Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager (Freight)

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Position Summary

The Fundamental Trading Analytics Manager leads a team of analysts responsible for generating deep market insight and analytical tools that inform, complement, and enhance trading strategies across freight markets. This role is pivotal in providing market fundamentals expertise to support trading, origination, and optimization decisions. This position drives the generation of actionable insights to create commercial value and margin capture across MPC’s value chain. The manager ensures alignment between business objectives, analytics capabilities, and cross-functional needs. This role champions a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and mentor a team of fundamental analysts focused on freight markets.

- Translate commercial objectives into clear analytical roadmaps, prioritizing analysis and projects based on value, feasibility, and business impact.

- Partner with trading, origination, and other internal teams to identify opportunities for analytical innovation.

- Oversee the development of high-quality supply/demand balances, models, and analytics across time and geography.

- Drive timely insights into market dislocations, arbitrage opportunities, pricing drivers, and inter-regional pricing relationships.

- Collaborate with commercial teams to develop anticipatory market assessments and forward-looking trends.

- Support trade idea generation, risk assessment, and valuation for physical moves, storage plays, blending strategies, and optionality.

- Embed analytics as a core enabler of value creation within trading and physical supply decisions.

- Ensure work products are transparent, well-documented, validated, and aligned with the needs of the business.

Education and Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Energy Markets, or a related field.

- Eight (8) years of fundamental market analysis or related experience.

- Experience managing or mentoring analysts and driving cross-functional projects.

Skills

- Familiarity with scenario analysis, optimization, or time-series forecasting techniques.

- Strong commercial intuition and ability to translate analytics into trade-relevant insight.

- Curiosity-driven approach to understanding complex market structures.

- Ability to manage ambiguity and quickly pivot analytical focus during volatile market periods.

- Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex ideas into business outcomes.

- Collaborative mindset with commercial and technical teams.

Location: Houston, TX

Relocation: Available

Estimated Travel: <10%

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Location:

Houston, Texas

Additional locations:

Job Requisition ID:

00019740

Location Address:

500 Dallas St Ste 2900

Education:

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at

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.The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

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We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.