Senior Fundamental Trading Analyst (Heavy Products)
San Antonio, TX - USA
Job Summary
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Position Summary
This Senior Fundamental Trading Analyst supports MPCs Global Supply Trading and Origination organization by delivering highimpact heavy products market analytics that directly inform trading origination and planning decisions. The role owns endto heavy products fundamental analysis including global supplydemand balances flow dynamics and quality economics and translates complex market signals into timely actionable insights embedded within commercial workflows.
This position is designed as a key analytics role with direct proximity to trading activity requiring strong commercial judgment analytical ownership and close collaboration with traders schedulers and origination teams.
Role Scope and Development
This role is designed as a key development position within Supply Trading and Origination Analytics. The analyst will work in close partnership with traders and commercial leadership gaining direct exposure to trading decisions risk management and execution workflows. Through daytoday collaboration and periodic trading coverage responsibilities the analyst will build practical commercial judgment and execution experience alongside core analytical ownership.
Primary Objectives
- Provide decisiongrade heavy products market analytics that directly support trading origination and supply optimization
- Own and continuously enhance heavy products differential and quality datasets to ensure analytical integrity and commercial relevance
- Partner closely with traders schedulers and origination teams to integrate analytics into daytoday execution and strategic positioning
- Build deep expertise in global heavy products fundamentals refinery economics and structural market drivers
- Collaborate with quantitative analytics and other commodity trading analysts to enhance market insights apply advanced analytical techniques and establish consistent commercial analytics best practices
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain global heavy products supplydemand and balance models monitoring production refining demand inventory trends and global heavy products flows
- Analyze differentials quality impacts and arbitrage opportunities providing proactive adhoc analytics based on current market dynamics
- Deliver timely insights and market intelligence to trading scheduling and origination teams to support commercial decisionmaking
- Ensure accuracy consistency and integrity across market databases models and reporting outputs
- Provide regular market updates and forwardlooking analysis highlighting risks opportunities and structural shifts
- Support Supply Trading and Origination in identifying new commercial opportunities and evolving market dislocations
- Translate complex market dynamics into actionable strategies using modeling visualization and analytical tools
- Distill complex analysis into clear concise insights and communicate effectively with commercial and crossfunctional partners
Education and Experience
- Bachelors Degree in Business Finance Marketing Economics Engineering Marine or related discipline required.
- Five (5) or more years of experience in Commercial Risk Trading Analytics Marine Scheduling or Marketing required.
- Experience in crude or heavy products trading analytics physical commodity markets supply optimization refinery economics or related commercial analytics roles
Preferred Experience:
- Working knowledge of commodity supply and demand fundamentals including production refining inventories and global flows
- Experience analyzing commodity differentials quality impacts and regional pricing benchmarks
- Advanced Excel skills for analytical modeling and scenario analysis
- Familiarity with data visualization or analytics tools such as Power BI Tableau or similar platforms
Skills
Action Planning
Business Acumen
Commercial Awareness
Communication
Competitor Analysis
Data Analysis
Process Efficiency Improvements
Relationship Management
Results Driven
Supply Demand Analysis
Teamwork
Location: San Antonio TX or Houston TX
Relocation: Yes
Estimated Travel: <10%
This position grade may vary depending on candidate experience. The successful candidate will be placed at a level commensurate with experience and qualifications.
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Location:
San Antonio TexasAdditional locations:
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Location Address:
19100 Ridgewood PkwyEducation:
Bachelors (Required)Employee Group:
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Required Experience:
Senior IC