Mgr Strategy & Market Intelligence

Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s 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 Mgr Strategy & Market Intelligence will lead a team in market intelligence and forecasts with a detailed understanding of our business and multiple market factors that influence commodity pricing. This role will supervise a team that develops extensive short, medium, and long term supply and demand fundamental forecasts for key markets: the use of aggregated information to develop our commodity pricing point-of-view (POV), fundamental supply and demand proprietary view (PV), and present outlooks. The Manager will be a liaison to senior leadership on market intelligence, creation of our PV and POV, and other critical ad hoc analysis. Partnering with our 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, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.

Responsibilities/Expectations:

• Applies expertise and research to create detailed supply/demand and pricing fundamental analysis forecasts.
• Identifies trends or risks before widespread knowledge or acceptance from consultants or competitors
• Leads a team to provide updated analysis on specific market indicators that will affect our business outlook, in support of the annual strategic process
• Contributes to tactical and strategic market intelligence efforts with focus on supply and demand analysis, project and competitive intelligence, enterprise strategy, and risk analyses
• Serves as a key contributor for the commodity pricing point of view (POV) process for a variety of key indicators
• Drives the POV creation by extrapolating important trends from gathered market intelligence data and proposing forecasts that take into account the dynamic marketplace
• Serves as an integrated analyst for our commercial and business development teams to develop competitor analysis, takeaway capacity, supply/demand propriety view, and other ad hoc analysis
• Leads a team of analysts responsible for our fundamental Proprietary View, Commodity Point of View and Strategy Process
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Education/Years of Experience:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering; a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience
• Preferred: Master's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering; a minimum of fifteen (15) years of related 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
  
  

, The Strategy and Market Intelligence Manager role will be the leader of a team of experts in Williams' market intelligence and forecasts with a thorough understanding of Williams' business and multiple market factors that influence commodity pricing (supply and demand, seasonality, regulations, international trade, etc.). This role will oversee the team that develops extensive short, medium and long term supply and demand fundamental forecasts for key markets; the use of aggregated information to develop Williams' commodity pricing point-of-view (POV) and fundamental supply and deaman proprietary view (PV) and present outlooks. This role will be a liaison to senior leadership on market intelligence, creation of our PV and POV, and other critical ad hoc analysis. This person will work in partnership with our commercial and FP&A teams to provide critical and timely long range plan analysis and form views that impact existing business and strategic business opportunities.