Essential Criteria
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or related field OR High School Diploma with 15 years demonstrated ability in refining
- 4 years of prior refining operations, optimization, planning, or projects experience
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
- Partner management and alignment across multiple levels and functional areas of an organization
- Proven commercial proficiency
- Strong tactical and critical thinking skills
Desirable Criteria
- Possess the ability to work with ambiguous situations, quickly set and communicate direction to resolve issues
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Role Synopsis
The Business Development Analyst is responsible for working with refinery to collect new project ideas from each asset area and complete one-pagers to progress project development. They ensure that Whiting’s strategic vision overlays all new investment decisions and business development activities.Key accountabilities
- New Project Idea Generation/Collection/Evaluation
- Engage with site asset leadership teams (ALTs), commercial team, stripe owners, and other SMEs to refresh project hopper, including findings from unit HAZOPs, LOPA, etc.
- Lead development of idea one-pagers with site support for new insights, including risk information, economics, cost and schedule
- Ensure project fit with overall site strategy and asset strategies, as well as competitiveness on P&O creaming curves
- Develop Nostra integration with project screening process
- Engage with appraisal engineers to develop site programs strategies and prioritize one pager development
- Participate in project development workshops to provide commercial and strategic lens for development
- Interact with site ALTs as needed to share information regarding plan revisions, etc. (via ALT meetings, Ops LT meetings, etc.)
- Draft financial memorandums as needed to support project progression
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