Sales Support Specialist

Motiva Enterprises LLC•Houston, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At Motiva, our employees’ energy, passion, and dedication to excellence are what make us who we are and what allows us to generate energy that makes a house a home, gets us from point A to point B, and enables our health and wellbeing. We invest in every aspect of our employees’ lives because, at Motiva, our people matter. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Motiva refines, distributes and markets petroleum products throughout the Americas. The company’s Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, TX, is comprised of North America’s largest refinery with a total throughput of 720,000 barrels per day, the largest base oil plant in the western hemisphere, and an integrated chemical plant. Under exclusive long-term brand licenses with Shell and Phillips 66 (for the 76® brand), Motiva’s commercial operations supply more than 12 billion gallons of fuel to customers annually. Motiva is wholly owned by Aramco, one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies. Position Overview: The Sales Support Specialist will perform a variety of operational functions to support the setup and maintenance of customer accounts in Motiva’s systems. This role will be responsible for ensuring that customer requests, inquiries and set ups are completed accurately and timely while maintaining a primary focus on Operational Excellence. The Sales Support team also troubleshoots a variety of issues and works collaboratively with internal stakeholders to resolve disputes. There is a heavy emphasis on understanding multiple processes, systems and their innerworkings within Motiva’s end to end supply chain with an expectation for continuous improvement. This is a developmental role for a person interested in understanding the complexity of maintaining customer accounts, Motiva’s Marketing & Sales landscape, and troubleshooting in Motiva’s everyday operations. The expectation is that the successful candidate will learn Motiva’s Marketing & Sales business and become a focal point for all inquiries related to customer accounts and Sales Support processes. This role will allow the successful candidate to have a solid foundation to contribute to Motiva in the future.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required. Relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of the education requirement on a year-for-year basis.
Minimum two (2) years or more experience in business/marketing/information technology/or related field
Candidate will be highly organized and able to work on multiple projects simultaneously, both in a team and individual atmosphere
Position requires strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with external stakeholders
Candidate should be comfortable working on complex issues in a team environment to achieve a resolution
Candidate should be proficient in Microsoft suite of tools
Demonstrates exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Ability to collaborate to complete tasks and across various teams
Ability to build rapport with internal and external stakeholders across various teams
Multi-tasking and managing varying priorities
High level of organizational skills required
Ability to work in our Downtown Houston office Monday-Thursday.

Nice To Haves

Marketing/Business/Finance/Information Technology degree
Oil and gas experience desired, preferably in the Contracts or Supply Chain space

Responsibilities

Create and amend customer accounts using SAP, RightAngle, Salesforce and Pega to facilitate the end to end completion of setups for 3rd party terminals.
Champion Sales Operational Excellence while ensuring policy, process, and authority compliance
Consistently demonstrate a customer focus in all tasks by actively working to understand how we can best support our customers and their business needs
Maintain adherence to prescribed controls by ensuring accurate and up-to-date completion of work
Ability to effectively engage internal and external stakeholders to facilitate setups and troubleshoot customer setup issues
Provide second level trouble shooting support for setups to ensure timely resolution and successful customer loading
Capacity to work in a dynamic environment, interacting with internal and external staff, and customers.
Position needs to have capability to understand multiple processes and systems and how they are integrated
Demonstrate leadership attributes and support of continuous improvement of processes through knowledge sharing with cross functional teams
Multi-tasking and managing varying priorities
High level of organizational skills required
Special Projects as necessary