Business Development Manager - Oil and Gas at BASF The Chemical Company

What You Can Expect

The successful candidate will be responsible for active BASF Oil & Gas Business development in West Africa, to lead development initiatives and integrate and align with various BASF business units having touch points with the Oil & Gas value chain.

Duties will include the following:

• To provide strategy and analysis for entry into new markets
• To further market share and growth in existing markets, in close collaboration with the business units.
• Investigating business opportunities with significant scale and synergies to drive growth and leverage current portfolio of products in target markets and applications.
• Developing and commercializing existing and new platform opportunities to support market growth.
• Generate market intelligence for relevant industry segments in alignment with the BASF Africa strategy.
• Accumulating industry knowledge, insights and contacts.
• Identify and establish relationship with key direct stakeholders and upstream/downstream industry players, experts , consultants and regulatory bodies.
• Maintain subject matter expertise in selected areas, staying abreast of developments and best prac-tices internally and externally
• Lead project teams to meet business objectives.
• Interacting and cooperating with relevant internal interfaces, service units and external parties.
• Being an operational arm for market development team to enable localization pilots.

What We Expect

•  A relevant University qualification in a Technical or Scientific field (Oil refining & Petrochemical pre-ferred).
• A Post Graduate qualification in Business Management would be a distinct advantage
• Minimum of 5 years experience working in development and utilization within Oil & Gas industry.
• Ability to demonstrate high flexibility in complex market environments
• High levels of business savviness and ability to think independently
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Effective teambuilding skills.

We Offer

• Responsibility from day one in a challenging work environment and on-the-job training as part of a com-mitted team.
• Competitive compensation including attractive benefits as well as excellent career opportuni-ties in an international company.