Where you fit in
The Senior Continental Power Trader plays a key role in the UK/Continental Power Trading Desk, as a senior power trader across the CWE markets.
The UK/Continental Power Trading team itself, part of Shell Energy Europe & Africa’s (SE-EA) European Power Trading team, is responsible for proprietary trading and the management of a growing portfolio comprising customer demand, renewable, batteries, and thermal. The team manages exposures down the curve through to delivery.
What’s the role?
Main opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities include:
* Construct trading strategies, take positions, and manage exposures from both traded strategies and across the asset portfolio based on analysis of fundamental, weather, and technical market conditions across multiple markets
o Ability to spot distortions between geographies, tenors, and type.
o Understand and communicate risks being taken.
* Support the development of the desk’s capabilities, portfolio, and fundamental model.
* Work with external (and internal) customers alongside business development to bring in new structures to the book or deal types to help optimize existing exposures.
* Stay on top of the latest regulatory and market developments.
* Observe and strictly comply with all regulatory guidelines and within mandated authorities.
* Coach and educate junior colleagues.
What we need from you
We are keen to hear from experienced trading professionals and likely to be a strong contender if you have hands-on experience in the following:
* Significant years in power curve trading experience, with focus on the European Markets (especially Germany and Netherlands), with a proven track record.
* Established network with other market participants and industry players.
* Deep understanding of physical power markets, ideally with previous experience in managing assets (thermal and renewable).
* Strong grasp of market and weather fundamentals, and willingness to work with the fundamental team to drive model development.
If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and life experiences to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.
Flexible working
We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).
About Shell Energy Europe & Africa (SE-EA)
SE-EA is part of the Shell Trading & Supply organization with a focus on European gas and power markets. As such, SE-EA trades natural gas, power, green power certificates, and voluntary/compliance-driven environmental products with counterparties including major resource holders of gas, upstream producers, investment banks, trading houses, utilities, power generators, large as well as up-and-coming retail gas and power marketing companies, regional and local gas and power distribution companies, gas storage operators, and large industrial and commercial gas and power users.
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