Strategic Business Analyst

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Presentation of the entity and department:

World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,5 million customers and patients.
Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders. Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities, in an open, creative, collaborative and respectful environment.

The function is located at the heart of Large Industries (LI)-World Business Line (WBL) (large industrial customers), within the Africa Middle East India (AMEI) Hub organization, supporting operational entities notably liaising with Commercial and Business Development teams, Operations and Project controlling, World Business Line market teams, Engineering and Construction, Market Intelligence… etc.

The entity is the AMEI Hub head office and is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Presentation of the team:

AMEI Large Industries team is a small, multicultural & delocalized team focusing on strategy topics (business analysis, energy, customer relationship, regulatory). The team members are spread across the AMEI perimeter.

You will report to the AMEI LI Vice President with the following key missions:
Strategic planning: support steering the mid and long term vision : contract referential, competitive watch, provide vision on basins evolution;
Roadmap for growth: contribute to identifying priorities for key battlegrounds, coordinate contributors towards definition of underlying growth strategy, priorities selection and coordinate alignment between stakeholders, including the Air Liquide Group;
Customer relationship: Coordinate key customer relationship strategy in connection with SAM/KAM and entity stakeholders, coordinate the discussion on customers networking and follow-up of networking plans;
Energy transition roadmap : support Hub energy management team to consolidate and further drive the decarbonization roadmap, including entity mapping and sharing of entities best practices

You will be part of a very collaborative environment at the heart of the AMEI business development team. Also you will gain a strong exposure by reporting directly to the Large Industries AMEI VP in charge of Growth Strategy, and connecting with the Business Development and Commercial population in the Hub and Group.

The main mission domains are:

• Supporting the HUB Large Industries team (and WBL LI indirectly) in data-analytics and data consolidation, through reports and performance analyses, dashboards, presentations & tools.
• Promote the usage & deployment of Business Analysis, Commercial performance and Market intelligence tools, reports and indicators, within the management & business developers community in AMEI.
• Work on ad-hoc studies and projects (ie Energy Transition and Blue/Green Hydrogen related)
• Project pipeline management, through Selection Committee organization and capitalization

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Are you a MATCH?

**Candidate education:

• Engineering background and/or
• Business School background

Field of specialization: chemistry, energy, commercial, data analytics, etc

Hard and Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Eager to learn and deliver in a fast-paced and challenging environment
• Ability to work under pressure with short deadlines
• Team and network player
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Strong Google Suite and general ease of use for IT-related tools

W ork experience:

Minimum 3 months of trainee experience or internship

Languages:

• English - mandatory
• Arabic, French - advantageous

**Position based in Dubai, UAE for 12/18 months extendable to 24 months. A few travels across AMEI might be expected.

**Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:

[https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en/what-is-the-vie-french-international-internship-program>

The V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country.

Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link: [https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en>.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.