ExxonMobil

Development Planning Advisor

ExxonMobil • $120K — $145K *
Spring, TX 77379In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. or higher in Engineering; MBA preferred
  • Technical, business, and team leadership experience
  • Experience in Leadership Decision Framing and Support
  • Capability in risk and uncertainty identification
  • Excellent communication skills for strategic trade-offs
  • Broad oil and gas industry experience across multiple areas
  • Strong business acumen in value creation and capture

Responsibilities

  • Lead analysis of technical, commercial, and market data to support development decisions
  • Evaluate development opportunities using fiscal systems and economic drivers
  • Develop and communicate economic models for project assessments
  • Integrate multiple perspectives to mature development concepts
  • Identify value-enhancing opportunities and engage experts
  • Collaborate with teams across subsurface, engineering, and finance
  • Support annual business planning and reserves reporting

Benefits

  • Automatic enrollment in a pension plan at no cost
  • Savings plan with company matching contributions
  • Workplace flexibility programs
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Resources for employee wellbeing and health
  • Confidential counseling program for employees and families
  • Automatic enrollment in a disability income replacement plan
Full Job Description
What role you will play on our team

Development Planners lead the early evaluation and maturation of business and project opportunities, developing technical, execution, and economic foundations that support investment decisions. Working in environments of high technical and commercial uncertainty, they coordinate cross-functional teams to assess a broad range of concepts, support opportunity screening and concept selection, and apply analytical tools and profitability assessments to develop clear business recommendations that drive decision-making. The ideal candidate combines technical and commercial understanding, thinks strategically about business value, and is comfortable navigating complex decisions involving multiple stakeholders. They are able to assess opportunities, communicate recommendations effectively, and influence decisions that support asset and portfolio growth.

This role is located in Spring, TX.

What you will do

  • Lead the acquisition and analysis of technical, commercial, and market data required to reduce uncertainty and build business cases that support development decisions at each project stage.
  • Apply knowledge of fiscal systems, commercial frameworks, and economic drivers to evaluate development opportunities and support value-based decision making.
  • Develop, maintain, and utilize economic models to assess opportunities, projects, and funding decisions. Clearly communicate economic results, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Integrate technical, commercial, and execution perspectives to screen, evaluate, and mature development concepts in environments with significant uncertainty.
  • Identify value-enhancing opportunities, technologies, and development strategies, engaging subject matter experts as needed to maximize project and portfolio value.
  • Collaborate across subsurface, engineering, commercial, finance, and operations teams to advance opportunities through key development milestones.
  • Support annual business planning, portfolio management activities, and reserves reporting, including preparation of Plan & Budget (P&B) inputs.


About you

Skills and Qualifications
  • B.S. or higher in Engineering discipline, MBA preferred
  • Broad thinker and not necessarily process-driven
  • Technical, business, and multifunctional team leadership experience
  • Experience in Leadership Decision Framing and Support is essential, e.g. experience working with decision makers to create clarity around strategic objectives, value definitions, decision road maps, and decision risk timelines
  • Experience and comfort in leading teams through opportunity evaluations with significant uncertainty is essential
  • Capability in risk and uncertainty identification and quantification including likelihood
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to demonstrate to management strategic tradeoffs that show value, exposure, and lost opportunity in the lens of multiple scenarios
  • Broad oil and gas industry experience spanning one or more of the following areas: engineering, subsurface, operations, commercial, or asset development
  • Strong business acumen with a solid understanding of how value is created and captured within the oil and gas industry
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and business issues into clear, actionable insights
  • Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including examples of influencing outcomes, driving initiatives, or leading teams and projects, regardless of formal leadership title


Preferred Qualifications / Experience
  • 7-10+ years of relevant experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams to bring together technical and business knowledge to support large-scale project decisions
  • High level of personal and professional integrity
  • Strong demonstrated business acumen, ability to lead strategic assessments and scenario-based analysis for comparing alternatives, with emphasis on profitability analysis
  • Demonstrated teamwork and leadership skills; able to lead others in a diverse work team
  • Strong strategic thinking, leadership, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills; ability to clearly and concisely advocate a course of action to decision makers
  • Experience framing and evaluating business opportunities, including economic analysis, value optimization, risk assessment, trade-off analysis, and investment decision-making
  • Knowledge of and experience supporting early-stage project development, including opportunity maturation, concept evaluation, and development planning activities
  • Willing and able to travel (domestic and international) as required


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.

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.

ExxonMobil Careers

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Learn more about ExxonMobil
Size
63,000 employees
Market Cap
$442 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
-$22.4 billion
Founded
1870
5 Year Trend
+6.6%
Revenue
$178.5 billion
NASDAQ
XOM
* Ladders Estimates

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