Job Details

Do something that means something at Williams. This isnt just a job - its 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, youll 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

Responsible for collecting and analyzing data from various sources to develop a market viewpoint for project?specific tasks. Uses data to improve the commercial, business development, originator team, senior management and executive leaderships ability to make timely and quality business decisions. Provides market intelligence and analysis to the commercial or business development teams and supports the education and awareness of market trends. Supports the annual strategy process with market analysis on industry trends and evaluation of geographies/products/services of interest. Develops relationships with internal and external market experts.