Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager (Nat Gas)

Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager

At MPC, we're committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

The Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager leads a team of analysts responsible for generating deep market insight and analytical tools that inform, complement, and enhance trading strategies across the Natural Gas, LNG and Power commodities. This role is pivotal in providing market fundamentals expertise to support trading, origination, and optimization decisions. This position drives the generation of actionable insights to create commercial value and margin capture across MPC's value chain. The manager ensures alignment between business objectives, analytics capabilities, and cross-functional needs. This role champions a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of fundamental analysts focused on Natural Gas, LNG and Power.
• The Manager will work in close partnership with traders and commercial leadership, gaining direct exposure to natural gas trading decisions, risk management, and execution workflows.
• Translate commercial objectives into clear analytical roadmaps, prioritizing analysis and projects based on value, feasibility, and business impact.
• Partner with trading, origination, and other internal teams to identify opportunities for analytical innovation.
• Oversee the development of high-quality supply/demand balances, models, and analytics across time and geography.
• Drive timely insights into market dislocations, arbitrage opportunities, pricing drivers, and inter-regional pricing relationships.
• Collaborate with commercial teams to develop anticipatory market assessments and forward-looking trends.
• Support trade idea generation, risk assessment, and valuation for physical moves, storage plays, blending strategies, and optionality.
• Embed analytics as a core enabler of value creation within trading and physical supply decisions.
• Ensure work products are transparent, well-documented, validated, and aligned with the needs of the business.

Skills

• Familiarity with scenario analysis, optimization, or time-series forecasting techniques.
• Strong commercial intuition and ability to translate analytics into trade-relevant insight.
• Curiosity-driven approach to understanding complex market structures.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and quickly pivot analytical focus during volatile market periods.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex ideas into business outcomes.
• Collaborative mindset with commercial and technical teams.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree Required.
• Eight (8) years of fundamental market analysis or related experience.
• Experience managing or mentoring analysts and driving cross-functional projects.

Preferred Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Energy Markets, or a related field.
• Direct natural gas trading desk experience or exposure to natural gas origination and commercial workflows
• Familiarity with natural gas basis markets, EIA storage dynamics, and pipeline flow analytics.
• Advanced Excel skills for supply-demand modeling, storage forecasting, and market analysis.
• Familiarity with data visualization or analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms; proficiency in Python as a complement to fundamental analysis.

Location: Houston, Texas

Job Requisition ID: 00022542

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenshipor any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.