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Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours!
The Market Intelligence Consultant - Sequent will guide our market intelligence and forecasts with a detailed understanding of our business and multiple market factors that influence commodity pricing. This role will develop and lead extensive short, medium, and long term supply and demand fundamental forecasts for key markets. This role will also use aggregated information to develop our commodity pricing point-of-view (POV), fundamental supply and demand proprietary view (PV), and present outlooks. The Consultant will be a liaison with upper management on market intelligence, creation of our PV and POV, and other critical ad hoc analysis. Partnering with commercial and FP&A teams to provide critical and timely long range plan analysis and forming views that impact existing business and strategic business opportunities are keys to success.
Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Informs business decisions for natural gas traders with market intelligence and research with a focus on supply and demand analysis, pricing forecasts, competitive intelligence, enterprise strategy and risk analyses
- Utilizes expertise with third-party market data to compile research and analysis to support regional natural gas trading strategy development
- Develops and updates supply/demand and price/basis reports to support daily/forward natural gas trading strategies
- Identifies natural gas market trends or risks before widespread knowledge or acceptance from consultants or competitors
- Supports gas trading Asset Management team with near-term and long-term market fundamental assessments for pipeline and storage capacity decisions
- Proactively screens market news such as customer and competitor announcements and earnings calls to provide quick summaries and headlines to natural gas traders
- Present market fundamental perspective to external stakeholders to support client relationships
- Builds strong foundation with natural gas trading team providing on the ground market knowledge and data analysis
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering; a minimum of eight (8) years of related experience
- Preferred: Master's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering; a minimum of twelve (12) years of experience
Other Requirements:
- Demonstrates outstanding organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
- Possesses a detailed understanding of market factors that influence commodity pricing, supply, demand, seasonality, regulations, and international trade
- Prior experience in advising and presenting to executives, strong communication skills, adherence to deadlines, and ability to manage a project team
- Depth and breadth of understanding of the hydrocarbon industry
- Experience and comfort in working with higher-level management
- Broad knowledge of our business, customers and competitors
- Experience in giving presentations as an expert in a field of business
- Project economics or supply/demand modeling experience
- Experience in developing a market outlook for natural gas fundamentals and pricing
About Tulsa:
Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.
Tulsa is known as the Mother of "The Mother Road" - Route 66, and boasts impressive art deco architecture, the #1 city park in the U.S. (The Gathering Place) and is a great venue for live music. It's an easy place to get in and out of, with more than 20 non-stop flight destinations offered at Tulsa International Airport. Tulsa is listed on CNN Travel's best destinations to visit in 2022!
Tulsa is not only a great place to live, but it's affordable. According to the 2019 Economic Report from Tulsa's Future, the cost of living is 8 percent below the U.S. average. There is no place like T-Town. Check out visittulsa.com to learn more!
Why Choose Williams?
We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire. With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!
- Competitive compensation
- Annual incentive program
- Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles
- Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles
- 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
- A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
- Wellness Program with annual rewards
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Robust employee learning and development
- High internal mobility (we promote from within)
- Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)
- Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
- Domestic partner benefits
- Educational reimbursement
- Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
- Employee resource groups
- Employee assistance programs
- Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
- Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes
Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit https://www.williams.com/careers/total-rewards/.
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What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel.
We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future.
Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
