Commercial Scheduler

**Position Purpose**

About the Opportunity:
Shell is seeking a **Commercial Scheduler** to join us at our new location at the Bow Tower. Shell Trading offers you the unique opportunity to join its crude operation team and be a part of its global trading network. This job offers a challenging opportunity to work with traders with the goal of maximizing profitability.

The position is one of 5 positions within Commercial Operations team. The team is responsible for managing the logistics (marine, pipeline, lease, transload and rail) of all crude and condensate movements throughout Canada. The team of schedulers works within the trading team to execute and optimize trades through their commercial acumen and expertise in crude oil trading operations.

Beyond these key deliverables, the Commercial Operator is expected to “own the molecule” and understand the operations and commercial implications. The Commercial Operator plays a critical role in the Crude Trading organization and is expected to generate commercial value, manage losses, prevent profit leakage, and analyze / report on all aspects of crude movements within our remit.

Accountabilities:

- Manage crude scheduling to pipelines, terminals, leases and third parties and ensure alignment of supply and production commitments
- Proactively support traders and develop a detailed and extensive understanding of supply and logistics to provide commercial feedback and value add
- Provide solutions and ideas to maximize/improve profit on existing deals and/or explore hidden value/options
- Liaise with Shell Entities, Third Party counterparties and team members to resolve and eliminate issues impacting schedules, supply and settlements
- Effectively communicate trading needs to traders/schedulers and other team members
- Ensure that day-to-day orders and schedules are prepared accurately and timely
- Manage tanks and inventories
- Perform the daily task of quantifying and analyzing discrepancies between the plan, schedules and actual performance. Analyze and communicate results to the responsible parties to take necessary corrective actions. Escalate issues when need be
- Support the month end process for reporting production volumes and inventories in systems and for group to reconcile gaps
- Provide backup coverage for other scheduling desks
- Interface with Traders, Schedulers, Contract Management Team and Ops Support Analysts to resolve Customers / Vendors issues in a timely fashion
- Comply with various government reporting requirements
- Support Continuous Improvement throughout the organization
- Contribute to maximizing commercial value

**Requirements**:

- Must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience within a crude scheduling role
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Supply Chain or Engineering
- Required experience with mainline, feeder and/or lease scheduling
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail are a necessity
- Tues/Wed/Thus - min 3 days in office with flexibility to work remotely Mon/Fri

**Company description**

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in among other exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of oil products, chemicals, electric power, renewables and energy solutions.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future - whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest mi