Our client, a Global Leader in the Petrochemical industry is seeking to URGENTLY appoint a dynamic Commercial Manager to join their Cape Town, Western Cape Refinery team.MAIN PURPOSE FOR THE ROLE:To occupy a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. To lead a cross-functional team of 12 consummate professionals, providing guidance and support to ensure the team's success in achieving their goals. To demonstrate strong leadership skills, backed by your ability to drive results and collaborate cross-functionally, to drive Team success in this role. To oversee various commercial processes such as optimisation, strategic planning, business improvement plans, product planning and scheduling, and driving strategic integration of the Cape Town based operation with major international shareholders.KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:At minimum a BSc Chemical EngineeringA Commercial qualification such as an MBA or MBL will prove an added advantage.At least 10+ years experience in the oil & gas industry (specifically petrochemical)International experience will also be a distinct advantage.KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:Managing the transition from a Hierarchical structure led to Flat structure, "Centre-led" to a lateral "BU and SBU Independent model" with all the relevant aspects, including technology, standards, and management systems.Managing the strategic planning process, ensuring all environmental considerations and refinery strengths and weaknesses are comprehended and modelled via a Linear Program (LP), and presenting information appropriately to management and staff.Managing the refinery's production planning and scheduling process, including short, medium, and long-term planning stages.Managing the refinery Governance Model using the Management System Process (MSP) monthly, including tracking progress against plan, preparing a variance analysis of monthly refinery earnings, and collating and reporting various refinery KPIs.Managing the annual refinery business planning process, developing, and delivering key deliverables on time, producing the refinery's annualized scorecard, and tracking performance against that scorecard.Managing all refinery blending and scheduling activities, as well as refinery accounting activities.Managing adherence to Management of Change (MOC) processes when new crudes are to be processed and/or the crude diet to the refinery is to be changed.Maintaining a field presence.Leading the development and tracking of the refinery's Business Improvement Plan to maximize competitive potential and optimize costs.Leading all development work and studies to identify optimal pathways for future capital investment plans that impact refinery sustainability.... (remaining content truncated for brevity)#J-18808-Ljbffr