Business Developer

Main Purpose:   Responsibilities include developing relationships and identifying opportunities to grow Trafigura’s participation and value creation in the North American energy markets. The role encompasses research, opportunity identification, development, and business case development and analysis for specific projects, as well as collaboration across organizational groups. The role executes business implementation plans in coordination with commercial leads and regional trading personnel and reports to the regional Business Development leads for North America. The role also develops operational and economic models to identify and evaluate market opportunities. The scope of the role covers North America and all energy commodities in which Trafigura has, or could establish, value-creating interests. Domestic travel required 10% of the time.

Minimum Required Education: Bachelor degree or foreign equivalent in Business, Economics or Finance or a related field.

Minimum Required Experience: Five (5) years of experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience in natural resources investment banking or natural resources business development, performing each of the following duties: Leading and coordinating assessments of market and industry conditions, competitor activity, and commercial and technical opportunities focused on the North American market; Developing and maintaining operational and economic models to analyze and evaluate market and investment opportunities in the natural resources industry; Managing projects to evaluate new business opportunities and working with relevant stakeholders to execute delivery plans; Identifying, developing, and maintaining key relationships with external counterparties across the natural resources value chain; and Sourcing and maintaining a pipeline of potential project opportunities and providing regular updates to local and global management.

Key Relationships and Department Overview: Manager, Business Development, Oil