Natural Gas Market Research Advisor II

Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future   The  Natural Gas Market Research Advisor II  is a high impact front office role that is integral to the success of the Natural Gas trading team at Phillips 66. The Natural Gas Market Research Advisor provides market fundamentals, short/medium term supply/demand analysis, and trader support for the Natural Gas supply and trading function primarily in North America but linked to the wider global trading team. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the lead market strategists, regional analysts and trading teams to develop and maintain models and balances that will create short-term tradable insights and longer-term strategic insights.   What You’ll Do

Communicate natural gas supply demand fundamentals and market insights as part of regular balance meetings and in larger forums e.g. cross commodity meetings or global trading meetings. Understand key trading opportunities for the Natural Gas trading team and work to suggest/evaluate additional analysis to ensure all aspects of an opportunity are understood.  Development and maintenance of supply and demand models.  This will involve working closely with trading to understand the market and trends, incorporate downtime, seasonal cycles, macroeconomic variables, and utilize pipeline flow, storage, and import/export data to ensure the models are accurate and accepted by trading. Identify market anomalies and communicate to trading on what physical market and forward market changes might occur.  Integrate Natural Gas balances into related trading bench supply and demand balances, including NGLs and other related commodity balances. Build out balances for key natural gas supply and demand regions, pipeline flows, storage facilities, and LNG flows that will ultimately be able to show balance trajectories at the regional level as well as at the key hub and storage level. Draw on fundamental and technical data as appropriate to develop forward view predictive models. Work with Commercial Data Science to create econometric analysis and models. Stay abreast of external market analyst views and incorporate these views and analysis into internal fundamental analysis to create a competitive edge vs. external views. Maintain and improve existing arbitrage models. Share knowledge freely and improve peer group understanding of own niche markets. Drive improvement of existing forecast models. Lead ad-hoc projects and analysis around market fundamentals (including infrastructure changes) to support trade ideas.

What You’ll Bring - Required

Legally authorized to work in the United States High School Diploma or GED equivalent 1 or more years of commercial/trading or related experience in the energy industry Exposure to advanced quantitative platforms e.g. Python, Claude code, Dataiku, etc. Intermediate or greater proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

What Makes You Stand Out - Preferred

Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, finance, economics, or agriculture Capable of gaining consensus and trust across multiple functional areas within and external to Commercial to build a common vision and direction Ability to code in Visual Basic, Python, and/or R Ability to incorporate AI and AI prompting into daily analysis Ability to synthesize data into useful information, and articulate it in an easy-to-understand format Proactive in problem identification and resolution, can provide creative solutions to complex issues Experience in DataBricks, SQL, and Power BI Experience in Machine Learning Knowledge of Commercial trading businesses Understanding of broader commodity markets (Crude, Gasoline, Distillates, NGLs) Knowledge of global commodity trading Refining/petrochemical knowledge Proficiency with statistical modeling software, Access, or other database software, and economic model development

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