Job Description
What You Can Expect
The successful candidate will be responsible for active BASF Oil & Gas Business development in West Africa, to lead development initiatives and integrate and align with various BASF business units having touch points with the Oil & Gas value chain.
Duties will include the following:
- To provide strategy and analysis for entry into new markets
- To further market share and growth in existing markets, in close collaboration with the business units.
- Investigating business opportunities with significant scale and synergies to drive growth and leverage current portfolio of products in target markets and applications.
- Developing and commercializing existing and new platform opportunities to support market growth.
- Generate market intelligence for relevant industry segments in alignment with the BASF Africa strategy.
- Accumulating industry knowledge, insights and contacts.
- Identify and establish relationship with key direct stakeholders and upstream/downstream industry players, experts , consultants and regulatory bodies.
- Maintain subject matter expertise in selected areas, staying abreast of developments and best prac-tices internally and externally
- Lead project teams to meet business objectives.
- Interacting and cooperating with relevant internal interfaces, service units and external parties.
- Being an operational arm for market development team to enable localization pilots.
What We Expect
- A relevant University qualification in a Technical or Scientific field (Oil refining & Petrochemical pre-ferred).
- A Post Graduate qualification in Business Management would be a distinct advantage
- Minimum of 5 years experience working in development and utilization within Oil & Gas industry.
- Ability to demonstrate high flexibility in complex market environments
- High levels of business savviness and ability to think independently
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Effective teambuilding skills.
We Offer
- Responsibility from day one in a challenging work environment and on-the-job training as part of a com-mitted team.
- Competitive compensation including attractive benefits as well as excellent career opportuni-ties in an international company.