Senior International Commercial Development Representative

Continental Resources•Oklahoma City, OK

About The Position

The International Commercial Development Representative is a commercially minded professional responsible for developing markets and originating commercial opportunities for the company’s crude oil production. The role identifies and builds relationships with international buyers, refiners, traders, and infrastructure providers; evaluates new markets and routes to market; and structures and negotiates commercial arrangements that improve netbacks, manage risk, and support reliable offtake. The position combines market analysis, business development, and physical crude oil marketing. It works closely with trading, logistics, operations, analytics, legal, credit, risk, and regional business units to turn market opportunities into executable agreements and create value across the crude oil supply chain.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
Minimum of eight years of related experience in energy marketing, business development, trading support, commercial analytics, or a related oil and gas function.
Ability to assess commercial opportunities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment across functions, offices, and time zones.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, and relationship-building skills.
An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.

Nice To Haves

Experience marketing crude oil, originating physical commodity transactions, or negotiating commercial agreements.
Experience developing customer relationships or markets in an international energy setting.
Experience with international crude markets, marine operations, export markets, refinery customers, or global commodity trading.
Familiarity with crude quality, pricing differentials, freight economics, delivery terms, and infrastructure access.
Experience evaluating commercial partnerships, new routes to market, infrastructure agreements, or commercial asset optimization.
Exposure to commercial development programs involving market analysis and cross-functional learning.

Responsibilities

Markets and places equity crude oil volumes domestically and internationally to achieve the highest practical netbacks within established risk parameters.
Identifies, evaluates, and develops international markets, customers, and outlets for company crude oil production.
Originates commercial opportunities by building relationships with refiners, traders, midstream and marine providers, port operators, and other potential counterparties.
Develops, negotiates, and executes term and spot sales agreements, tenders, offtake arrangements, and other commercial agreements in coordination with legal, credit, and risk functions.
Evaluates new routes to market, export options, infrastructure access, and commercial partnerships to expand market access and improve realized value.
Analyzes global crude differentials, arbitrage opportunities, freight economics, refinery demand, crude quality specifications, and market conditions to identify opportunities and inform pricing strategies and deal structures.
Develops market-entry and customer strategies, including assessments of counterparties, pricing structures, delivery terms, and commercial risks.
Partners with regional business units and operations teams to understand production plans, quality, and field constraints and to develop market solutions that support reliable offtake, reduce curtailments and flaring, and resolve operational-commercial issues.
Works with trading, logistics, and operations teams to assess the commercial feasibility of proposed deals and support delivery after agreements are executed.
Participates in commercial asset optimization and infrastructure evaluations where they support market access, customer development, or improved value across the crude oil supply chain.
Monitors customer, competitor, infrastructure, and regulatory developments that may create or affect market opportunities.
Maintains awareness of applicable commercial, contractual, regulatory, safety, and ethical requirements and conducts business accordingly.
Performs other duties as assigned.