Senior Manager, Market Intelligence

Helmerich & Payne • Tulsa, OK

20h • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Market Intelligence will lead H&P’s global market, commercial, and competitive intelligence capability. The role will establish and maintain an authoritative source of external data, analysis, and insights to inform planning, strategy, commercial decisions, and investor communications. Working across the enterprise, this leader will translate complex market signals into decision-ready perspectives for the Executive Leadership Team, Corporate Finance, the Commercial organization, and other stakeholders.

The position is based on-site in Tulsa, Oklahoma, or Houston, Texas, with domestic travel of approximately 10% as needed. The job level and compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and alignment with the role’s requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, engineering, data analytics, or a related discipline.
• 7–10 years of relevant work experience.
• Deep understanding of rig markets and the drivers of drilling demand, supply, utilization, and pricing, together with strong knowledge of oil and gas macro fundamentals.
• Ability to develop market forecasts, scenarios, and strategic insights from incomplete, conflicting, or fast-changing information.
• Experience supporting senior executives and producing materials for executive leadership and Board audiences.
• Advanced Excel capability, including model development, scenario analysis, data integration, and quality control.
• Advanced PowerPoint and business-storytelling skills, including creating concise, professional-grade presentations from complex analysis.
• Strong practical knowledge of AI-enabled research, synthesis, and content-generation tools, with sound judgment regarding validation, confidentiality, and responsible use.
• Ability to communicate complex market dynamics clearly and persuasively in writing and in person, adapting messages for commercial, financial, executive, and Board audiences.
• Strong facilitation skills and confidence leading global calls, constructively challenging assumptions, and driving alignment across functions and regions.
• Strong organizational discipline, attention to detail, and ability to balance recurring deliverables with rapid-response requests.
• Willingness to travel domestically approximately 10% as needed.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree is advantageous.
• Established knowledge of leading third-party research houses, their datasets, methodologies, and strengths; a strong external network and credible provider relationships are highly desirable.
• Dynamic, curious, commercially minded, and externally oriented, with a desire to understand what is changing and why it matters.
• Self-starter able to define the agenda, build the capability, and deliver at pace with limited direction.
• Intellectually rigorous and objective, with confidence forming a view while remaining transparent about evidence, uncertainty, and alternative outcomes.
• Highly collaborative, able to build trusted internal networks across functions, regions, and levels, as well as external knowledge-sharing relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and execution of H&P’s global market and competitive intelligence agenda, aligned with corporate priorities and decision cycles.
• Create and maintain integrated market models, dashboards, forecasts, scenarios, and recurring intelligence products for planning, strategy, investor relations, and commercial teams.
• Host and lead the weekly Global Commercial Intelligence call, setting the agenda, drawing out regional perspectives, identifying implications, and capturing and sharing actions and insights.
• Organize and develop executive leadership and Board briefings on market conditions, competitors, strategic themes, and emerging risks and opportunities.
• Build, document, and refresh H&P macro house views across priority macro, commercial, and strategic topics, distinguishing facts, assumptions, scenarios, and management judgments.
• Partner with FP&A, Investor Relations, Strategy, Commercial, Operations, Technology, and regional leadership to embed intelligence in forecasts, resource allocation, and decision-making.
• Support investor communications with market context, peer and competitor analysis, data validation, and presentation-ready content.
• Own the enterprise portfolio of market-data and research subscriptions, including assessing needs, managing vendors and renewals, eliminating duplication, controlling costs, managing access, and maximizing adoption and value.
• Maintain relationships with third-party research providers, industry experts, customers, and external knowledge networks; challenge external research when necessary and triangulate competing perspectives.
• Apply AI and automation to research, synthesis, content creation, and knowledge retrieval while maintaining source validation, confidentiality, governance, and human review.
• Establish standards for data quality, sourcing, version control, and distribution, ensuring sensitive information is handled appropriately.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Flexible Spending or Health Savings Accounts
• 401(k) match
• Paid Leave Plans
• Parental and Adoption Benefits
• Disability Coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Educational Assistance
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Flexible scheduling available for qualifying positions to support work-life integration

What This Job Offers

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