Fuel Sourcing and Sustainability Procurement Manager

Fuel Sourcing and Sustainability Procurement Manager

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Royal Caribbean Group’s Procurement team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Fuel Sourcing and Sustainability Procurement Manager reporting to the Sr Mgr, Procurement.

Position Summary Industry business leader and procurement expert for marine fuel products and delivery operations. Provides strategic guidance and day-to-day management to the team of commodity managers and buyers to establish compliant, cost-effective, and uninterrupted processes to secure fuel for RCG’s global fleet. Develops and executes sustainable and lower carbon fuel procurement to meet RCG sustainability, Scope 1 Carbon reduction goals and compliance with regulations.

Proactively engages suppliers, ports, government authorities to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, delivery schedule, maritime safety/security requirements. This position monitor’s global energy markets, maintains short term and long-range plans, provides frequent updates to the vessels, Global Marine Operations, Newbuild, Deployment and Corporate Finance Leaders on day-to-day fuel ops, opportunities, value creation and supplier performance. Additionally, the Sourcing and Sustainability Manager should possess strong financial and analytical expertise to establish themselves as a subject-matter expert (SME) in the Fuel and Supply Chain Management organization.

This includes expertise in gathering business requirements, collecting, storing relevant data and providing the data-driven solution in an easy-to-understand format to our stakeholders.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Supports executing the Bunker optimization and delivery operations for RCI, CEL, SSC, TUI and HLC vessels which results in over 150,000 tons of annual consumption, $1 billion in direct fuel expense.
• Manages the fuel sourcing strategy for ~20% of global bunker ports & regions, including procurement of LNG, liquid drop-in biofuels, methanol, conventional marine fuels, as well as alternative commodities (marine engine lube oils).
• Leads continuous oversight of the order process, communications with suppliers and the vessels to ensure 99.9% delivery and specification accuracy given the extraordinary importance of timely fuel supply for our ability to deliver the cruise to the guests.
• Researches existing and future lower-carbon fuel technologies to meet RCG’s carbon reduction goals and emerging carbon reduction mandates in EU and other jurisdictions.
• Collaborates with emerging fuel providers, central and local governments, port authorities to establish alternative fuel production and supply chain with particular focus on second generation biofuels, LNG and Bio-LNG and Green methanol.
• Works with shipbuilding companies and transportation operators to develop logistical infrastructure, land and ocean-going assets to transport and bunker alternative fuels to the managed fleet in key global ports.
• Plans & coordinates the yearly and long term conventional and low carbon fuel procurement programs for RCG fleet with all external/internal stakeholders, including cost avoidance saving targets aimed to generate multi-million-dollar annual savings.
• Leads the development and execution of procurement and negotiation process based on multiple volatile variables that drive oil, gas, finished petroleum products and alternative fuels markets. Ensures contractual premiums, transportation and delivery schedules are based on advanced economic order…