Job description Wolverine is seeking a Commercial Manager to set up and execute all oversight and reporting processes for Wolverine Terminals. This individual is expected to play a pivotal role in the Company’s success and growth. Reporting to the Vice President, Marketing, the primary responsibility of the Commercial Manager is to provide strong commercial leadership to the Wolverine operations organization. This individual will implement and optimize the commercial success through the planning, and coordinating of operational activities as well as working with third parties to establish operational agreements and steward to them. The Commercial Manager will work closely with the Terminal Manager in Louisiana to ensure that Wolverine grows into the first full service midstream company providing delivery of Canadian crude to tidewater in the Southern United States. This individual will be charged with creating the commercial framework for this new venture, providing continuity of ideas, understanding of risk and the ability to effectively execute at the highest level for the Company. Primary duties and responsibilities of the Commercial Manager include: •Fostering a corporate culture that promotes an unwavering commitment to safety, technical and commercial excellence, team work and people development, ethical practices and individual integrity, sustainability, calculated risk-taking and creativity; •Assist in developing the annual business plans, and monitoring and reporting progress against the business plan; •Managing internal and external business relationships and related agreements to ensure strategic and business plans are effectively implemented and financial and operational objectives set by senior management are attained; •Assisting with the creation and execution of the Wolverine capital and operational expenditure programs; •Troubleshooting operational issues as required to ensure all customer commercial requirements are met; •Managing logistics associated with the rail car fleet and truck fleet, CN, customers and stakeholders to ensure efficient processing of the crude oil loading; •Coordinating with the Vice President, Marketing in identifying the principal operational risks of the business and ensuring implementation of appropriate systems to manage these risks; •Support the Vice President, Marketing in negotiation and implementation of commercial agreements; •Participating as a key member of the Wolverine management team in the development and implementation of the company’s ongoing growth strategy; •Ensuring a strong commitment to safety, high technical standards, and delivering key results through its people is maintained across the operations divisions; •Developing and recruiting the key team members as the business and its complexity grows. •Fostering a corporate culture that promotes entrepreneurialism, transparency, and commercial performance – even in day to day operations. Desired Skills and Experience •The ideal candidate will have significant commercial management experience in a relevant industry to Wolverine Terminals which could include midstream / marketing operations, commodity terminaling and transportation, rail terminals, trucking and/or logistics. •Must have a proven track record of creating value and managing growth in companies that are known to be strong operators. •A self-starter, ambitious and motivated to grow the business with a “roll-up the sleeves” attitude. •Deep and demonstrable track record of success in adding value and innovation through analytical rigor and insight from an operational perspective. •Direct experience implementing and managing commercial operations, risk management, and related management reporting processes. •Experience dealing with commercial agreements and contracts. •Ideally, this successful candidate will be upwardly mobile with the potential to assume broader responsibilities over time with demonstrated success in the Commercial Manager role and growth of Wolverine’s business. •Ability to adapt to the ever changing business requirements of an entrepreneurial environment. Must be a critical-thinker with an action-oriented leadership style. About this companyGrizzly Oil Sands ULC Grizzly is a growing oil sands development company led by a senior team with decades of thermal heavy oil experience. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Grizzly is emphasizing operational excellence and capital efficiency through modular facility design, and will aim to maximize bitumen netbacks through oil-by-rail marketing. With first production at our Algar Lake project anticipated by year-end 2013, and projects at May River and Thickwood in planning, Grizzly has moved past the start-up phase – we are an oil sands operator. Wolverine Terminals A key component of Grizzly’s commercial business strategy is the development of infrastructure to support bitumen marketing by rail. Grizzly is actively constructing facilities at Conklin to receive trucked in crude from its Algar Lake project and load the crude onto rail cars. The Conklin terminal will have an initial capacity to handle up to 18,000 BBL/D of Grizzly or third party crude. Grizzly has leased 350 rail cars and has negotiated a ten year rail rate with CN to deliver the crude to the US Gulf Coast. Grizzly is constructing a crude oil rail to barge terminal and blending operation on a 15-acre Mississippi River site in St. James Parish, Louisiana. The Paulina terminal will service the U.S. Gulf Coast heavy oil refinery market. The project will entail rail and dock facility improvements along with storage tank construction that will enable the company to receive crude oil shipments by rail from Canadian and U.S. locations and to ship blended oil products via barge to domestic customers. Construction will begin in the third quarter of 2013 and be completed by the end of the second quarter in 2014. The Paulina terminal will have an initial capacity to handle up to 60,000 BBL/D of Grizzly or third party crude. Both rail facilities will also be operated as open terminals with regard to third parties.
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