Freight Trading Analyst, LPG
London, LND, GB, SE10SU
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What role you will play in our team
If successful, you will be an integral part of our Global Trading organization, supporting LPG and freight trading activities across global energy markets. We are seeking a highly motivated analyst with strong freight market knowledge, analytical capabilities, and commercial acumen to develop market insights, forecasting models, and analytical frameworks that support freight trading, risk management, and commercial optimization.
In this role, you will work closely with freight traders, LPG traders, chartering teams, originators, and risk professionals to evaluate vessel supply and demand fundamentals, freight market dynamics, voyage economics, and market disruptions. You will contribute to the development of actionable market views and analytical solutions that support both physical and derivative freight trading strategies in a fast-paced and evolving global shipping environment.
What you will do
- Monitor and analyze global LPG freight markets, including vessel supply and demand balances, fleet utilization, vessel availability, trade flows, and freight rate movements.
- Develop and maintain freight market models linking vessel supply, cargo demand, trade flows, route economics, and freight pricing dynamics.
- Analyze key drivers impacting LPG freight markets, including fleet growth, export and import demand, vessel positioning, port congestion, canal transit constraints, weather events, and geopolitical developments.
- Conduct short-, medium-, and long-term freight market forecasting to support physical and derivative freight trading activities.
- Evaluate voyage economics, shipping arbitrage opportunities, fleet utilization trends, and freight market dislocations to identify actionable trading insights.
- Partner closely with freight traders and LPG traders to develop market views and support trading strategy development.
- Perform scenario analysis, back-testing, and validation of freight market assumptions, forecasts, and trading strategies.
- Utilize and enhance analytical tools incorporating vessel tracking data, AIS data, port intelligence, freight market data, and macroeconomic indicators.
- Serve as a key user and contributor to freight optimization, analytics, and trading support platforms.
- Assess the impact of regulatory developments, geopolitical events, environmental regulations, and market disruptions on freight market fundamentals and pricing.
- Provide economic analysis of freight assets, transportation agreements, and freight-linked commercial opportunities.
- Produce market commentary, presentations, and analytical reports that communicate market developments and trading opportunities to commercial stakeholders.
- Collaborate with traders, analysts, quantitative teams, and commercial stakeholders to improve market intelligence and analytical capabilities.
- Support ad hoc commercial analysis, strategic projects, and special initiatives across the trading organization.
What you bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Finance, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Maritime Studies, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of global freight markets, shipping economics, and maritime transportation dynamics.
- Experience analyzing LPG freight markets, vessel movements, freight pricing, shipping economics, or related commodity transportation markets.
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills with the ability to generate actionable commercial insights from complex market information.
- Experience developing market forecasts, analytical models, scenario analyses, or commercial decision-support tools.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, Power BI, Excel, or other analytical and visualization tools.
- Experience working with large datasets, including vessel tracking data, AIS data, freight market data, trade flow data, and market intelligence sources.
- Familiarity with freight rate benchmarks, vessel performance metrics, shipping market indicators, and commercial shipping operations.
- Ability to synthesize complex market data and communicate insights effectively to trading and commercial stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced trading environment.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams while managing multiple priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting LPG trading, freight trading, chartering, shipping, logistics, or commodity trading organizations.
- Knowledge of VLGC markets, LPG trade flows, vessel economics, freight derivatives, and freight risk management.
- Experience analyzing global LPG export and import markets, particularly across the U.S. Gulf Coast, Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
- Familiarity with freight derivatives, freight forward agreements (FFAs), and freight market hedging strategies.
- Experience using maritime intelligence platforms, vessel tracking systems, and shipping analytics tools.
- Understanding of global energy markets, commodity transportation networks, and supply chain optimization.
- Experience developing forecasting models, optimization frameworks, or quantitative analytics supporting trading and commercial decisions.
- Familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms, modern data architectures, and large-scale data processing environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence trading decisions through high-quality market analysis and commercially actionable recommendations.
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designated to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous resettlement allowance
- Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- Share incentive plan
- Private healthcare for employees and their families
- Free Gym at most UK sites
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
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Conditions of Employment
Successful candidates will be made a conditional offer of employment. The conditions include, but are not limited to: a satisfactory criminal records disclosure; satisfactory employment references over five years (where applicable); verification of qualifications, including any professional accreditation stated in the application; completion of a pre-employment medical, including a test for illicit or unprescribed drugs in accordance with the Company's safety policies; and the legal right to work on the agreed commencement date.
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