Quality & Logistics Optimizer

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What’s the role

As a Quality & Logistics Optimizer (Blender), you will be responsible for designing, coordinating, and executing blending and logistics strategies to deliver products that meet quality specifications, timing, and location requirements at the lowest achievable cost. Operating at the intersection of trading and operations, you will serve as a key partner to traders, maximizing commercial value through blend optimization, minimizing quality giveaway, and ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant execution across the supply chain.

In this role, you will be a key front-line operator within Shell Trading & Supply, managing blending and logistics activities across terminals, vessels, barges, trucks, and ship-to-ship (STS) operations throughout Europe. You will play a direct role in maximizing Trading P&L by identifying and capturing value through operational excellence, quality optimization, and efficient supply chain execution in a fast-paced environment that demands rapid, high-impact decision-making.

Success in this position requires close collaboration with Trading, Operations, and external service providers, as well as strong engagement with Shell-owned assets and Joint Venture (JV) refineries. You will be expected to balance commercial opportunities with operational realities, aligning blending and logistics decisions with asset capabilities, strategic objectives, and business constraints to deliver optimal outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Blending & Optimization:

  • Design optimal blend recipes within quality and operational constraints.

  • Ensure the delivery of on-specification products at the lowest achievable cost.

  • Optimize blend economics and minimize quality giveaway.

  • Continuously improve portfolio performance and blending strategies.

  • Maintain active market awareness to identify component and blending opportunities.

• Operational Execution:

  • Execute blending and operational plans safely, efficiently, and in line with business objectives.

  • Coordinate product movements and blending activities to ensure uninterrupted supply.

  • Monitor operational performance and proactively resolve issues impacting product quality or delivery.

  • Ensure inventory positions and operational activities are aligned with commercial requirements.

  • Drive operational efficiency while maintaining product integrity and compliance.

• Trader Partnership & Planning:

  • Act as a key partner to traders and co-own the operational plan.

  • Translate trading strategies into executable blending and logistics plans.

  • Ensure product delivery at the right quality, location, timing, and cost.

  • Provide operational insights to support commercial decision-making.

• Stakeholder & Contract Management:

  • Manage external relationships with terminals, inspectors, vessel operators, additive suppliers, and counterparties.

  • Engage effectively with internal stakeholders, including traders and commercial operators.

  • Act as the contract holder for terminal and inspection service agreements.

  • Drive performance through effective contract management, KPI monitoring, and cost control.

  • Participate in contract reviews and negotiations to maximize value delivery.

• Commercial Value Creation:

  • Identify and capture value opportunities across components, logistics, and blending strategies.

  • Build, manage, and optimize product and component portfolios.

  • Actively contribute to trading desk margins through optimization and market engagement.

  • Seek arbitrage and efficiency opportunities across the supply chain.

• Performance Management & Continuous Improvement:

  • Own and monitor key performance indicators related to blending, logistics, and operational performance.

  • Analyze portfolio performance and identify opportunities for sustainable improvement.

  • Conduct root cause analyses for operational and quality issues.

  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives and promote best-practice sharing across teams.

• HSSE, Compliance & Risk Management:

  • Ensure compliance with Shell HSSE standards and all applicable regulatory requirements.

  • Manage product quality, contamination, operational integrity, and associated business risks.

  • Ensure adherence to trading, customs, tax, and contractual obligations.

  • Actively support audits, control frameworks, and risk mitigation activities.

• Team Contribution & Leadership Behaviours:

  • Demonstrate strong ownership of P&L impact and cost performance.

  • Operate effectively within a fast-paced, 24/7 trading environment.

  • Support team resilience and business continuity through collaboration and flexibility.

  • Contribute to knowledge sharing, onboarding, and capability development.

  • Champion operational excellence and foster a culture of accountability.

What you bring

• Strong knowledge of product quality specifications, blending methodologies, and optimization principles.

• Solid understanding of terminal operations, storage management, logistics, and supply chain processes.

• Good understanding of trading operations, commercial agreements, and contract structures.

• Basic understanding of customs requirements (e.g., excise status and CN codes) and their impact on blending strategies, import duties, and supply chain economics.

• Strong commercial acumen with a focus on value creation, margin optimization, and cost efficiency.

• Ability to evaluate blending, logistics, and supply chain options through a P&L and value-focused lens.

• Proven ability to make timely, high-impact decisions in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across internal and external stakeholders.

• Ability to effectively manage complex interfaces across trading, operations, logistics, and third-party service providers.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a results-driven mindset.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities, with a creative approach to identifying solutions and opportunities.

• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and deliver results in complex, time-critical environments.

• Collaborative team player with a proactive, self-motivated, and continuous improvement mindset.

• Flexible and resilient, with a hands-on, can-do attitude and a willingness to work outside regular business hours when required to support trading and operational activities.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Note: As part of your application, please submit a motivation letter along with your resume. The motivation letter should outline your reasons for applying to this position and how your skills and experiences align with the job requirements. This will help us better understand your interest in the role and your suitability for the position.

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that not everyone applies when they don’t feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

Shell in The Netherlands

The Netherlands is one of the two founding countries of the company. Here 9,380 employees (March 2024) of more than 100 nationalities jointly work to provide the country with energy for today, for tomorrow and for you.

Energy for today

The refinery at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam (Pernis) - Europe’s largest - is facing a cleaner future with less carbon emissions. Chemicals Park Moerdijk is transitioning to a circular future. Shell operates multiple wind and solar farms in the Netherlands. Both onshore and offshore, Shell is exploring for and producing oil and gas via the Nederlandsche Aardolie Maatschappij, NAM (50% Shell, 50% ExxonMobil). Shell is the market leader in transport fuels. Dutch motorists take 3 billion litres of fuel from 570 Shell retail stations (May 2024) annually, while thousands of Shell's own fast EV charge points and Shell Ubitricity normal charge points are being installed as we speak.

Energy for tomorrow

At the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA), research is conducted into low CO2 energy technologies and sustainable solutions for energy and chemicals. Near Rotterdam Shell builds Europe's biggest green hydrogen plant of the continent. From Amsterdam and The Hague, Shell Nederland leads the transition of the corporation to a more sustainable future, with 6.5 billion euros invested in solar panels, wind farms, green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, EV charging and other groundbreaking solutions for the future.

Energy for you

Even after the company HQ moved to London in January 2022, Shell's commitment to the Netherlands remains very strong. The Hague still housing the headquarters of three of Shell's business divisions, and Rotterdam stays a key trading, marketing and sales hub for Shell products. Combined Shell in the Netherlands works to bring its wide range of energy products as close as possible to you as an energy consumer. This includes a Shell Impact Fund to make the energy transition closer to people with financial challenges, this includes EV chargers on the corner of your street via our daughter company Ubitricity and this includes keeping the country warm in winter with Liquid Natural Gas.

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