Manager-Business Development

Position Description:

KinderHawk Field Services LLC (KinderHawk), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, is a midstream natural gas company that provides gathering, treating and dehydration services in the prolific Haynesville and Bossier Shale areas of Northwest Louisiana. KinderHawk owns and operates an extensive network of newly-constructed and state-of-the-art gathering, treating and dehydration facilities located in Bossier, Caddo, Webster, Bienville, De Soto, Red River and Sabine Parishes, Louisiana. The KinderHawk system has a capacity well in excess of two billion cubic feet of natural gas per day (2 Bcf/d) with 19 interconnections to major downstream pipelines.

Primary Purpose:

- Grow Kinder Morgan’s Northwest Louisiana gathering and gas treating business by developing and negotiating opportunities and projects.

- Facilitate constant and necessary communication between customers and inter-company departments.

- Monitor the gathering system’s daily nominations, treating capacity setpoints, and pipeline activities to provide primary guidance to Gas Control, Scheduling, and Operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Generate prospects, lead negotiations, develop economic evaluations, creative problem solving, prepare management presentations, and present investment opportunities to senior management.

- Develop and negotiate commercial terms for revenue generating agreements for treating facilities and gathering pipelines.

- Identify and develop capital expansion opportunities (define scope, coordinate preparation of cost estimates, prepare economic analysis, etc.).

- Develop and maintain close business relationships with existing or potential customers and other key industry representatives.

- Work closely and regularly with Operations, Engineering, Project Management, Legal, Financial Forecasting, Gas Supply/Marketing/Optimization, Business Development, Contract Administration and Scheduling

- Perform other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

Education:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Finance or Accounting

- MBA a plus

Experience / Specific Knowledge:

- A minimum of 5 years of diverse and progressively responsible industry related experience.

- Ability to develop contractual framework for formal agreements.

- General understanding of pipeline and processing operations including basic technical design, quality parameters, hydraulics and scheduling functions.

Competencies, Skills, and Abilities:

- Must have well developed oral and written communication, interpersonal, negotiation, and presentation skills.

- Advanced proficiency level in MS Office applications including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

- Advanced proficiency level in MS Office Excel; including experience with economic modeling and data analysis.

- Must be able to analyze all aspects of a proposed commercial transaction (financial, contractual, legal, operational and marketing).

- Must be self-motivated and capable of performing tasks with minimal supervision.

- Must be articulate, work well under pressure and be consistently able to meet deadlines.

- Must be flexible and able to work effectively with a multi-disciplined team, handle multiple priorities simultaneously, focus attention on details, and follow work rules.

- Excellent negotiating and interpersonal skills required.

Working Conditions:

- Basic office environment with periodic travel, occasionally on short notice.

- Hybrid work schedule.

- Extended work hours required in cases of deadlines and/or emergencies.

- Routinely required to work independently.

- Anticipated travel: 10-20%

Join our team and help shape the present and future of North America’s energy infrastructure with a career at Kinder Morgan. Kinder Morgan offers competitive wages, annual cash incentive awards, 401(k) savings plan, retirement plan, comprehensive medical/RX, dental, life and disability insurance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.