ExxonMobil has a person who specifically works with functions to help identify opportunity areas (GBC, MSP) and develop execution plan. So there you have it, a chief leading a team whose sole job is to find opportunities to ship out your jobs. The company is looking out for its interest and so should we.
https://www.ssonetwork.com/events-shared-services-week-autumn/speakers/rana-razzaque
@ak we will see!! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!!
In so many ways, I miss the good old days when people we all knew and who had distinguished themselves by working their way up through the businesses where the ones making the difficult decisions that affected us all. Now there seems to be no end to pulling unknown and undistinguished people out of completely irrelevant backwaters of the company and giving them unearned power over all of our futures. The only thing worse is pulling unknown and undistinguished people from irrelevant industries like failed airlines, failed distilleries, and failed automakers. Have a nice day!
Strategy: reduce, relocate, retrain.
1) Divest Downstream refineries and plants until XOM has 10 integrated locations on 4 continents (1or 2 in EU, 4 in US, 3 in Asia, plus 1 more)
2) Divest Upstream to just 12 to 15 countries: Guyana, Permian, Canada HO, Haynesville gas, Qatar, PNG, Gorgon, Brazil, plus a few DW assets in W. Africa, NE med.)
3) Expand and train BTC employees
4) Reduce HC10 headcount mainly EU, Canada then US.
5) Replace employees with contracting companies for most field operations.
Result : Upstream headcount cut to under 5000. CL 30+ positions cut in half. 50% of employees in BTC. All doable with AI and Zoom. Travel and relocation and expat costs cut by 75%
I think is Mckenzy!
Head of Workforce Strategy
ExxonMobil Global Business Services
RR joined Exxon Chemicals Company U.S.A. in 1997 as an Information System Analyst. He graduated from University of Maryland at College Park with a dual bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in 1997 and earned an MBA from Houston Baptist university in 2000.
R has had multiple assignments across the ExxonMobil IT organization including EAME IT Planning Manager role in ExxonMobil’s Budapest, Hungary Global Business Center (GBC).
Since 2016, R has had various roles focusing on outsourcing and offshoring strategies and associated change management initiatives. Effective September 2022, Rana took on his current role as Global Workforce Strategy Manager.
In his current role, he works with functions to help identify opportunity areas (GBC, MSP) and develop execution plan.
@ah you should absolutely reach out to him and ask. I am going to call him up first thing tomorrow.
January 2026 likely. January 2028, possibly not. HC10 would be a non-existent term then, because they are cut to bare bones or divested, and the only high cost place is the US. likely the job of workforce strategy manager would be made redundant too
Maybe I should msg him and ask will I have job in January