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Certification
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Alfiya Nikolaeva

Houston,TX

Summary

Highly motivated, experienced Business Development manager with a proven track record of driving sales and developing long-term business relationships in the North American energy market. With 5+ years of direct sales and account management experience. 15+ Years of Experience in the Energy Industry, client-facing roles: Traditional Oil and Gas and Energy Transition.

Strategically-minded in capturing new business and leveraging dynamic market opportunities. Accomplished in exceeding targets with a results-driven approach.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Development Manager

SLB
05.2009 - Current
  • Strategy for Developing Digital Solutions: Cloud Solutions, Software, Innovation Factory, and Consulting Services for North America, Guyana, Trinidad, and Caribbean
  • Leading business development for portfolio of more than 10 products and 70 customer companies
  • Developed strategy and won tenders of up to $100 MM TCV, Including transition and deployment plans.
  • Identifying key customers and technologies for the growth
  • Identifying and addressing at-risk customers
  • Grew local team 350% during last 2 years
  • Achieving project margins of up to 40%

Account Management and Sales

SLB
  • Personally responsible for generating revenue of $35MM/ year (25% growth YoY).
  • Pre-sales engagements, public speaking on trade shows
  • Proposals and pricing strategies based on value.
  • Established and expanded positive customer relations, achieving targeted guidelines for sales and planned contribution margin.
  • Managed key accounts in North America for my domain

Marketing

SLB
  • Performed market research and analysis
  • Identified appropriate marketing channels and target customers for campaigns.
  • Developed campaigns and specific marketing strategies for clients.
  • Wrote engaging and successful marketing, advertising
  • Trade shows: preparing and presenting demo materials,
  • Conducted research to analyze customers' behavior, preferences and purchasing habits.
  • Strategic Marketing, product positioning, value proposition, competitors analysis

Project Manager

SLB
  • 10+ years of experience In Project Management.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Delivering projects on time and on budget. Proposal, P&L, Delivering to the clients
  • Agile approach, 100% satisfactory scorecard, multiple returning customers

Consultant

SLB

15+ years of asset consulting. D&A activities, Created Development Strategy for O&G Fields and Operations, Multi-domain team of experts

  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
  • Managed multiple deadlines across several businesses to meet dynamic needs of multiple clients.
  • Created and developed detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
  • Integrated multi-disciplinary projects: Numerous Field development Strategies: FDP audits, quick asset evaluations, project risk and uncertainty analysis
  • External and internal client facing: during proposal, execution and final delivery for executives

Non-profit Leadership

Society Of Petroleum Engineers
08.2019 - 08.2023

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Ambassador.

2020-2022 – SPE Board of Directors

2019-2022 – Chair Energy Dot. Leadership Summit

Chair Emerging Engineers Symposium

  • LinkedIn campaigns and advertisement
  • Led Multiple Teams 14-40 people
  • Organized series of International Leadership Talks
  • Chaired (head) and Responsible for Yearly budgeting and P&L for committees: Energy Dot Leadership Summit, Emerging Engineers Symposium, Scholarship Award Banquet
  • Orchestrated (Chaired) International Leadership Summit combining 7 industries: Oil and Gas, Renewables, Finance, High Tech, HR, Academia, Motor-sports

Education

Management Development Program

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2021

Master of Science - Petroleum Engineering

Heriot-Watt
Edinburgh, UK

Master of Science - Physics And Electronics

Bashkir State University
Russia

Skills

  • Business Development
  • Strategy
  • Marketing
  • Project management
  • Customer Engagement
  • Communication
  • Account Management
  • Business Planning
  • Contract Negotiation Expertise

Accomplishments

I am an experienced hire bringing new ideas:

- Entrepreneurial: Start-Up Owner. created start-up from the ground up. From business plans to adding partners for additional investments, Contract negotiations, Marketing, Sales, daily operations, people, and stakeholder management.

- Corporate: 15+ years of successful experience in a corporate environment through different roles and different geographies: Europe, North America, Middle East

- Customer-centric: building a Metric-driven product, marketing & customer success business. Consultancy background (solutions, not products). Dialogue, not monologue,

- New Tech: Digital, Innovation, Energy Transition and Low Carbon & Renewable energy, New Energy

- Multi-domain: proven track record beyond E&P, as well as within (across exploration, field development, and production)

- Adaptable: Worked in large (100,000+ people) and small, growing organizations (5+ people), global operations, multidisciplinary teams,

Certification


2023 – Negotiation skills

2023 – Sales Tactics

2022 – Digital Business Excellence

2022 – Customer Centricity Culture

2014 – Project Leadership Training

2012 – People Management

Timeline

Non-profit Leadership

Society Of Petroleum Engineers
08.2019 - 08.2023

Business Development Manager

SLB
05.2009 - Current

Account Management and Sales

SLB

Marketing

SLB

Project Manager

SLB

Consultant

SLB

Management Development Program

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Master of Science - Petroleum Engineering

Heriot-Watt

Master of Science - Physics And Electronics

Bashkir State University
Alfiya Nikolaeva