Job: Operations Manager of CORS Norway, an ExxonMobil subsidiary
Education: MSc in Strategy and International Marketing

“I joined ExxonMobil as an analyst in August 1996. My responsibilities extended from analysing profits and margins to modelling market data. Soon afterwards, I was transferred to the sales department and became a regional manager in the motorist section, responsible for about 30 stations in south-eastern Norway. This job taught me what running a service station was really about. The work varied from sales campaigns and operations analyses of the stations to the appointment of new dealers.

“My next move was to the company’s exchange programme, which gives young employees a chance to broaden their horizons and work experience by serving in one of ExxonMobil’s other European organisations. I was posted to Breda in the Netherlands, and took part in a number of highly interesting strategy projects – everything from introducing new products in the national market to acquiring competitors. After about a year there, I transferred to Brussels in Belgium for eight months and participated in a strategy project which analysed the company’s British station network.

“I’m now operations manager for CORS Norway, an ExxonMobil subsidiary which operates all the company’s stations. I serve as the link/coordinator for preparing operating procedures, and support our regional managers in their day-to-day work. Being back in an operational setting gives me new impulses as well as the opportunity to benefit from my experience.”