VP, Intermediates & Specialty Products

CVR Energy, Inc. • Sugar Land, TX

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About The Position

The VP, Intermediates & Specialty Products is responsible for maximizing value across the company’s non-fuels product streams, including light ends, NGLs, intermediates, sulfur, petroleum coke, and other specialty products. This role serves as the commercial owner of non-fuels product streams, working in close partnership with the company’s Refining & Commercial Optimization team (LP, planning, and analytics) to ensure operational decisions and supply plans capture maximum margin from specialized streams.

Requirements

• Commercial leader with expertise in intermediates, NGLs, petcoke, sulfur or specialties markets, supply, and optimization-informed decision making
• Solid understanding of regulatory and financial levers impacting margin
• Enterprise mindset: integrates market strategy, operations, and financial/compliance levers
• Commercial acumen: understands how to convert system capabilities into economic value
• Risk-aware decision maker: balances margin optimization with compliance and hedging discipline
• Collaborative leadership: effective in a matrixed environment with planning and optimization teams
• Strategic + executional: able to set direction and drive outcomes
• Eligible to work in the United States
• The Company will not sponsor immigration or work visas.

Responsibilities

• Develop commercial strategies
• Optimize netbacks/margin
• Work closely with the Commercial team responsible for refinery and supply chain optimization (LP models, monthly and daily plans)
• Provide market-based inputs and commercial priorities to guide optimization outputs
• Evaluate LP-driven plans and scenarios to ensure alignment with market strategy and value capture
• Collaborate on trade-offs between operational efficiency and market-driven margin optimization
• Lead supply strategy, including logistics, inventory positioning, and distribution
• Ensure alignment between refinery output and market demand
• Drive execution across product movements, blending strategy, and system balancing
• Manage customer relationships
• Structure contracts
• Set commercial priorities that guide system optimization and planning decisions
• Translate market intelligence into actionable direction for planning and optimization teams
• Identify and capture incremental margin opportunities across product slate, geography, and channels
• Manage any hedging strategies for select non-fuels products
• Define risk limits with middle office as needed.
• Serve as the primary commercial interface with refining operations, planning, and optimization teams for non-fuels products
• Lead and develop a high-performing team across supply, compliance, and market analytics
• Drive a performance culture centered on margin delivery and accountability
• Shape long-term strategy for intermediates and specialty products, channels, and commercial positioning
• Identify new market opportunities, partnerships, and optimization levers in coordination with VP Business Development & Optimization in the Commercial organization
• Support enterprise-level decisions with market insights and margin analysis

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed