Trader I/II/Sr./Principal

The role

The Trader I/II/Sr./Principal manages and optimizes a natural gas trading portfolio focused on the US East market. This role involves market analysis, risk management, and the execution of physical and financial transactions.

What you will do

• Initiate, develop and execute strategies to capture profitable term natural gas trading opportunities within the US East region.
• Monitor and evaluate relevant market conditions, pivoting in/out of trades as necessitated by market conditions.
• Evaluate existing trading processes and collaborate with trading personnel to improve efficiency, transparency and value-added measures.
• Evaluate, execute, and manage short and long-term storage positions across the US East.
• Use experience to develop optimization and trading strategies and direct origination efforts to execute these strategies.
• Communicate summaries of relevant market conditions and opportunities upward within the organization.
• Establish and execute trading strategies to optimize the value of EQT's contractual pipeline capacity and storage assets.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative/innovative with strong ability to understand market conditions and then translate into profitable results.
• Knowledge and understanding of regional pipeline/storage infrastructure and respective supply and demand composition and working relationships with commercial participants.
• Ability to construct a regional supply & demand model, knowledge of specific pipeline constraints, flows, costs, storage, contracts, end users and scheduling.
• Experience trading physical, futures, swaps, options, storage, index and spreads.
• Ability to meaningfully contribute to the development of natural gas commercial strategies.
• Working relationship with commercial participants (producers/pipelines/utilities/end users/traders).
• Understanding of the calculation of intrinsic & extrinsic values of transportation capacity and storage opportunities.
• Ability to travel up to 10-20% of the time for customer events, industry conferences, and team gatherings.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination.
• Masters degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field.

About the company

EQT Corporation values collaboration through Transparent Leadership, Connected Impact, and Supported Growth.