Commodities Business Analyst / Project Manager – C2C

Engelhart • Houston, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Engelhart is seeking an experienced and versatile Corp-to-Corp (C2C) Business Analyst/Project Manager to serve as a key liaison with their US Power and Gas trading teams. This role involves designing future processes and solving complex problems within the energy trading sector, with a strong emphasis on physical and structured products like PPAs, Load, Batteries, and gas storage & transportation. The position is part of a multi-year transformation program aimed at revamping the core technology architecture and implementing a new operating model. The role sits within the Business Change function, collaborating closely with the Business Management team to coordinate US change initiatives across Power & Gas. Key activities include coordinating across teams, developing the new operating model, and driving process transformation. The company is integrating its recent acquisition of Trailstone while expanding into more complex commodity markets. This C2C BA/PM will partner with front, middle, and back office stakeholders to challenge existing practices, design future-state processes, and identify technology-enabled solutions, automation, and data-driven improvements. The role requires some travel between Houston and Stamford offices, with potential for international travel. This is a long-term C2C position with the possibility of transitioning to a permanent role.

Requirements

• Several years of experience in a Project Manager or Business Analyst role within the energy trading sector.
• Subject matter expertise in US power & gas.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and shaping problems before solutions are defined.
• Actively contribute to shaping how business change is delivered across the firm.
• Experience working in an energy trading environment, especially physical power.
• Strong all-round change capabilities with an ability to think strategically as well as dive into details.
• Strong understanding of US Power & Gas trading and operations, particularly physical and structured products such as gas transportation and storage, LNG, physical power, Load, PPAs, Battery tolling agreements.
• Strong grasp of US power markets across multiple ISOs.
• Strong understanding of commodities operations, particularly middle and back office functions (e.g. trade lifecycle, scheduling, settlements, P&L).
• Proven experience analysing and redesigning business processes in complex, cross-functional, global environments.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, constructively challenging assumptions while building trust and alignment.
• Experience working with technology-enabled change, including automation and AI.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, actionable solutions.
• Curious and improvement-oriented, with a natural inclination to ask “why” and “what could be better”.

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to operating model or target architecture design.
• Experience shaping AI strategy or identifying opportunities to embed AI into business processes to improve efficiency, controls, or insight generation.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted partner with stakeholders across front office, middle office and back office teams to understand current-state processes, pain points and constraints.
• Use strong knowledge of commodities, physical power and gas products and stakeholder relationships to define the future front-to-back processes for the US Power & Gas teams.
• Act as a project manager across multiple change initiatives, including coordinating across multiple teams.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to challenge existing ways of working and support teams in defining a clear, forward-thinking future state.
• Lead process analysis and redesign activities, especially with trading desks and operations teams.
• Identify opportunities to drive the operating model into the future, especially enabled by technology, data, automation or AI.
• Act as a bridge between business teams and delivery functions, especially technology, ensuring that business needs and outcomes remain central.
• Contribute to portfolio management of change initiatives, helping to prioritise work and align improvements with strategic objectives.
• Support the development of Engelhart’s change capability by introducing project management and analysis best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed