Account Representative

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We value all of our employees who make our growth and success possible. We are proud to offer industry leading compensation, comprehensive benefits, 401(k) match with additional profit sharing, PTO and abundant career opportunities.

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Summary:

This position will be responsible for direct midstream commercial interaction with key producer/customers and analyzing long-term contracts in support of new and existing infrastructure. It will also involve financial and contractual deal structuring and acquisition opportunity identification, evaluation, and pursuit.

The position will also involve a good deal of personal initiative, interpersonal and negotiating skills, travel and after-hour customer meetings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The essential job duties for this position are listed below:

- General interaction and support of customers, marketing efforts, etc. with a specific focus on learning the assets and helping to implement customer focused projects and supporting the resolution of customer focused operational issues.

- Work closely with the crude Commercial team to assure the highest level of service to our customers and assist in the development of new growth projects for the crude business. This involves research of market/industry/customer reports and developing meaningful analysis to advance the opportunity.

- Establish and maintain close working relationships with all current customers with contracts on our Texas crude system.

- Assist with the management of all contracts and have a strong understanding of the existing contracts that are key in our business.

- Ability to provide optimization/utilization reports as needed and be able to interpret data in a meaningful way.

- Assist with the preparation of annual budgets.

- Work closely with Accounting, Operations, Engineering, and Commercial functions to address cross-departmental issues. In addition, effective communication and coordination with all departments within the company are essential in the role.

- Instrumental in the implementation of new capital expansion projects, to include communication with Operations and Engineering.

- Working with scheduling and LTO on DRA/power efficiency and application

- Financial analysis of large maintenance projects, integrity repairs, etc..

- Support of evaluation/justification for potential new pipeline projects

- Manage primary customer relationships through both normal operations and abnormal events.

- Ensure contracts across all assets are properly documented and communicated to the operations, accounting, and measurement organizations.

Requirements:

Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering or related field

- Minimum of 2-4 years of related experience

- Superior working knowledge of Microsoft related products such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.

- Ability to develop strong relationships, both internal and external.

- Effective time management, organizational, and leadership skills.

- The candidate should have a good understanding of economics, business fundamentals, and corporate business profitability as well as excellent interpersonal skills required as this position may interact with all levels of the organization.

- Strong written and verbal skills in order to write reports and develop visual models and diagrams for senior management and the corporate organization on a routine basis.

- Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

- Excellent communication skills, self-motivated, self-starter, sense of urgency, personable, extroverted personality, well organized.

- Ability to communicate and resolve issues in a professional and tactful manner.

- Ability to handle problems and facilitate successful outcomes.

- Solid understanding of pipeline assets.

- Capacity utilization and pricing, and financial analysis of organic growth capital projects and/or acquisitions.

- Ability to work with other Commercial groups (gas, NGL, oil), Engineering, Legal, Operations, Measurement, Contract Administration and Accounting are key.

Required experience is commensurate with the selected job level:

- The Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree and 2-5 years of relevant job related experience

- The Senior Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree and 5-8 years of relevant job related experience

- The Lead Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant job related experience

Working Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

- Usually, normal office working conditions.

- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time due to prolonged periods of sitting or standing.

- Occasional overnight travel may be required.

- Occasional visits to industrial/manufacturing settings, which may include exposure to various materials and chemicals, as well as extreme temperature conditions and loud machinery, and require appropriate personal protective equipment.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Vet

DISCLAIMER: The above statements, which are subject to change, are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

"An equal opportunity employer/disability/vet The Partnership is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against qualified applicants on the basis of any actual or perceived legally protected characteristics under federal, state, or local law. The nature and frequency of the above working conditions and requirements may vary depending on individual operational circumstances. Where feasible, the Partnership will make reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the job. DISCLAIMER: The statements listed in this job posting, which are subject to change, are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. "