Trading Operations Analyst – Power

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Analyst supporting North America Power team with market analysis, trading support, and cost reporting. Focused on data organization and electricity cost analysis across multiple regions.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Ohio, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Spark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support power supply planning for refinery and industrial electricity needs across North America
Support the Power Book Lead and trading team with daily tracking of power positions, market exposure, refinery electricity costs, and related commercial activity
Support trading profit and loss, supply and demand models, and position reporting by tracking daily positions and reconciling differences between Traders, Commercial Risk, Operations, Producers, Customers, and other internal groups
Track day-ahead and real-time power prices, forward curves, congestion, basis, load, generation outages, weather, natural gas prices, and other market events that may impact trading performance or refinery electricity costs
Develop and maintain commercial models, dashboards, reports, and tools that improve visibility into power market exposure, electricity costs, hedge performance, spark spreads, and trading opportunities
Collect, clean, sort, and organize large datasets from market platforms, ISO/RTO websites, utility bills, internal systems, spreadsheets, and third-party data providers
Provide analytical support for new business opportunities, trading strategies, refinery power optimization, market intelligence, and commercial strategy development
Prepare recurring market updates, position summaries, cost reports, ad-hoc analysis, and presentations for Commercial, leadership, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and other stakeholders
Interface with back office, mid-office, internal business units, and external contacts on new customer setup, trade reconciliation, settlement support, commercial activity review, market intelligence, and issue resolution.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Marine or related discipline required
Three (3) or more years of experience in Commercial, Risk, Trading Analytics, Marine, Scheduling, or Marketing required
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to organize large amounts of market, cost, and operational data
Clear and concise written communication skills
High attention to detail and strong follow-through
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple recurring tasks at the same time
Comfortable asking questions, checking assumptions, and working across commercial, operational, technical, and financial teams
Strong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, charts, and structured data tables
Experience working with large datasets and identifying errors, outliers, missing data, and inconsistencies.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401k matching program
Paid time off
Discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program
Educational reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysiscommercial modelingtrading analyticsmarket exposure trackingcost reportingdata cleaningdata organizationExcelposition reportingsupply and demand modeling

Soft Skills

analytical mindsetwritten communicationattention to detailorganizational skillsmulti-taskingcollaborationproblem-solvingquestioning assumptionsfollow-throughstakeholder engagement