AuctionConnect and Tideform are seeking an experienced and commercially driven professional to join their growing teams as Senior Commercial Manager. The role offers a unique opportunity to help shape the future of bunker procurement and market intelligence while working directly with shipping companies, bunker suppliers, traders, and procurement leaders across the global maritime industry.
Reporting directly to the CEO, the successful candidate will play a central role in expanding the commercial footprint of both businesses while helping customers navigate the industry’s accelerating digital transformation, increasing market volatility, and evolving fuel landscape.
About AuctionConnect & Tideform
AuctionConnect is a maritime technology company focused on transforming bunker procurement through transparent, efficient, and data-driven digital workflows. Designed specifically for the shipping and bunkering industries, the platform enables buyers and suppliers to connect, collaborate, and execute transactions through a modern procurement environment.
Tideform complements this offering by providing trusted market intelligence, pricing transparency, and benchmark insights powered by one of the industry’s largest databases of verified bunker deliveries. Through advanced dashboards, APIs, and AI-powered solutions, Tideform helps organizations make informed commercial decisions in increasingly complex fuel markets.
Together, AuctionConnect and Tideform are building the digital infrastructure and intelligence layer that will support the next generation of marine fuel procurement and market analysis.
The Role: Senior Commercial Manager
This is a highly visible commercial position suited to an individual with strong industry relationships, commercial acumen, and a passion for helping modernize the maritime sector.
Working across both AuctionConnect and Tideform, the successful candidate will help customers connect market intelligence with digital procurement tools while supporting commercial growth initiatives across major shipping, trading, and bunkering markets worldwide. The role offers significant autonomy, direct exposure to senior industry stakeholders, and the opportunity to contribute to the strategic direction of two fast-growing maritime technology businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Commercial Growth: Build and develop a high-quality sales pipeline across both AuctionConnect and Tideform while identifying new business opportunities among shipowners, operators, bunker suppliers, traders, and procurement organizations.
- Business Development: Manage the full commercial process from prospecting and relationship development through contract negotiation and successful deal closure, while delivering compelling product demonstrations and customer presentations.
- Industry Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to customers by helping organizations modernize procurement practices, embrace digital transformation, and implement more data-driven decision-making processes.
- Market Expansion: Represent the companies at industry conferences, exhibitions, customer meetings, and networking events while leveraging market knowledge and industry relationships to identify new growth opportunities.
- Customer Success Collaboration: Work closely with Product and Customer Success teams to ensure strong customer adoption, long-term retention, and continuous value delivery across both platforms.
Candidate Profile
- Experience: Candidates should possess significant experience within the bunkering, shipping, marine fuels, trading, procurement, or broader maritime sectors.
- Commercial Expertise: A proven track record in business development, sales leadership, commercial management, or customer relationship management is essential.
- Industry Knowledge: Applicants should demonstrate a strong understanding of marine fuel procurement, bunker market dynamics, and commercial decision-making within shipping and maritime organizations.
- Stakeholder Engagement: The ideal candidate will have experience engaging senior executives and key decision-makers while maintaining an established network across one or more major maritime hubs.
- Technology Awareness: Experience working with technology platforms, digital solutions, SaaS products, or maritime technology businesses will be considered a significant advantage.
Why Join AuctionConnect & Tideform?
- Industry Transformation: Play an active role in helping modernize one of the world’s most important industries during a period of significant change driven by digitalization, sustainability, and alternative fuels.
- Direct Access to Leadership: Work directly with the CEO and contribute to the commercial strategy and growth plans of two rapidly expanding maritime technology companies.
- Global Industry Exposure: Engage with leading shipowners, operators, procurement teams, bunker suppliers, and trading organizations across international markets.
- Entrepreneurial Environment: Join a lean, agile, and international team where initiative, innovation, and commercial impact are highly valued.
- Competitive Compensation: Receive an attractive compensation package tailored to experience, expertise, and geographic location.
About the Location
This is a global search, and applications are welcomed from candidates based in major shipping, trading, and bunkering hubs worldwide. Whether located in Singapore, Dubai, London, Rotterdam, Geneva, Copenhagen, Athens, Houston, or other key maritime centers, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within a highly international environment focused on shaping the future of marine fuel procurement and market intelligence.
How to Apply
Professionals interested in applying for the Senior Commercial Manager position are encouraged to submit their applications directly through AuctionConnect’s recruitment channels.
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