Trading Operations Analyst - Power

4520 Marathon Petroleum Logistics Services LLC; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is seeking a Trading Operations Analyst to support the North America Power team with market analysis, trading support, and data organization. The role focuses on gathering and cleaning large power market datasets for clear internal communication and decision making.

The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and eager to learn power trading, refinery electricity exposure, and North American power markets within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Marine or related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in Commercial, Risk, Trading Analytics, Marine, Scheduling, or Marketing.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to organize large data sets.
• Clear and concise written communication skills.
• High attention to detail and ability to turn messy information into clean summaries.

Responsibilities

• Support power supply planning for refinery and industrial electricity needs across North America.
• Support the Power Book Lead and trading team with daily tracking of power positions and market exposure.
• Assist with trading profit and loss, risk, and position reporting involving multiple internal groups.
• Track day-ahead and real-time power prices, forward curves, and market events.
• Develop and maintain models, dashboards, and tools to visualize power market exposure and costs.
• Collect and organize large datasets from market platforms, utilities, and internal systems.
• Provide analytical support for new business opportunities and trading strategies.
• Prepare recurring market updates, cost reports, and presentations for stakeholders.
• Interface with back/mid-office and external contacts on settlements and market intelligence.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Pivot tables

Job description

An exciting career awaits you 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.

Position Summary

The Trading Operations Analyst will support the North America Power team with market analysis, trading support, electricity cost reporting, and data organization. This role will be focused on gathering, cleaning, sorting, and organizing large volumes of power market and facility cost data into clear analysis and concise internal communication. The role is intended for someone who is analytical, detail-oriented, highly organized, and interested in building a foundation in power trading, refinery electricity exposure, and North American power markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Support power supply planning for refinery and industrial electricity needs across North America.
• Support the Power Book Lead and trading team with daily tracking of power positions, market exposure, refinery electricity costs, and related commercial activity.
• Support trading profit and loss, supply and demand models, and position reporting by tracking daily positions and reconciling differences between Traders, Commercial Risk, Operations, Producers, Customers, and other internal groups.
• Track day-ahead and real-time power prices, forward curves, congestion, basis, load, generation outages, weather, natural gas prices, and other market events that may impact trading performance or refinery electricity costs.
• Develop and maintain commercial models, dashboards, reports, and tools that improve visibility into power market exposure, electricity costs, hedge performance, spark spreads, and trading opportunities.
• Collect, clean, sort, and organize large datasets from market platforms, ISO/RTO websites, utility bills, internal systems, spreadsheets, and third-party data providers.
• Provide analytical support for new business opportunities, trading strategies, refinery power optimization, market intelligence, and commercial strategy development.
• Prepare recurring market updates, position summaries, cost reports, ad-hoc analysis, and presentations for Commercial, leadership, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Interface with back office, mid-office, internal business units, and external contacts on new customer setup, trade reconciliation, settlement support, commercial activity review, market intelligence, and issue resolution.

Education, Experience and Attributes

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Marine or related discipline required.
• Three (3) or more years of experience in Commercial, Risk, Trading Analytics, Marine, Scheduling, or Marketing required.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to organize large amounts of market, cost, and operational data.
• Clear and concise written communication skills.
• High attention to detail and strong follow-through.
• Ability to turn messy information into clean summaries, tables, and action items.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple recurring tasks at the same time.
• Comfortable asking questions, checking assumptions, and working across commercial, operational, technical, and financial teams.
• Curious, reliable, and willing to learn power trading from the ground up.
• Good judgment around accuracy, confidentiality, and business impact.
• Strong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, charts, and structured data tables.
• Experience working with large datasets and identifying errors, outliers, missing data, and inconsistencies.

Skills

1. Accountability
2. Action Planning
3. Business Acumen
4. Commercial Awareness
5. Communication
6. Competitor Analysis
7. Data Analysis
8. Process Efficiency Improvements
9. Relationship Management
10. Results Driven
11. Supply Demand Analysis
12. Teamwork

Location

San Antonio, TX, Houston TX, Findlay OH Estimated Travel: Less then 5%

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Additional locations: Findlay, Ohio, Houston, Texas

Job Requisition ID

00022662

Location Address

19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

Education

Bachelors (Required)

Employee Group

Full time

Employee Subgroup

Regular

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

We welcome all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.

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, and educational reimbursement.
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

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

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.