Senior Manager Fuel Sourcing & Trading

Alaska Airlines • SeaTac, WA

1d • $148,250 - $229,800 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Fuel Sourcing & Trading leads Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Airlines’ enterprise fuel sourcing, logistics, and trading strategy. The role is accountable for supply reliability, commercial value, market and counterparty risk, governance, and organizational capability across the fuel portfolio. It sets the multi-year strategy and operating model, establishes decision rights, controls, risk tolerances, and performance measures, and directs execution across significant supplier, logistics, and trading relationships.

The role advises executive leadership on market exposure, sourcing alternatives, price-risk strategies, major commercial commitments, and emerging supply risks. As a people leader, it develops a high-performing team integrating market intelligence, trading, contracting, logistics, analytics, and risk management to improve cost competitiveness, price stability, supply resilience, and transparency.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of jet fuel, crude oil, or refined-products trading, sourcing, supply, or logistics experience, including commodity trading and price-risk management.
• At least 4 years of leadership experience, including some direct people leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field, or two additional years of relevant experience in lieu of the degree.
• Experience setting multi-year sourcing, trading, or supply strategy and establishing governance, controls, delegated authorities, and performance measures.
• Experience leading complex, high-value sourcing, trading, logistics, or counterparty negotiations and contract governance.
• Strong knowledge of refined-products markets, supply logistics, pricing benchmarks, forward curves, basis risk, and price-risk management.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including market modeling, scenario analysis, deal structuring, risk quantification, and executive recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and cross-functional partners, build high-performing teams, develop talent, and lead change.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, relevant master’s degree, or advanced commercial, trading, risk, or supply-chain certification.
• Experience leading an enterprise fuel sourcing, trading, or supply function.
• Deep experience in West Coast and PADD 5 refined-products markets, infrastructure, basis dynamics, and waterborne economics.
• Experience building or scaling commodity trading, price-discovery, or price-risk-management capability.
• Experience using an ETRM platform.
• Experience with self-supply or direct-import programs, including cargo financing, letters of credit, chartering, and marine logistics.
• Experience with pipeline, terminal, marine, and ground-fuel logistics and scheduling systems.
• Experience with Sustainable Aviation Fuel procurement, blending economics, or emerging aviation-energy markets.
• Experience operating within formal trading controls, counterparty-risk, compliance, and transaction-governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise fuel sourcing, logistics, and trading strategy and multi-year roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
• Own the sourcing and trading operating model, including decision rights, delegated authorities, policies, controls, counterparty requirements, risk limits, compliance routines, and executive governance.
• Direct enterprise fuel supply strategy, contracting, competitive sourcing, pipeline and terminal nominations, pricing administration, category management, and supplier performance.
• Develop market views, sourcing alternatives, and price-risk recommendations using refined-products fundamentals, forward curves, basis relationships, benchmarks, logistics constraints, and scenario analysis.
• Provide senior oversight for approved sourcing and trading activity to ensure alignment with risk tolerances, financial controls, delegated authorities, counterparty requirements, and performance objectives.
• Lead major commercial evaluations and negotiations across the fuel portfolio, including complex supply, logistics, terminal, pipeline, and trading-counterparty agreements.
• Own strategic supplier and counterparty governance, including qualification, due diligence, credit and operational risk coordination, performance reviews, escalation, corrective action, and relationship strategy.
• Lead and develop the sourcing and trading team, setting priorities, clarifying accountability, building succession and technical capability, and integrating sourcing, trading, logistics, analytics, and risk-management disciplines.
• Advise executive leaders on fuel cost exposure, market conditions, supply risks, sourcing and trading opportunities, commercial tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
• Partner with the Fuel Controller, Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Legal, Supply Chain, Operations, and other stakeholders on exposure monitoring, valuation, controls, reporting, and business continuity.
• Sponsor development and integration of energy trading and risk management, market-data, scheduling, analytics, and reporting capabilities.

Benefits

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Air with high priority status.
• Select number of confirmed travel credits provided annually.
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Generous 401(k) match program.
• Annual bonus plans.
• Generous holiday and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior