Senior Analyst, Markets

Description

Located out of our Calgary office and reporting into the Supervisor, Markets & Strategic Initiatives, the Senior Analyst, Markets (Crude, NGL & Pet-Chems, Natural Gas) will play a critical role in shaping the organization’s understanding of North American energy markets.

In this position, you will develop market fundamentals, pricing, and forecasting models that support trading, marketing, risk management, and strategic decision-making across crude oil, natural gas, NGLs, and petrochemicals. Working closely with traders, commercial teams, and business leaders, you will transform complex market data into actionable insights, helping to identify opportunities, anticipate market shifts, and drive value in a dynamic and fast-paced energy environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly analytical professional who is passionate about energy markets, commercial strategy, and delivering impactful market intelligence.

Key Activities and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain supply, demand, and pricing models across natural gas, NGLs & Pet-Chems, and crude oil to support commercial and strategic decision making.
• Provide real time market analysis and trading support to inform day to day commercial activities.
• Integrate third party market data and proprietary intelligence into dashboards, reports, and analytical tools.
• Collaborate closely with traders, marketers, and schedulers to ensure analytics align with commercial and operational needs.
• Support the development of Inter Pipeline’s in-house view by delivering timely short term market insights and scenario analysis.
• Design and develop tools to automate the dissemination of market intelligence across the organization.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to support trading, marketing, and commercial decisions.
• Analyze infrastructure developments, producer behavior, regulatory trends, and regional supply/demand dynamics to anticipate market shifts.
• Collaborate with Gas, NGL, and Crude teams to align market views with commercial positioning and execution.
• Support the annual strategy planning cycle, including Board materials, leadership offsites, and long range planning inputs.
• Provide insights to support hedging strategies, cash flow forecasting, and risk management activities.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to align market views with broader commercial and strategic priorities.
• Develop forecasting models, scenario analyses, and market outlook tools to support near and medium term planning.
• Respond to ad hoc analytical requests from trading, operations, and finance teams.
• Support short term financial trading analytics and commercial decision support.
• Communicate complex market insights clearly and tailor messaging to different audiences across the organization.
• Demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.

Education, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Commerce, Engineering, or a related discipline - an advanced education such as a CFA or MBA (completed or in progress) is considered an asset.
• 3+ years of experience in energy trading, market fundamentals, or commercial roles within the energy sector, with a demonstrated ability to translate market insight into commercial value.
• Experience developing short term supply / demand and pricing models across commodities, including natural gas, NGLs, and crude oil, with a focus on decision support and business impact.
• Exposure to trading environments, with a solid understanding of hedging strategies, risk management principles, and cash flow forecasting, and the ability to apply these concepts to real world commercial outcomes.
• Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities, with proficiency in Excel; with a preference for experience using Python, SQL, AI, or similar tools to solve complex problems and automaterepeatable analyses.
• Experience leveraging data visualization and automation platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to distill complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Excellent research, financial modeling, and presentation skills, coupled with strong critical thinking abilities to challenge assumptions, identify key drivers, and communicate insights effectively.
• Experience working with third party data providers (e.g., Wood Mackenzie, S&P Global, Enervus, Rystad, Energy Aspects, GeoScout, XI) and integrating external data into models and dashboards to enhance analytical rigor.
• Strong understanding of North American energy markets and infrastructure, with depth in WCSB fundamentals and global energy markets, including commodity pricing, quantitative / statistical modeling, and natural gas, NGL, and crude market dynamics.
• Demonstrated learning agility and intellectual curiosity, with the ability to quickly absorb new information, interpret short term market drivers (e.g., weather, storage, outages, geopolitical events), and convert insights into value added analysis and recommendations.

Hours

Monday – Friday, 40 hour per week

Inter Pipeline recognizes the importance of properly rewarding our employees by offering attractive employee benefits. Please visit our “working with us” page to learn about the compensation and benefits offerings.

As this position is identified as security sensitive, employment of a final candidate will be conditional upon completion of a criminal background check assessment with satisfactory results.

While diversity is a fact, inclusion is the act of recognizing the value of our differences and leveraging them for the betterment of our organization. At Inter Pipeline, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that values, represents, and supports the communities in which we work. We are committed to maintaining a respectful workplace and we are building a culture that supports the diverse needs of our employees. We welcome applications from all individuals including those who are Indigenous, racialized, of varied abilities and ethnicities, members of gender and sexually diverse communities, as well as with any other dimension of diversity.