Senior Business Development Advisor

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Position Summary

The individual will be r esponsible for building and maintaining effective long-term relationships with regulators, business partners, logistics service providers, and customers in the West Division including Latin America and has a deep understanding of fuel supply and marketing related business, financials, and overall refined products energy markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations for the acquisition of other companies' transportation or manufacturing assets; oversees and coordinates preparation of economic analysis and studies to determine feasibility.

• Uses scenario planning techniques to predict changes in external influences such as marketplace, customer needs, government policy, technology, and competitor actions when making acquisitions, upgrades, joint interest, and strategy recommendations.

• Evaluates a wide range of business development opportunities across organizational lines; pursues opportunities with other companies and conducts negotiations as required.

• Maintains a thorough knowledge of business issues, constraints, applicable regulations, and MPC industry positioning. Stays abreast and informed of Refining, SD&P, T&L, and Marketing issues. Responsible for tying together these organizational initiatives into a cohesive format with an overall company perspective.

• Understands political effects on the energy sector as well as appropriately represents Company in government and business matters, keeping abreast of Federal and State legislative, regulatory, environmental, cultural, social, financial, economic, political and business sector's information.

• Observes and reports on competitive activities, new investments, promotions, and pricing.

• Contributes to the Clean Products Value Chain commercial strategy development and implementation, with a focus on making the link between the MPC US refining centers and respective product markets including international.

• Timely manages deal and contract negotiations from initiation to execution.

• Effectively coordinate across trading, structuring, legal, market and credit risk functions to price and execute structured transactions.

• Studies, analyzes, and reports on local economic and business environment, as well as market/competitor trends to proactively identify business threats and opportunities.

• Serves as subject matter expert concerning market flows and the physical and operational characteristics of the logistics supply systems.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, marketing, or related field required; MBA preferred.

• Minimum 10 or more years of experience working in energy markets required, downstream energy experience preferred.

• Minimum 5 years of experience negotiating contracts, including proven record of managing multi-year commodities contracts required.

• Fluency in Spanish (both spoken & written) required.

• Ability to travel within the United States as well as other countries, up to 25%.

Skills

• Ability to effectively communicate with key stakeholders, including executives.

• Ability to work across functional lines and within natural work teams.

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Location

San Antonio, Texas

Additional locations

Job Requisition ID

00011833

Location Address

19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

Education

Bachelors (Required)

Employee Group

Full time

Employee Subgroup

Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here (~~~) . If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at ~~~ . Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at ~~~ .The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program. Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

About Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.