ExxonMobil

Commercial Manager - Midstream Business Development

ExxonMobil$150K — $180K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10 years of midstream commercial experience in oil and gas or petrochemicals.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, or related field.
  • Excellent collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong business, financial, and economic analysis capabilities.
  • Ability to thrive in a performance-driven, team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

  • Identify new business opportunities supporting ExxonMobil's portfolio volumes and midstream assets.
  • Develop midstream commercial strategies for asset growth and value maximization.
  • Evaluate market trends and customer requirements for commercial decision-making.
  • Monitor industry activity for insights on business opportunities and risks.
  • Collaborate across the value chain to enhance portfolio value.
  • Develop and negotiate commercial agreements aligned with ExxonMobil objectives.
  • Manage a portfolio of commercial relationships and agreements.

Benefits

  • Automatic pension plan enrollment at no cost, ensuring a lifetime retirement annuity.
  • Savings plan with a 7% match if at least 6% is contributed.
  • Programs promoting workplace flexibility, including ad-hoc schedules.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Resources supporting employee health and wellbeing.
  • Automatic enrollment in a disability plan providing income replacement.
Full Job Description
About Houston

ExxonMobil's state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.

By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company's ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.

The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.

The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world's top academic, research, and corporate facilities.

Learn more about what we do in Houstonhere

What role you will play in our team

As a Commercial Manager in ExxonMobil's Midstream Business Development organization, you will be responsible for identifying, developing, and executing commercial opportunities that enhance portfolio value, create market optionality, and support strategic growth objectives across a diverse asset footprint. This role requires developing and maintaining relationships with producers, marketers, refiners, petrochemical companies, midstream service providers, and other industry participants while leading the origination, structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial transactions.

The successful candidate will leverage North American midstream market knowledge, commercial expertise, and relationship management skills to originate opportunities, optimize asset utilization, and support growth across crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), refined products, petrochemicals, and related midstream value chains. This position will support a defined commodity-specific portfolio within ExxonMobil's Midstream Business Development organization, based in Spring, Texas, and will require periodic travel.

What you will do

Business Development

  • Identify new business opportunities that leverage and support ExxonMobil's portfolio volumes and midstream assets.
  • Support asset growth by developing midstream commercial strategies and identifying market access and value-maximization opportunities.
  • Evaluate market trends, competitive dynamics, and customer requirements to inform commercial decision-making.
  • Monitor industry activity and provide insights on opportunities and risks impacting the business.
  • Collaborate across ExxonMobil's value chain to identify and evaluate opportunities that enhance portfolio value.


Commercial Development & Contract Management

  • Develop, negotiate, and execute commercial agreements consistent with ExxonMobil strategies and objectives.
  • Lead negotiations with counterparties to create value-enhancing opportunities across gathering, processing, transportation, storage, terminaling, fractionation, and energy commodity logistics services.
  • Manage a portfolio of commercial relationships and agreements while ensuring alignment with business objectives.


Relationship Management

  • Develop and maintain strategic relationships with customers, suppliers, market participants, and other industry stakeholders while representing ExxonMobil in the marketplace.
  • Create and maintain a strong network of industry contacts to support opportunity generation and market intelligence.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, engineering, finance, planning, legal, and commercial organizations to execute business objectives.


About you

  • Minimum 10 years of midstream commercial, business development, marketing, trading, or related experience in the oil and gas or petrochemicals industries, along with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, or a related discipline.
  • Applicants must have excellent collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills and the ability to deliver results in a performance-driven and team-oriented environment.
  • Strong business, financial, and economic analysis capabilities.


Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

  • Significant experience in one or more midstream commodity sectors, including crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), refined products, petrochemicals, or related energy markets.
  • Proven expertise in pipeline gathering, transportation, processing, storage, terminaling, fractionation, or energy commodity logistics services.
  • Strong commercial negotiation and contract development experience.
  • Established industry relationships with producers, marketers, refiners, petrochemical companies, midstream service providers, or other market participants.
  • Strong critical thinking, commercial judgment, and strategic decision-making capabilities.
  • Ability to manage multiple complex opportunities simultaneously and prioritize effectively.
  • Demonstrated success originating and executing value-creating commercial transactions within the oil and gas midstream sector.
  • Strong presentation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Adaptability and the ability to perform effectively in a changing business environment.
  • High commitment to identifying, developing, and capturing new market opportunities.
  • Detail-oriented and capable of producing results in time-constrained situations.


Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:
  • Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
  • Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
  • Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as "Flex your Day", providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
  • Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
  • Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.


More information on our Company's benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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About ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil is an international oil and gas company, providing energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. It uses innovation and technology to deliver energy to a growing world. The company explores for, produces, and sells crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products.

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Size
63,000 employees
Market Cap
$442 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$22.4 billion
Founded
1870
5 Year Trend
+6.6%
Revenue
$178.5 billion
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