Lead Contracts Specialist / Contracts Specialist

About the role

Ampol is recruiting for its Contracts Team in Singapore at either the Contracts Specialist or Lead Contracts Specialist level, depending on the candidate's experience. Both roles report to the Contracts Team Lead (Functional) and the Contracts Team Manager (People Leadership). The main focus is preparing, reviewing and negotiating contracts for the sale and purchase of petroleum products and crude oil, and managing the associated paperwork.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare, review and negotiate contract documentation (including supplementary documents) for the sale and purchase of crude and petroleum products, within agreed parameters.
• Identify and escalate legal, commercial and operational concerns and opportunities to internal subject matter experts, and help resolve them to minimise legal and commercial risk.
• Support reports, checks and reviews relating to Ampol trading operations.
• Review and improve processes and procedures for establishing contracting positions and ensuring compliance with policies, including fraud, bribery and corruption, counterparty due diligence, delegation of authority, dispute management and document retention.
• Build a strong relationship with the trading team, understand commercial drivers and risks, and know when escalation is needed.
• Influence best-practice ways of working, develop value-add tools and resources, and provide coaching and mentoring to other Contracts Team members.
• Work with the Trading and Legal teams to identify and monitor continuous-improvement opportunities, share information and workload with the Singapore trading and legal teams, and take part in team meetings.
• Provide litigation and dispute support to the Ampol Singapore Legal team as required, and undertake other reasonable duties.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in a related discipline such as Law, Maritime Studies or Supply Chain.
• Approximately 3-10 years' experience in the contracts function of a crude oil and/or petroleum products trading business.
• Experience in an unstructured, fast-moving environment handling complex, ad-hoc sale and purchase oil trading contracts.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of contractual terms and conditions.
• High competency in contract analysis and negotiation.
• Sound knowledge of Incoterms, industry General Terms and Conditions, and the operations of crude oil and petroleum products trading and shipping.