Senior Structured Energy Trader (Schenectady)

At Eneco, proprietary trading plays a meaningful role in accelerating the energy transition. You contribute by applying market expertise to improve efficiency, flexibility, and resilience in energy systems. You work in a commercial and performance-driven environment where decisions are data-driven and made close to the market. This allows you to act quickly while operating within a clear risk framework. Our culture is people-oriented and collaborative. You will work closely with traders, analysts, and risk specialists who challenge each other and continuously raise the bar. At the same time, you get the space to bring your own ideas, take calculated risks, and grow your impact. This role is especially important for strengthening our proprietary trading capability. You help build confidence, drive performance, and contribute to a more mature and scalable trading setup. As a Senior Structured Energy Trader, you focus on identifying and monetizing optionality across global energy markets. You combine a strong quantitative mindset with commercial intuition to generate sustainable, risk-adjusted returns. Your work centers around understanding how value is created within complex market structures and translating that into actionable trading strategies. You operate across power, gas, emissions, and related products, trading both exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, including options and structured solutions. A key part of your role is developing proprietary strategies based on volatility, market inefficiencies, and cross-commodity dynamics. You also work on structured contracts such as Virtual Power Plants, gas storage, swing agreements and index-linked deals, where optionality plays a central role. In this role, you take a market-driven and quantitative approach to longer-term opportunities, typically spanning two to five years. Rather than focusing on physical assets, you assess and trade the financial optionality embedded in energy markets. At the same time, you contribute to building a stronger and more mature proprietary trading desk by setting standards, sharing expertise, and helping elevate overall team performance. You are an experienced trader with a strong track record and a clear understanding of optionality and risk. You enjoy working in an environment where performance, ownership, and continuous improvement are key. You bring: A degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or similar;At least 5 years of experience in energy trading (prop trading, hedge fund, utility or similar);Proven experience with options and structured energy products;Strong knowledge of option pricing, volatility, and risk (Greeks);A quantitative mindset combined with strong commercial instincts;The ability to perform and make decisions under uncertainty;Comfort with taking responsibility for both upside and downside outcomes. Generating profitable trading strategies and managing risk-adjusted returns;Managing portfolios of financial and physical optionality across markets;Valuing structured products using quantitative and stochastic models;Identifying opportunities driven by volatility dislocations, weather, regulation, and market fundamentals;Building and maintaining valuation frameworks for complex energy structures;Collaborating with risk, analytics, and tech teams to improve trading infrastructure;Contributing to a diversified and resilient proprietary trading portfolio;Helping to strengthen the performance culture and capability of the trading desk.You will join Eneco’s proprietary trading desk, where different trading “DNA’s” come together: short-term power, gas, and structured trading. In this role, you act as a bridge between quantitative options trading and broader structured opportunities in energy markets. You bring expertise that complements existing teams and helps elevate overall performance. The team operates in a high-performance environment with strong accountability. At the same time, collaboration and knowledge sharing are key, success is achieved together. Ahmed Hammoudan, our Head of Trading, will be happy to answer your questions via View email address on apply.placed-app.com more information about the application process, you can contact our recruiter Kevin Wouters via View phone number on apply.placed-app.com or View email address on apply.placed-app.com notice:We fill our vacancies through direct recruitment. Therefore, unsolicited acquisition based on this vacancy is not appreciated.Turn complex market opportunities into tangible P&L in global energy markets;Work on advanced analytical and quantitative challenges in a fast-changing energy landscape A high-impact role with real autonomy in an ambitious and growing proprietary trading desk