Commercial Specialist – Oil & NGLs, India

About The Role Grade Level (for internal use): 11

The Role: Commercial Specialist – Oil & NGLs, India is responsible for the customer experience and revenue growth of S&P Global Energy, Crude oil, Fuels & Refining bank of business in India territory. This requires close co-ordination with Commercial team, Channel Partners, Marketing team, Client Services, Content team and Product team. The key objectives of this role are to increase revenue of Market Data and Market Insights. This growth needs to be achieved from new and existing Crude Oil/ Fuels & Refining customers through market engagement, sales capability building, bringing customer insights into product development and thoughtful market targeting. As a “sell-through” role, the Commercial Specialist – Crude Oil/ Fuels will work alongside others to drive their success in Oil markets.

The Impact: The role outcomes are meeting/exceeding net-sales targets and meeting metrics around customer engagement, experience and sales capability.

Your Skills: Minimum of 5-10 years of B2B sales and/or industry experience (preferably in Oil/NGLs research, consulting, trading or related industry) with a track-record of achieving revenue targets, developing new markets and maintaining a high-level of customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• This position will be primarily responsible for achieving net-sales and customer experience targets for Crude oil / Fuels & Refining across the Commercial team in India region. The role is also required to develop and execute a revenue growth strategy for Crude Oil/ Fuels & Refining in India and collaborate to identify cross commodity cross-sell opportunities in line with the S&P Global Energy strategy.
• Responsibilities also include developing and strengthening relationships with our existing clients, with regular travel to client sites for sales and relationship building, conducting regular reviews with key customer contacts to gain insight into clients’ business initiatives, market engagement activities through briefings, events and other marketing-led activities, and supporting sales efforts to grow new and existing customers into larger contracts.

Understand key customers in portfolio and needs, coordinate with S&P Global Energy Commercial, Product & Marketing teams.

• Understand the relationship and the information requirements within a complex multi-functional customer base. Strategically understand the S&P Global Energy sales organization and resources, familiarize with colleagues and understand S&P Global Energy sales channels and sales objectives and means.
• Participate in planning and executing account management schedule and detailed action plan. Understand key deliverables. Meet and exceed the assigned net sales goal as well as other customer metrics.
• Use the insights gained from Crude Oil/ Fuels and NGLs customers to inform the Product Development, Research and Marketing team activities & strategies, and to ensure that S&P Global Energy has relevant offers for local markets.
• Lead the development of customer case studies for relevant ‘big wins’, clearly documenting the value of S&P Global Energy’s essential Intelligence to the customer’s business operations.

Growth of Net Sales and New Business

• Net sales quota shall be met by working closely with the Sales Managers, Relationship Managers, Channel Partners, AI and Datafeed Specialists. Growing account portfolio spending on current products by increasing license agreements, volume of usage through the prescribed systems and processes. Grow Crude Oil/ Fuels and NGLs - Market Data and Market Insights sales through identifying whitespace, cross-selling and upselling research services and insights and increasing the spent-on S&P Global Energy offers.
• Address and/or escalate all customer issues and concerns.
• Develop strategies to improve the capability of Field Sales, Telesales, Strategic Accounts and Channel Partners through role plays, interactive training, field visits, sales tools and telephone call scripts/key talking points.

Market engagement, Customer Visits, Channel Partner Support, Conferences & Forums

• Develop and strengthen relationships with our Customers and Channel Partners, including extensive travel to client sites for sales and relationship building. Attend marketing & channel conferences, events, roundtables, workshops and forums to promote S&P Global Energy Oil and NGLs offerings.
• Conduct market engagement activities in support of the S&P Global Energy, Asia Strategy.
• Support joint initiatives across S&P Global in the Crude Oil/ Fuels/ NGLs space.

Account Records Maintenance & Self development

• Co-ordinates with the Commercial team to maintain CRM activity log, monthly reports, meeting notes. Communication is critical to ensure S&P Global Energy has a seamless approach to the customer. Also maintains account plan and profile while identifying potential risks and opportunities for Crude Oil, Fuels and NGLs business within the account.

What We're Looking For

• Must hold Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 5-10 years of B2B sales and/or management experience ((preferably in Oil/NGL trading, research, consulting or related industry) with a track-record of achieving revenue targets, developing new markets and maintaining a high-level of customer satisfaction.
• Strong solution-selling background with proven experience in maximizing customer value and through coordinated account planning and team approach both internally and externally
• English and Hindi speaking capability is a must.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (MS Word, Excel, DB and PPT), Internet and CRM systems like Salesforce.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Demonstrated strong relationship building with customers, markets and internal stakeholders. Strong oral and written skills are required to enable effective communications at all levels within the company and with customers
• Experienced negotiator, demonstrating logical, influencing and consulting skills. Ability to interact at the highest level of decision making with key industry players.
• Ability to independently acquire knowledge of industry, competitors, trends and products.
• Familiarity with monitoring oil/ refined products and/ or NGLs flows preferred
• Ability to travel 20-50%+ within the territory

About S&P Global Energy At S&P Global Energy, our comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make superior decisions and create long-term, sustainable value. Our four core capabilities are: Platts for news and pricing; CERA for research and advisory; Horizons for energy expansion and sustainability solutions; and Events for industry collaboration.

S&P Global Energy is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise, and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive economically in a rapidly changing global landscape. Learn more at www.spglobal.com/energy.

What’s In It For You? Our Mission Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

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• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
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40 - Sales (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), SLSOUS402.2 - Middle Professional Tier II-Ou Sales (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 325418

Posted On: 2026-02-11

Location: Mumbai, Mahārāshtra, India