Trader I, II, Sr., Principal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +8 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee and enhance a natural gas trading portfolio with an emphasis on the Midwest and Rockies markets.

• Initiate, formulate, and implement strategies to seize profitable term natural gas trading prospects within the Midwest and Rockies area.

• Continuously monitor and assess relevant market conditions, adjusting trades as required by market dynamics.

• Review current trading processes and collaborate with trading teams to enhance efficiency, transparency, and value-added initiatives.

• Assess, execute, and manage both short and long-term storage positions throughout the Midwest and Rockies, optimizing around seasonal differences, as well as power and industrial demand to generate additional value.

• Leverage experience to create optimization and trading strategies while guiding origination efforts to realize these strategies.

• Effectively communicate summaries of pertinent market conditions and opportunities to higher management within the organization.

• Hold primary accountability for establishing and implementing trading strategies that maximize the value of EQT's contractual pipeline capacity and storage assets.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related discipline.

• At least 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.

• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities, along with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Innovative and creative mindset with a robust capability to comprehend market conditions and translate them into profitable outcomes.

• Familiarity with regional pipeline and storage infrastructure, understanding supply and demand dynamics, and building relationships with commercial stakeholders.

• Competence in constructing a regional supply and demand model, including knowledge of specific pipeline constraints, flows, costs, storage, contracts, end users, and scheduling.

• Experience in trading physical commodities, futures, swaps, options, storage, indices, and spreads.

• Ability to significantly contribute to the formulation of natural gas commercial strategies.

• Established relationships with commercial stakeholders (producers, pipelines, utilities, end users, traders).

• Understanding of how to calculate both intrinsic and extrinsic values of transportation capacity and storage opportunities.

• Willingness to travel up to 10-20% of the time for customer events, industry conferences, and team meetings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for remote work

• Opportunities for professional development