Quantitative Strategist, Gas & Power
Spring, TX, US, 77389
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What role you will play in our team
We are continuing to expand our Global Trading organization and quantitative analytics capabilities. We are seeking an experienced Quantitative Strategist to support our Gas & Power trading, origination, structuring, and portfolio management activities.
This role sits at the intersection of quantitative analytics, market fundamentals, and commercial decision-making. The successful candidate will work closely with traders, originators, structurers, risk professionals, and technology teams to develop valuation models, forecasting frameworks, optimization tools, and analytical capabilities that support trading and commercial activities across North American and global gas and power markets.
The role combines quantitative modeling, commodity market expertise, and commercial insight to identify opportunities, evaluate risk, and provide decision support across a broad range of physical and financial transactions.
What you will do
You will provide quantitative expertise, valuation support, and analytical insight across Gas & Power trading and commercial activities. Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and enhancing quantitative models supporting gas and power trading, valuation, portfolio optimization, and risk management activities.
- Building analytical frameworks used to evaluate market fundamentals, asset economics, forward curves, basis relationships, volatility, and cross-commodity market interactions.
- Supporting the valuation and structuring of complex commercial transactions involving transportation, storage, power generation, supply agreements, tolling arrangements, and other optionality-driven opportunities.
- Developing statistical, forecasting, optimization, and simulation models to support trading and commercial decision-making.
- Performing scenario analysis, stress testing, and sensitivity analysis to evaluate market risks and commercial opportunities.
- Supporting traders, structurers, and originators through quantitative analysis, pricing support, and market insights.
- Developing and maintaining analytical tools, dashboards, and quantitative infrastructure used across the trading organization.
- Collaborating with technology and data teams to deploy robust, scalable, and production-ready analytical solutions.
- Evaluating model performance and implementing enhancements to improve predictive accuracy and commercial value.
- Communicating analytical findings and model outputs to commercial and technical stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner.
- Contributing to analytical best practices, model governance, documentation standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
What you will bring
- Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science, or another quantitative discipline.
- Experience developing quantitative models within commodity trading, energy markets, financial markets, utilities, or related commercial organizations.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience in valuation, forecasting, optimization, risk analytics, or portfolio modeling.
- Strong understanding of statistical techniques, probability theory, simulation methods, and quantitative modeling approaches.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with modern analytical, visualization, and data-science tools.
- Experience working with large and complex datasets to generate actionable business insights.
- Ability to translate quantitative analysis into commercial recommendations and decision support.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and commercial stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced trading environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in a quantitative discipline.
- Experience supporting natural gas, power, LNG, crude oil, refined products, emissions, or environmental markets.
- Experience with derivative pricing, volatility modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic modeling, optimization techniques, or machine learning applications.
- Understanding of physical and financial commodity markets, including transportation, storage, basis markets, asset optimization, and structured transactions.
- Experience developing models used by trading, origination, valuation, or risk teams.
- Familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms and modern data architectures.
- Experience deploying analytical solutions into production environments and maintaining model governance standards.
- Ability to partner effectively with traders and commercial teams to solve complex business problems and create competitive advantage.
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed 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:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
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