Oil Market Analyst

Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Trading Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 8, 2026

Business Unit:

Trading and Supply

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

What is the role?

The Oil Market Analyst plays a critical role within STMA as a front‑facing role to support the Regional Cross Book Analyst, providing timely and integrated insights across crude and refined products to directly support commercial decision‑making. The role connects the full barrel by coordinating and promoting cross‑product discussions, ensuring analytics across crude, middle distillates, light ends, fuel oil, and chemicals are aligned to identify opportunities and emerging market dislocations. It also maintains and enhances core fundamentals databases-such as margins, maintenance schedules, and asset insights-that underpin trading signals and short‑ to medium‑term market understanding. Acting as the focal point for engagement with industrial data vendors, consultancies, and market commentators, the analyst ensures the team stays current with industry perspectives and evolving market trends. In addition, the role delivers bespoke, cross‑barrel analytical projects and deep‑dives that strengthen understanding of integrated value‑chain dynamics and help shape informed trading convictions.

What you'll be doing

• Support cross-book discussions: support CBA to manage desk interface. Attend regular desk meetings and cross-book discussions to identify analytical gaps. Work with desk analysts to frame up ideas for solutions
• Enhancing refinery outage toolkit: enhancing refinery monitoring capability by leveraging various data and sources of information such as remote sensing, ship tracking, inventory to best & timely inform refinery operating conditions.
• Deliver cross-barrel analytical work: this could be any analytical work that cover cross barrels and even beyond oil market. One example is building a model that would represent the liquid burning profile in Saudi Arabia in short-medium term considering new development across oil, natural gas and power sectors.
• Support STMA market outlook development: Provide support to development of Shell Baselines for oil demand, liquid supply, operable asset capacities, trade flows and resulting market tensions as required under wider market research Initiatives.

What you bring

• The candidate must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis
• Bachelor's degree in economics or engineering required
• 2 or more years of working in a trading environment
• Good refining and chemical knowledge (value chain, key processes and product yield, refinery margins, optimization, crude diet and crude valuation etc)
• Basic understanding of supply-demand balances and the building blocks
• Skilled with SQL and Python, proficient in working with API and Power Query in terms of data collection, cleaning and analysis
• Basic Visualization & Dashboarding Tools
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate analytical insights into trader-relevant outcomes
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities, balancing detailed execution with strategic alignment
• High attention to detail with a bias toward action and continuous improvement
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust across teams

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $86,000 - $128,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives. For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays. Additional information on Shell's US benefit programs can be found at

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase - our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here

Shell in The United States

Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years, leading the sector in energy, petrochemicals and refined products. Today, we provide millions of Americans with the energy needed to heat and cool their homes and power the economy.

We operate in all 50 states, from our Deep Water platforms in the Gulf of America to the Pennsylvania Chemicals complex and our miles of pipelines throughout the US.

We reach our customers through our 13,000 branded retail stations, and we are number 1 in gasoline sales. We also own the #1 brand of motor oil in the U.S. - Pennzoil® - made from natural gas.

We are excited to play a key role in the move to net carbon emissions while providing the oil and gas needed by society for many decades to come

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