Job Description
MB Energy, founded in 1947 and headquartered in Hamburg, is an independent and integrated energy company with operations in Europe, the United States, and Singapore. The company is active in the import, storage, distribution, and marketing of petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), chemicals, and biofuels. With decades of industry experience and an innovative approach, MB Energy plays an active role in the global energy landscape, supporting its customers in the transition to lower-emission energy sources by developing and providing forward-looking alternatives.
Let's shape the future of the energy industry together!
For our company headquarters in Hamburg's HafenCity, we are looking for you to start as soon as possible as
Asset and Storage Optimisation Manager (m/f/d)
Here's what you can look forward to:
Join our team as an Asset and Storage Optimisation Manager (m/f/d) and take responsibility for shaping how we use, optimise, and grow our storage assets. You work at the intersection of Trading & Supply, Dispatch, Logistics, Asset Management, and external partners, ensuring collaboration across all key stakeholders.
In this role, you ensure the most profitable utilisation of our tank capacity, make strategic decisions on internal versus external allocation, and continuously review the commercial use of terminals and third-party facilities. You also evaluate and challenge investment proposals, ensuring they create long-term value, support business growth, and strengthen our company's overall profitability.
- Storage Utilisation: You analyse, monitor, and optimise the use of storage sites and tank capacity to ensure maximum efficiency and commercial value.
- Capacity Planning: You determine annual tank capacity requirements, deciding how much to retain, release, or reallocate depending on contractual commitments and business needs.
- Allocation Decisions: You evaluate and decide on the internal versus external allocation of spare capacity, inclding whether to rent tank space to external parties or use it internally.
- Investment Evaluation: You verify and challenge investment and optimisation proposals from other departments, ensuring alignment with business growth, profitability, and value creation.
- Terminal Optimisation: You assess and recommend the most effective use of terminals each year, balancing operational feasibility with economic returns, and review third-party storage facilities.
- Asset Strategy Development: You develop and implement strategies for the long-term economic optimisation of storage assets and continuously improve existing facilities and processes.
- Asset and Storage Expertise: Strong understanding of asset and storage management processes
- Commercial Valuation: Experience in assessing tank storage capacity and investment proposals from a profitability perspective
- Investment Verification: Ability to critically evaluate optimisation ideas, balancing risk and return.
- Analytical Skills: Talent in optimising storage utilisation, profitability, and value creation through data-driven analysis
- Negotiation and Decision-making: Proven skills in negotiating and deciding on internal versus external capacity allocation
- Technical Proficiency: Confident in using relevant data tools and systems to support decision-making
- Language Skills: Fluent in English to collaborate effectively in an international environment; German is a big plus
With these characteristics, you fit perfectly with us:
- Communicative and Collaborative: You work productively with cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Strategic and Results-driven: You combine a strategic mindset with the focus and drive to maximise value from assets and storage facilities
Even if you do not fulfil all of the above requirements, we encourage you to apply if you believe your experience will add value to our team.
- Work-life balance: 38.75 working hours per week with 30 days of annual leave
- Ability to work freely: Flexible working hours and individual remote work arrangements
- Remuneration and additional benefits: profit sharing, 13 salaries, holiday pay, travel allowance, etc.
- Support in various life situations: through our partner pme Familienservice, offering support in life crises as well as professional advice on work-related and personal matters, such as childcare, elder care, and more
- Security and provisions: Accident insurance also covering private accidents; excellent employer's contribution to your company pension scheme; lifetime account with opportunities to save for sabbaticals or early retirement
- Health: Subsidised membership in EGYM Wellpass, providing access to a wide range of sports facilities across Germany, as well as online courses in fitness, nutrition and meditation; free access to the Headspace app; bicycle leasing
- Learning and development: Support on your individual development path with internal and external training opportunities
- Networking: Networks within the company to establish cross-team and international connections; company events
- Open corporate culture: A family-owned company with drive, a culture of lived tolerance, speak-up mentality and strong team spirit on the path to a green future
- Modern collaborative office: with a subsidised employee restaurant, open-plan office concept and views of the Elbe River and the harbour