Oman Oil Marketing Company SAOG has appointed Jaber Al Wahaibi as Chief Growth Officer, an internal promotion effective in September 2026 and reported on 26 September. The move puts a 21 year veteran of Oman's energy and fuel retailing sector in charge of the growth agenda at one of the country's listed downstream operators, at a point when much of the company's network expansion is taking place outside Oman.
Al Wahaibi steps up from the role of General Manager for International Retail, Business Development, Corporate Planning, Marketing and Digital Transformation, a portfolio he had held since January 2023 and which already combined most of the commercial and strategic functions now gathered under the chief growth officer title. The announcement did not include quotations from the company's chief executive or its board, did not define the role's reporting line or its scope beyond the title, and named no external search firm. Nor did it state whether the position is newly created.
Al Wahaibi has spent more than two decades in Oman's energy and retail sectors, the bulk of it at Oman Oil Marketing Company SAOG, where he held senior positions in retail sales, operations and network analysis before becoming senior manager for business development in January 2020 and general manager three years later. He led the company's entry into Saudi Arabia, building a retail network that the announcement puts at more than 50 fuel stations, and developed the market entry strategy for Tanzania, taking responsibility for financial modelling and operational readiness across Oman, Saudi Arabia and Tanzania. He began his career at Shell Oman Marketing Company SAOG as a retail territory manager in Muscat, overseeing more than 25 fuel service stations. He holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Sultan Qaboos University, awarded in 2004, and has completed executive development programmes in strategy, leadership and negotiation.
Oman Oil Marketing Company SAOG was established in 1998 and took its present name in October 2003. Headquartered in Muscat and listed on Oman's stock exchange, it retails fuel through a national service station network, supplies fuel directly to government and commercial customers, markets lubricants, and operates aviation and marine refuelling, storage and distribution, and convenience retail at its forecourts. Company profiles list the state linked Oman Oil Company SAOC as its largest shareholder with 49 per cent, alongside Oman Cement Company SAOG and Bank Muscat SAOG. Beyond Oman, it operates service stations in Saudi Arabia and Tanzania.
Creating or filling a chief growth officer post indicates where a company expects incremental earnings to come from. Fuel volumes in Oman are bounded by the size of the domestic market, and the company's own record shows expansion concentrated in Saudi Arabia and East Africa alongside non fuel income at the forecourt. Elevating the executive who ran international retail and business development is therefore consistent with a strategy weighted towards cross border network growth and convenience revenue rather than domestic volume, although that reading is an inference from the appointment and his previous remit rather than something the company stated. No growth targets, capital commitments or country plans were disclosed with the announcement, and the company did not say which functions will report to the new role.
