Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager (Freight)

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Houston, TX

About The Position

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Position Summary The Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager leads a team of analysts responsible for generating deep market insight and analytical tools that inform, complement, and enhance trading strategies across freight markets. This role is pivotal in providing market fundamentals expertise to support trading, origination, and optimization decisions. This position drives the generation of actionable insights to create commercial value and margin capture across MPC’s value chain. The manager ensures alignment between business objectives, analytics capabilities, and cross-functional needs. This role champions a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Energy Markets, or a related field.
Eight (8) years of fundamental market analysis or related experience.
Experience managing or mentoring analysts and driving cross-functional projects.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with scenario analysis, optimization, or time-series forecasting techniques.
Strong commercial intuition and ability to translate analytics into trade-relevant insight.
Curiosity-driven approach to understanding complex market structures.
Ability to manage ambiguity and quickly pivot analytical focus during volatile market periods.
Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex ideas into business outcomes.
Collaborative mindset with commercial and technical teams.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of fundamental analysts focused on freight markets.
Translate commercial objectives into clear analytical roadmaps, prioritizing analysis and projects based on value, feasibility, and business impact.
Partner with trading, origination, and other internal teams to identify opportunities for analytical innovation.
Oversee the development of high-quality supply/demand balances, models, and analytics across time and geography.
Drive timely insights into market dislocations, arbitrage opportunities, pricing drivers, and inter-regional pricing relationships.
Collaborate with commercial teams to develop anticipatory market assessments and forward-looking trends.
Support trade idea generation, risk assessment, and valuation for physical moves, storage plays, blending strategies, and optionality.
Embed analytics as a core enabler of value creation within trading and physical supply decisions.
Ensure work products are transparent, well-documented, validated, and aligned with the needs of the business.