Energy Trading Specialist

About the Role The Energy Trading Specialist executes physical trading activities to balance supply and demand within ExxonMobil's system, focusing on supply chain balancing trades. This role identifies hedging requirements but is not authorized to trade derivatives.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with Optimizers to implement commercial strategies that ensure system balance and maximize value through identification and capture of highest value alternatives identified by optimization signals.
• Execute short-term purchases and sales of crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, biofuels, environmental / emissions credits, power, and related services in alignment with optimization signals.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of market fundamentals, trading practices, regulations, and standard industry contracting norms.
• Develop and sustain relationships with market participants to support timely and efficient execution.
• Ensure all trading activities comply with ExxonMobil guidelines, functional requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Manage transactions and contracts through the entire supply cycle, ensuring accurate documentation in relevant systems.
• Participate in optimization strategy development and provide market insights to support value chain decisions.
• Identify hedging requirements for executed physical trades and communicate them to the appropriate team for action.

What We're Looking For

• Experience or skills in energy commodity & derivative trading.
• Strong negotiation, opportunity & market identification, and trading market analysis capabilities.
• Quantitative & technical trading analysis, energy risk analysis & mitigation.
• Strategic contract development, optionality valuation, trading scheduling, deal structuring skills.
• Familiarity with financial markets execution and market pricing mechanisms.

Nice to Have

• Optionality valuation, trading scheduling, deal structuring, financial markets execution, market pricing mechanisms.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary and benefits are not specified in the posting.