Trading Analyst

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What’s the role

As a Trading Analyst (internally referred to as X-Book/Cross Book Analyst), you will support several areas of work across multiple Products, reporting to the regional Cross-Book RTL. You will be part of Shell’s Trading & Supply (T&S) Products business, which focuses on maximizing sustainable value creation in global oil products markets through effective HSSE performance, robust controls, and disciplined management of regulated business activities. The T&S business spans the entire value chain – from sourcing fuel components and products from equity refineries and third parties to supplying Shell’s Marketing businesses, serving external counterparties, and supporting global proprietary trading activities.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop a strong understanding of trading and commercial decision-making. It requires strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and the confidence to challenge conventional thinking. You will work with diverse stakeholders across different organizational levels, contribute to solving complex global business challenges, and support cross-book decision-making to maximize value for Shell. Success in this role will depend on your ability to communicate effectively, influence others, and drive new ways of thinking to achieve shared business goals.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain inland supply and demand (S&D) balances across all product markets.

• Identify the marginal regional supply sources and market drivers that influence local pricing dynamics.

• Generate insights and visualizations to support optimal cross-product and cross-book decision-making.

• Build and maintain robust S&D balances for European inland markets, enhancing the analytical capabilities of the Cross-Book team.

• Contribute to the development of the global S&D platform that supports Products Trading.

• Collaborate closely with desk analysts to ensure alignment and consistency of S&D balances across product books.

• Run and enhance data models (e.g., yield and demand models), gather and analyze market data from agencies and industry sources, and support S&D analysis through activities such as ship-tracking and market flow analysis, while providing guidance to junior analysts.

• Drive the structural research agenda for European inland markets, linking longer-term market trends with short-term trading insights to support value-focused decision-making.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing and analyzing large volumes of continuously evolving data in real time.

• Previous experience within a commodity trading house, whether in front-, middle-, or back-office functions, is an advantage.

• Strong coding and programming skills, preferably in Python.

• Highly numerate with outstanding analytical and problem-solving capabilities, combined with a proactive and self-driven mindset.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear and actionable insights.

• Natural curiosity and a passion for investigating markets, connecting information from multiple sources, and building fact-based narratives that drive commercial decisions.

• A strong desire to operate at the intersection of technical analysis and stakeholder engagement.

• Ability to perform effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities.

• Commercially minded, with a strong focus on value creation and profitability.

• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a global organization and across geographically dispersed teams.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Note: As part of your application, please submit a motivation letter along with your resume. The motivation letter should outline your reasons for applying to this position and how your skills and experiences align with the job requirements. This will help us better understand your interest in the role and your suitability for the position.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in The Netherlands

The Netherlands is one of the two founding countries of the company. Here 9,380 employees (March 2024) of more than 100 nationalities jointly work to provide the country with energy for today, for tomorrow and for you.

Energy for today

The refinery at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam (Pernis) - Europe’s largest - is facing a cleaner future with less carbon emissions. Chemicals Park Moerdijk is transitioning to a circular future. Shell operates multiple wind and solar farms in the Netherlands. Both onshore and offshore, Shell is exploring for and producing oil and gas via the Nederlandsche Aardolie Maatschappij, NAM (50% Shell, 50% ExxonMobil). Shell is the market leader in transport fuels. Dutch motorists take 3 billion litres of fuel from 570 Shell retail stations (May 2024) annually, while thousands of Shell's own fast EV charge points and Shell Ubitricity normal charge points are being installed as we speak.

Energy for tomorrow

At the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA), research is conducted into low CO2 energy technologies and sustainable solutions for energy and chemicals. Near Rotterdam Shell builds Europe's biggest green hydrogen plant of the continent. From Amsterdam and The Hague, Shell Nederland leads the transition of the corporation to a more sustainable future, with 6.5 billion euros invested in solar panels, wind farms, green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, EV charging and other groundbreaking solutions for the future.

Energy for you

Even after the company HQ moved to London in January 2022, Shell's commitment to the Netherlands remains very strong. The Hague still housing the headquarters of three of Shell's business divisions, and Rotterdam stays a key trading, marketing and sales hub for Shell products. Combined Shell in the Netherlands works to bring its wide range of energy products as close as possible to you as an energy consumer. This includes a Shell Impact Fund to make the energy transition closer to people with financial challenges, this includes EV chargers on the corner of your street via our daughter company Ubitricity and this includes keeping the country warm in winter with Liquid Natural Gas.

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