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This is a remote position.
The Middle East remains the global center of gravity聽for energy, and the sector is in profound聽transformation. Upstream, downstream, EPC, oilfield聽services and the new energy programs reshaping聽the industry all compete for the same critical talent.
Black & Grey HR is a people advisory firm. Since 2016 we have shaped the people聽decisions of 400+ organizations across the GCC and聽beyond. Our energy desk holds longstanding聽relationships with NOCs, IOCs, EPC contractors and聽oilfield service companies across the region.
We are looking for a Business Development Associate聽to open doors across Oil & Gas: operators, EPC firms,聽drilling and oilfield services, sub sea and marine, and聽the contractors that serve them. Your mandate is聽clear: put us in the room with the people who decide.聽Fresh graduates with sharp communication skills and聽genuine hunger for consultative sales are encouraged
to apply.
The Role
You will identify and engage energy companies and聽their supply chain across the GCC. You will build聽relationships with the people who own hiring聽decisions and convert those relationships into聽qualified meetings for our Business Development
leadership.聽Meeting generation and relationship building are the聽success metrics. Everything else supports them.
What You Will Do
- Identify and engage prospective clients across the聽oil and gas value chain, from operators to EPC聽and services
- Generate qualified meetings through cold calling,聽LinkedIn outreach, networking, referrals, email聽campaigns and market research
- Build relationships with HR Directors, Talent聽Acquisition Managers, Project Directors,Operations Managers, Procurement Heads and
- Build relationships with HR Directors, Talent聽Acquisition Managers, Project Directors,Operations Managers, Procurement Heads and
Country Managers
- Schedule and prepare meetings for the Business聽Development leadership team
- Build and maintain a healthy, honest pipeline in聽our CRM
- Understand each client's hiring challenge before聽positioning our recruitment and HR advisory
solutions
- Track project awards, rig activity, EPC contracts聽and energy programs and turn market聽intelligence into opportunity
- Represent Black & Grey HR in energy industry聽events and exhibitions with the presence the聽brand demands
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Petroleum, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or a related discipline
- Fresh graduates welcome. Attitude and communication matter more than tenure
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Natural relationship builder with the confidence to engage senior professionals
- Strong commercial awareness and genuine curiosity about the energy industry
- Self motivated, energetic and target driven
- Persistent, resilient and organized in follow up
Benefits
- Structured training and mentoring in consultative B2B sales, built on our proprietary BlackBox methodology
- Direct exposure to NOCs, IOCs and the region's leading energy contractors
- Cross sector visibility spanning ten dedicated industry desks
- A defined progression path: Business Development Executive, Account Manager, Sales Leadership
- Performance driven culture with attractive incentive structures
- An entrepreneurial environment where good judgment is expected and rewarded
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