Global Market Risk Manager, Refined Products and Feedstocks

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What Role You Will Play on Our Team

We are seeking a highly skilled and commercially oriented Global Market Risk Manager to lead Market Risk for our global Refined Products and Feedstocks trading portfolios. This position requires deep understanding of the Products & Feedstocks markets and market risk management in those. Leadership and independent thinking with strong commercial instincts and the professional presence to engage with and influence senior trading leadership is important.

The role is embedded within the trading organization and requires daily engagement with book leads, senior book leads and senior trading management across gasoline, distillates, jet, naphtha, blendstocks, biofuels, biofuels credits and refinery feedstocks. The successful candidate will ensure that risk is measured accurately, communicated clearly, and managed in alignment with the company's risk appetite. The candidate will be able to lead and drive the teams to provide meaningful, accurate and timely risk insights to the front office, building a strong report that integrates Risk Management in value creation that expresses itself in PnL while also being a fiduciary to ensure compliance with Risk Policies in place.

This role is a key member of the Global VP Products & Feedstocks Trading leadership team and reports to to Chief Market Risk Officer, ExxonMobil Global Trading. The position interfaces with senior leadership across the Global Trading function, including the President. Sound judgment, situational awareness, and the ability to challenge constructively is important. This position is located in Houston(Spring), Texas and has teams located in Houston, London and Singapore.

Technical Markets & Risk Management Expectations

The ideal candidate brings a good understanding of both the refined products and feedstocks markets and market/price risk management in those. This includes, but not limited to, understanding market structures, spreads, basis dynamics, blending economics, quality arbitrage, optionality in assets/contracts and how to monetize those. This is combined with a strong technical understanding of position management, exposure determination, valuation, Trading PnL attribution, VaR, drawdown, etc, including options, and risk analytics. A solid understanding of how energy trading risk management systems and processes work is also key.

What You Will do

• Lead and develop a global team across three trading hubs of Market Risk Supervisors, Advisors and Analysts, ensuring consistent execution and high professional standards.
• Market Risk focal point for front-office and senior stakeholders. Develop strong relationships with Commercial stakeholders and possess deep end-to-end understanding of trading strategies, associated exposures and future growth aspirations for the trade desk supported.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to market risk management principles, including being proactive, transparent, and open to debate with Trading management as necessary.
• Lead cross functional Market Risk Meetings and collaborate with Global Trading management to oversee market and operational risk. Advise on the financial impact and risk profile of new strategies, transactions, and structural changes
• Accountable and oversee teams performance in monitoring and reporting daily risk, exposure, mark-to-market, P / L, and position matching (physical vs. paper) reports to trading and financial management for all of global products and feedstocks.
• Identify exceptions to established limits and tolerances, remedy through authorizations or corrective actions. Monitor adherence to VaR, stress, and concentration limits and ensure transparency around evolving exposures
• Advise on the financial impact and risk exposure of new strategies, activities or transactions. Leadership in developing risk mitigation plans and strategies.
• Engage directly with trading to assess risks across flat price, cracks, basis, concentration, structure, optionality, and strategy alignment
• Identify and address exceptions to established risk limits and tolerances, coordinating authorization or corrective action as needed. Escalate material risks, breaches, or emerging market dislocations with clear and actionable recommendations
• Collaborate with quantitative and analytics teams to translate advanced risk metrics into commercially relevant insights, including portfolio VaR, desk VaR, and scenario-based stress testing
• Provide independent review and challenge on new deals, optionality structures, and Origination opportunities
• Develop, maintain and share technical risk management knowledge and expertise in energy trading risk management to enable the team, trading and the broader organization to succeed.
• Lead, coordinate and/or support strategic risk management projects
• Maintain comprehensive awareness of market developments, regulatory changes, product flows, and global trading behaviors impacting portfolio risk

Skills and Qualifications

Required Experience and Capabilities

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in petrochemical trading, energy markets, or financial risk management
• At least 7 years of direct experience in commodity market risk or front-office risk analytics/trading
• Demonstrated ability to explain complex risk concepts to senior executives and trading leadership
• Strong understanding of refined product markets
• Deep understanding of derivatives, hedging instruments, and advanced risk measurement techniques
• Experience modeling scenarios involving risk, uncertainty, and decision analysis
• Proven success leading, managing and developing diverse global teams
• Strong financial analysis skills and ability to evaluate energy transactions and structures
• High attention to detail with strong process discipline and operational rigor
• Experience with major ETRM platforms (Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, or similar)
• Familiarity with trade capture, scheduling, and nomination workflows
• Strong leadership presence, communication ability, and effective engagement in discussions with senior management

Attributes

• Risk Management and commercial acumen and the ability to connect risk insights to trading strategy
• Strong executive presence with the capability to influence decisions across trading and risk
• Balanced mindset that supports opportunity recognition while maintaining disciplined risk boundaries
• Ability to remain calm, credible, and decisive during periods of market stress
• Commitment to transparency, integrity, and thoughtful challenge

Preferred Academic Background

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Advanced degree, MBA, CFA, or PhD preferred

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.

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