Senior Fundamental Trading Analyst

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Position Summary

This Senior Fundamental Trading Analyst supports MPC's Global Supply Trading and Origination organization by delivering high‑impact crude and heavy products market analytics that directly inform trading, origination, and planning decisions. The role owns end‑to‑end crude and heavy products fundamental analysis, including global supply‑demand balances, flow dynamics, and quality economics, and translates complex market signals into timely, actionable insights embedded within commercial workflows. This position is designed as a key analytics role with direct proximity to trading activity, requiring strong commercial judgment, analytical ownership, and close collaboration with traders, schedulers, and origination teams.

Primary Objectives

• Provide decision‑grade crude and heavy products market analytics that directly support trading, origination, and supply optimization
• Own and continuously enhance crude, differential, and quality datasets to ensure analytical integrity and commercial relevance
• Partner closely with traders, schedulers, and origination teams to integrate analytics into day‑to‑day execution and strategic positioning
• Build deep expertise in global crude fundamentals, refinery economics, and structural market drivers
• Collaborate with quantitative analytics and other commodity trading analysts to enhance market insights, apply advanced analytical techniques, and establish consistent commercial analytics best practices

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain global crude and heavy products supply‑demand and balance models, monitoring production, refining demand, inventory trends, and global crude and heavy products flows
• Analyze differentials, quality impacts, and arbitrage opportunities, providing proactive ad‑hoc analytics based on current market dynamics
• Deliver timely insights and market intelligence to trading, scheduling, and origination teams to support commercial decision‑making
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity across market databases, models, and reporting outputs
• Provide regular market updates and forward‑looking analysis highlighting risks, opportunities, and structural shifts
• Support Supply Trading and Origination in identifying new commercial opportunities and evolving market dislocations
• Translate complex market dynamics into actionable strategies using modeling, visualization, and analytical tools
• Distill complex analysis into clear, concise insights and communicate effectively with commercial and cross‑functional partners

Role Scope and Development

This role is designed as a key development position within Supply Trading and Origination Analytics. The analyst will work in close partnership with traders and commercial leadership, gaining direct exposure to trading decisions, risk management, and execution workflows. Through day‑to‑day collaboration and periodic trading coverage responsibilities, the analyst will build practical commercial judgment and execution experience alongside core analytical ownership.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Marine or related discipline
• Five (5) or more years of experience in Commercial, Risk, Trading Analytics, Marine, Scheduling, or Marketing

Preferred:

• Experience in crude oil trading analytics, physical commodity markets, supply optimization, refinery economics, or related commercial analytics roles
• Working knowledge of commodity supply and demand fundamentals, including production, refining, inventories, and global flows
• Experience analyzing commodity differentials, quality impacts, and regional pricing benchmarks
• Advanced Excel skills for analytical modeling and scenario analysis
• Familiarity with data visualization or analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms

Skills

• Action Planning
• Business Acumen
• Commercial Awareness
• Communication
• Competitor Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Process Efficiency Improvements
• Relationship Management
• Results Driven
• Supply Demand Analysis
• Teamwork

Location and Travel

• Location: Houston, TX
• Relocation: Available
• Estimated Travel: <10%

Employment Details

• Job Requisition ID: 00020445
• Location Address: 500 Dallas St Ste 2900, Houston, Texas
• Education: Bachelor's (Required)
• Employee Group: Full time
• Employee Subgroup: Regular
• Position Grade: May vary depending on candidate experience. The successful candidate will be placed at a level commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Benefits

Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to:

• Access to health, vision, and dental insurance
• Paid time off
• 401k matching program
• Paid parental leave
• Educational reimbursement
• Eligibility for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program

Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at talentacquisition@marathonpetroleum.com. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation.

We will consider all qualified applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

About Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.