Job Description

Where you fit in The role is as a Senior Environmental Products Trader within the Global Environmental Products Trading Business (EPTB) based in Singapore. You will be expected to work alongside colleagues to build a profitable trade book, seeking ou Where you fit in The role is as a Senior Environmental Products Trader within the Global Environmental Products Trading Business (EPTB) based in Singapore. You will be expected to work alongside colleagues to build a profitable trade book, seeking out exposures that add structure, build flow and embed optionality across the short and medium term. You will be working in a rapidly evolving business area, often in challenging regulatory and legal environments, requiring you to be innovative and capable of building deep commercial relationships with customers and counterparties. Shell Energy Trading is an industry leader and the key face to the market for Integrated Gas, providing more and cleaner energy across a global portfolio of LNG, gas, power and environmental products to meet our suppliers' and customers' current and future energy needs. Shell Energy is positioned to play a significant role at the heart of Shell's Energy Transition. Through the growth of our gas, LNG, power and environmental products businesses, we are supporting our customers' desire for more and cleaner energy. Shell Energy's Ambition is to be the Leading Global Provider of Energy Products and Services the Leader in Cleaner Energy Solutions the Most Trusted Energy Partner and a Winning Team. What's the role The Environmental Products Trading Business (EPTB) operates in environmental product markets across the globe and has the following objectives: Build Portfolios and Optimize: We leverage deep understanding of compliance and voluntary markets - and the connections between them - to capture opportunities across market mechanisms, geographies, methodologies, vintages, contract duration and type. We integrate perspectives from all demand sinks and supply sources in real time to take proprietary positions across the environmental value chain. This leads us to build portfolios that warehouse significant optionality, structure and risk, with the objective of optimizing returns. Risk Manage, Develop Structure, Take Positions: We warehouse risk - price, volume, credit, liquidity, reputation, technical, quality, operational, regulatory to name several - and pursue diversification & mitigation of these in our portfolio construction, structure development and option creation. This informs our proprietary position take, leading us to capture outright price movements from intraday through to multiple years. Manage External Relationships: We are experienced in building long lasting relationships with third parties, from ideation through to start up and into material production or offtake. We are proficient in connecting the financing, commercial terms, operations, systems and platforms that enable sustained delivery, continuously refining these in the pursuit of efficiencies and scale. Agility: We anticipate new products and opportunities, pivot quickly and build positions ahead of market evolution. As examples: adapting to new restrictions, reinventing business models, commercializing emergent technologies and interpreting regulatory changes in and across the markets we participate in. EPTB is a highly capable and creative global team with collaboration, humility and a quiet determination at the core of our culture and identity. The role will require the individual to lead by example within this community and beyond, fostering effective relationships throughout the global team and across functions within Shell Energy Trading (SET). EPTB Southeast Asia & Oceania is responsible for trading environmental products in Regulated markets of Australia and New Zealand new emerging trading schemes in South East Asia as well as originating deals in international Voluntary markets. Reporting into the Regional Team Lead for Southeast Asia & Oceania, you will primarily be responsible for meeting targets for Gross Margin, seeking out exposures that add structure, build flow and embed and manage optionality across the short and medium with an emphasis on material and sustainable contributions. Your primary focus will be to accelerate book building in markets of existing capability namely, New Zealand and Australia as well as developing secondary market trading capabilities in the International Voluntary Markets from the Asian time zone. The emphasis is on growing new, scalable and sustainable income streams. Further, you will be expected to contribute to EPTB's expansion into new products and new markets as they develop within the region, which will be within the coming few years. What we need from you We require a creative, profit focused individual with excellent analytical skills and capable of contributing to our team ethos. Working under tight deadlines and conflicting pressures, the candidate will prove able to continue delivering to an excellent standard, with clear focus on the bottom line and priorities in hand. Candidates are required to have a wide set of multidisciplinary skills including: Significant frontline trading in illiquid markets is ideal, with experience in options modelling and management particularly desirable. Strong quantitative skills, the ability to progress complex negotiations and to structure/monetise optionality are essential. Ability to build trade books, develop/structure exposures, manage price risk and monetize opportunity. Experience in trade execution, managing trading exposures and generating value from optionality essential. Knowledge of 'life-of-the-deal' process should be part of your toolkit. Conduct and professionalism in line with Shell's compliance and principles to be part of successful candidates DNA. Excellent communication, relationship building and presentation skills. To illustrate, the ability to present a compelling business case to senior management detailing the opportunity space, implementation plan, resources needed and the expected returns. Be able to build deep relationships with key stakeholders: customers, counterparties, senior leaders, exchanges and regulators. To be able to originate and structure the first deals, then 'industrialize' the process so the deals can be easily repeated in scale. This role is a challenging position with excellent development opportunities across T&S and the wider Shell group. Shell expects to play its part in contributing to the global effort to tackle climate change. This role is at the sharp edge of that challenge, requiring a confident and self-motivated individual with a strong passion for pursuing Shell's Net Carbon Footprint ambition. We are interested in attracting people to our business who share our core working values of honesty, integrity and have respect for others. We also want those who can build on our business vision, are prepared to accept accountability, and can achieve great results through teamwork Company Description Shell is one the largest foreign investors in Singapore and began operations in 1891. Today, we have more than 3,200 employees in Singapore alone. The Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site today is the largest Shell refinery in the world in terms of crude distillation capacity, which makes Singapore a key regional supply and trading centre for Shell in the East. Singapore is the largest petrochemical production and export centre in the Asia Pacific region. Shell Jurong Island (SJI) manufactures petrochemicals to meet the fast-growing demand for these products in the region. We also have one of the largest single-branded retail networks in Singapore, providing customers with a wide range of quality products and services. When you join Shell in Singapore, you can count on our commitment to help you thrive and propel your career by means of our industry-leading development programme and our available and unrivalled pool of local and global experts. Our numerous global and local skill pools as well as our diversity are key to our success and continuing innovation. An innovative place to work There's never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Join us and you'll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to shape the future - whether by investing in oil, gas, and renewable energy to meet demand, exploring new ways to store energy, or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently, everyone at Shell does their part. An inclusive place to work To power progress, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we are nurturing an inclusive environment - one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills, and reach your potential. We're creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we'll take it from there. We're closing the gender gap - whether that's through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology. We're striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application. A rewarding place to work Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice. We're huge advocates for career development. We'll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.