Trading Operator

**The Role**:
We are looking for a motivated and passionate Trading Operator with combined skills and experience in operations, conflict management and has commercial agility.

**What’s the role?**
- Ops are the key executors of the’ life of the deal’, managing movements on bulk crude or product tankers from supply to delivery point in an operationally excellent and optimal manner, preventing profit leakage and looking for value add opportunities.
- Some Ops roles will be more involved with running Time charter vessels, operating Shell-leased terminals and or possibly involved in some blending activities. In these instances, Ops are expected to defend the P&L and look out for opportunities to maximize margins through effective asset utilization, preventing unnecessary downtime/demurrage or improving blend margins.
- Ensure that all obligations arising from the contract and charter party are executed flawlessly, in compliance with governmental and industrial regulations as well as HSSE guidelines.
- Daily external interface with contractual counterparties, terminal operators, vessel owners/brokers, national companies and competitors.
- Daily internal interface with traders, charterers, shipping, manufacturing (E&S, movements), Product Optimizers, deal makers, claims, contracts, demurrage and legal.
- Expected to manage supply and delivery schedules with internal and external counterparties. Ops will need to appreciate the challenges and constraints of the end-to-end supply chain, and operationalize a plan to meet those objectives, while remaining profitable and compliant.
- Timely and accurate ship, cargo and date range nominations to ensure supply integrity and successful implementation of commercial business/supply intent.
- Manage vessel operations, such as scheduling, routing, bunkering, stow planning & optimization, issuing voyage orders and monitoring fleet of vessels under your charge.
- Manage cargo operations, such as managing off-spec issues, cargo readiness, scheduling, blending (where applicable for more senior or specialized ops roles), avoiding tank-top/stock-out situations and volume/date-range optimization.
- Support post-deal activities like customs clearance, demurrage and claims for example; ensuring that all necessary operational information is passed on in good time and documentary requirements are met.
- Appoint independent inspectors, expeditors, ship-to-ship service providers and ships agents.
- Ensure that all operational data is updated into trading systems in timely and accurate manner, facilitating up-to-date and accurate information flow.
- Ensure that adequate records are kept to meet the company’s legal and fiscal obligations.
- Ensure that any necessary financial security is in place prior to transfer of title to customers.
- Be available to manage critical out of regular office hour issues.
- Proactively liaise with charterers to ensure smooth operations, avoid supply disruption and minimize demurrage costs.

**What we need from you**
- Display relevant knowledge and or experience (2 - 3 years) in Trading & Supply-related operations. It will be advantageous to have some prior working experience in a Trading and Supply (or similar) operations-type environment.
- Display some evidence of commerciality and ability to maximize margins or adding-value to the bottom line. For example: ability to participate in or positively contribute to end-to-end supply strategy plans as well as ability to identify potential blockers to successful operational execution.
- Ability to contribute to successful implementation of an operations plan, identifying and managing supply/operational constraints independently.
- Display some understanding of and ability to articulate the demands and nature of the T&S business.
- Evidence of being able to manage multiple and conflicting priorities to achieve business intent and objectives with mínimal supervision.
- Evidence of ability to problem solve in uncertain circumstances or working with incomplete information.
- Evidence of ability to function well in a fast-paced dynamic environment where changes are the norm.
- Demonstrate a passion for operations excellence and evidence of participating in optimization initiatives or activities.

**Company Description**

Shell is one the largest foreign investors in Singapore and began operations in 1891. Today, we have more than 3,200 employees in Singapore alone. The Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site today is the largest Shell refinery in the world in terms of crude distillation capacity, which makes Singapore a key regional supply and trading centre for Shell in the East. Singapore is the largest petrochemical production and export centre in the Asia Pacific region. Shell Jurong Island (SJI) manufactures petrochemicals to meet the fast-growing demand for these products in the region. We also have one of the largest single-branded retail networks in Singapore, providing customers with a wide range of quality