Advisor, Refinery Supply & Optimization

Cenovus Energy — CA-AB-Calgary

Posted 2026-11-04

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 11/19/2026

About this opportunity:

The Advisor, Refinery Supply & Optimization, is responsible for analyzing, understanding, and communicating the performance of the Refining business, with a focus on operating plan performance, inventory management, and financial delivery. The role supports the refining system from crude purchasing through Trading to the processing of finished products across refinery assets.

The successful candidate will leverage data, dashboards, analytical tools, and AI to identify insights and evaluate performance, while partnering with key stakeholders and peers to understand results and effectively communicate findings that support business decisions.

What you’ll do:

  • Analyze and communicate Refining business performance across operating plans, inventory management, and financial delivery.
  • Support performance reporting across refinery assets and the Refinery Supply Trading team.
  • Develop and maintain dashboards, reporting tools, and analytical solutions to monitor key performance measures and business results.
  • Lead monthly performance reporting activities, ensuring analysis and deliverables are completed accurately and within established deadlines.
  • Analyze complex operational and financial data to identify trends, performance gaps, and key business insights.
  • Partner with Refining, Supply, Commercial, Finance, and other key stakeholders to understand results and communicate clear, actionable insights.
  • Independently lead smaller initiatives, troubleshoot reporting tools and data challenges, and use data-driven insights to influence business decisions and continuous improvement.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

  • Legally authorized to work in Canada
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business/Finance, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, ideally within refining, downstream, supply, commercial, or energy operations.
  • Strong understanding of refinery operations, including process units, refinery economics, operating plans, inventory, and key performance drivers.
  • Knowledge of refinery supply and crude movements, including pipeline infrastructure, crude purchasing, logistics, and how oil commodities move through the supply and refining system.
  • Strong digital and analytical capability, with experience using data to evaluate performance, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and generate actionable business insights.
  • Experience developing dashboards, automated reporting, analytical tools, or data-driven solutions using technologies such as Power BI, Databricks, Python, SQL, or similar tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with large and complex datasets, translating detailed operational and financial information into clear, meaningful insights for stakeholders and leadership.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to independently lead analysis, influence stakeholders, and communicate complex information in a simplified and business-focused manner.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT November 18, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

  • Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
  • Health & dental benefits
  • Substantial mental health coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • Employee family assistance
  • Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

  • Internal course offerings
  • Education assistance for additional development
  • Opportunities to work on special projects
  • Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

  • Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
  • Our values:
    • Protect what matters
    • Do it right
    • Make it better
    • Do it together
  • Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
    • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
    • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
    • Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.
  • Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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