Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager (Nat Gas)
About The Position
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 the Natural Gas, LNG and Power commodities. 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 Required.
- Eight (8) years of fundamental market analysis or related experience.
- Experience managing or mentoring analysts and driving cross-functional projects.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with scenario analysis, optimization, or time-series forecasting techniques.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Energy Markets, or a related field.
- Direct natural gas trading desk experience or exposure to natural gas origination and commercial workflows.
- Familiarity with natural gas basis markets, EIA storage dynamics, and pipeline flow analytics.
- Advanced Excel skills for supply-demand modeling, storage forecasting, and market analysis.
- Familiarity with data visualization or analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms; proficiency in Python as a complement to fundamental analysis.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of fundamental analysts focused on Natural Gas, LNG and Power.
- Work in close partnership with traders and commercial leadership, gaining direct exposure to natural gas trading decisions, risk management, and execution workflows.
- 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.
Benefits
- Access to health, vision, and dental insurance
- Paid time off
- 401k matching program
- Paid parental leave
- Educational reimbursement
- Discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
