Commercial Manager

Leads the commercial team in developing and implementing strategies for the economic optimization of product trade and delivery services.

• Develops and implements local and regional supply and trading strategies that maximize profitability while optimizing product imports/sales, ensuring cost effective and customer focused product dispatch and promoting continuous improvement of the scheduling and logistics process.
• Drives the monitoring and analysis of the business unit’s performance (operational vs forecasted variance) to recommend corrective actions and optimization opportunities.
• Directs the development of long-term (1-5 years) and short-term (up to 12 months) forecasting and operational support, including project justification, marketing business plans and budgeting activities.
• Manages the trading risk within the delegated financial authorities.
• Advises on commercial and operational risk components of spot and term deals
• Drives management of customer/supplier contracts, relationships and new business development and ensures a strong external market focus through effective stakeholder and industry interactions.
• Develops the Organizational Capability to grow and sustain business objectives including the development of commercial analytical capabilities for the Trading and Commercial team.
• Ensures compliance to the annual audit plan, participates, reviews and implements recommendations from internal audit and investigations conducted to ensure adherence to appropriate internal controls.
• Provides strong representation for the company with external stakeholders including Ministerial, Regulatory and Standards boards and agencies.
• Ensures compliance to all relevant statutory and legislative requirements inclusive of Customs and Excise Regulations
• Ensures all activities are conducted and managed in accordance with Paria’s policies and procedures, Health, Safety and Environmental practices and procedures as outlined in the business unit’s HSE management system.
• Undertakes any other assignments required from time to time, to fulfil the job purpose.