Enverus
- Facilitate effective representation needs when engaging Enverus, a key supplier of critical pricing apps, including managing outstanding technical and product issues, manage the effective use of procured consulting (professional services) hours and drive an effective peer group Customer Advisory Board
- Enable consistent touchpoints between Enverus and the user base, including planning for onsite events and other workshops, presentations, and tutorials
- Ensure that Enverus Onboarding is effective and supports the broader ST&O onboarding/offboarding guidance
- Supporting the alignment between ST&O's strategy and the Enverus product roadmap, including the capture and communicating of internal user experience to Enverus to influence desired features to be developed
Pricing Data Vendor Management System
- Maintaining the Pricing and Market Intelligence vendor data repository
- Ensure that meaningful information can be extracted from this system via data tools (e.g. PowerBI)
Support for pricing data vendor relationship activities
- This includes support for: contract renewals, new products enablement, licensing hygiene and supporting D&IT/SCM in resolving outstanding invoices
- Optimize the suite of pricing and market intelligence tools that meet ST&O's functional needs to ensure excellence in usability, reliability, and timeliness. (Measured through user feedback & Service Level tracking.)
- Obtain understanding of vendor relationship, roadmap & current contractual obligations, penalties, etc, related to Services, Licensing, & Master Agreements.
Experience and Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. An advanced degree or MBA is preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in a similar role, preferably within the oil and gas industry.
- Proven experience with financial modeling, data analysis, and pricing models in the crude oil commodities market
Skills and Knowledge:
- Commercial experience in technology contracts and vendor management
- Pricing and risk management in a commodities trading environment
- Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and volatile market environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively present complex data.
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