Research Director – Short-Term Gas

Wood Mackenzie is the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

We are looking for a Research Director /Senior Natural Gas Analyst to lead our Short-Term Gas S&D. Our dedicated oil and gas sector teams are located around the world and deliver research and consulting projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets. Together we work with a range of clients including national and major oil companies, operators, investment banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, and institutional investors. This is a fantastic leadership opportunity to make an impact.

About the role

This position will be responsible for conducting and directing modelling and forecasting of North American natural gas market fundamentals and communicating the results of their and the group’s analysis to clients, prospects, and other market participants. The preferred candidate will have extensive prior exposure to gas and associated commodity markets such as power, oil, and NGLs, with intimate familiarity of NYMEX and/or basis markets; subject matter expertise is a necessity.

Candidates should have demonstrated experience creating and/or operating supply demand, and storage models. Preference will be given to those with forecasting credentials. The ideal candidate will also need to demonstrate comfort with and professionalism in presenting their findings to small and large audiences for the purpose of supporting product sales and establishing the firm’s view of the market. The ideal candidate would also have at least 2 years in a leadership role. Accordingly, the position requires travel at roughly 25% of time.

This role will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and operating regional and macro market balances and forecasts to identify market opportunities and communicate those to clients. This role will require the delegation of work within the team, and it must be able to advise those within the team as to the necessary strategic direction of its point-of-view.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Extensive exposure to North American natural gas markets. Preference will be given to candidates with prior exposure to commodities associated with gas markets such as power, oil, NGLs, and LNG. Subject matter expertise is needed.
• Intimate familiarity with fundamentals of NYMEX and basis markets.
• Demonstrated experience creating and/or operating supply, demand, and storage models.
• Experience with near- and long-term forecasting preferred.
• Ability to and comfort with presenting in front of small and large groups in order to communicate company views on markets and methodologies.
• Ability to support sales to prospects and existing clients.
• ~25% travel

• 5+ years of experience conducting market analysis and model development in the commodities sphere.
• Demonstrate knowledge of NYMEX fundamentals and trends.
• Familiarity with North American basis markets and influences on each.
• Preference will be given to those with proficiency in SQL and advanced stats packages, such as Python or R.
• Must have excellent written and oral communications skills

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