Business Development Manager - Southern Cone (Crude And Products)

Business Development Manager - Southern Cone (Crude and Products)

BRL 20.000 - 80.000

About Argus

Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools, and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets. Headquartered in London with over 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.

Companies, trading firms, and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading, and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities, and energy. Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.

Argus Media is committed to ensuring career and personal growth for all its staff and provides extensive training and career development opportunities, as well as participation in employee-led initiatives, including a women’s network. Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Partnership, and Inclusivity.

What we’re looking for

This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical, inquisitive, numerate, and literate individual to develop expertise in a fast-moving and politically significant global energy market.

Your role will include engaging with Southern Cone-based companies and government entities active in the oil products and crude oil market. The environment is fast-paced but values careful thought. You will enjoy collaborative work with colleagues from a range of backgrounds, many located in Argus’ other offices around the globe.

What will you be doing

• Build relationships with national and private oil companies/oil products, traders, distributors, producers, consumers, logistics providers, and other stakeholders in Latin America’s Southern Cone.
• Defend and promote usage of Argus prices among companies and entities active in these markets by identifying opportunities, crafting, and delivering appropriate messaging to market participants to win support and adoption of Argus benchmarks.
• Regularly communicate, verbally and in writing, information from external meetings and information on market developments to Argus management, editorial, sales, and marketing.
• Leverage knowledge gained from market engagements to help update and develop new initiatives aimed at securing market usage of Argus benchmarks.

Skills and Experience

• Fluency in Spanish and English a must. Fluency in Portuguese a plus.
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Excellent persuasion skills, with the ability to identify and express value propositions and sell ideas.
• Willingness and ability to travel 50% of the time.

Attributes

• Self-motivated, confident, and results-driven individual.
• Highly organised to manage own workload and efficiently meet targets.
• Courteous, friendly, and positive.

What’s in it for you

Our rapidly growing, award-winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognizes and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.

• A Christmas bonus (also called “13th Salary”), equivalent to one monthly salary.
• A 30-day vacation period per year.
• A vacation payment equivalent to one-third of your monthly salary.
• A severance fund to be deposited in a special bank account (FGTS), in the amount of 8% of your monthly salary.

Additional Benefits

• Health Insurance – SulAmerica
• Dental Insurance – SulAmerica
• Life Insurance – Prudential
• Pension Plan
• Parking

By submitting your job application, you automatically acknowledge and consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data to the Company. Argus is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.