Energy Trader

Building a business from their passion for energy markets. That’s what our founders did in 2005 and that’s still what they do today, supported by an international team of energy experts who help spread this passion all over the world. What does our team bring to the table? A set of highly specialized consultancy services: quality energy risk management, procurement, financial controlling, sustainability, and data management solutions based on the most in-depth knowledge of energy procurement that you can find. At E&C Consultants, energy buying isn’t just a branch of our business - it’s in our DNA._

E&C advises a portfolio of large international companies on their risk management for buying electricity and natural gas. Every day, these customers have to take decisions on whether they will fix, not fix or unfix forward natural gas and electricity prices. E&C sets up a risk management strategy for these clients and gives pro-active advice on those hedging decisions. We are searching for an **energy trader** to enforce our team. The** energy trader** plays a **key role in analysing the markets and giving advice to clients on fixing and unfixing decisions.**

**What will you do?**
- Every day you will make an analysis of the global energy markets and assess what they mean for our clients.
- Our ePoint system generates a list of possible hedge recommendations to clients.
- You run through this list and decide whether to make the recommendations or not.
- You execute these recommendations using our hedge recommendation tool that generates messages for clients.
- You comment market evolutions and recommendations to clients and consultants on the phone.
- For some clients, you will assist them in the administrative execution of their decisions to fix or unfix.
- You will assist clients that receive OTC price quotes to evaluate them and negotiate with suppliers to obtain better prices.
- You will track all your activity in our ePoint system so that our Data Reporting Specialists can collect and update a clients’ information in our system.
- You execute all these activities in close collaboration with our consultants.
- On days with low hedging activity, you will make fundamental analysis of energy markets that results in text material that can be used in market reports, white papers, blog articles, video’s, podcasts, etc.

**What makes you a perfect match?**

Expertise is more easy to acquire than attitude. Therefore, at E&C we hire personalities, not just CV’s. There will be a match if:

- You have a Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, energy, or business management
- C1 level in English
- You reside in 1 of the European countries where we have an entity - see on our website for more info
- Experience in the energy market is a plus but we are providing full internal training on energy and our way of working upon arrival
- A keen interest in the energy markets is key though
- The ups and downs of markets give you a kick instead of paralysing you.
- You are well organized, used to prioritize tasks in order of importance and urgency
- You take accountability for the ins and outs beyond your own role; you can work independently, set goals for yourself and others and give substance to them.
- You dare to take decisions, act adequately and quickly, and are not afraid of taking (calculated) risks to obtain a certain advantage.
- You are proficient at analysing data and synthetizing the information for clients and colleagues
- Proficient in MS Office

**What do we offer you?**
- Long-term full-time contract
- Modern offices available to co-work with your team members (consultants, financial analysts and data-analysts)
- Very flexible hybrid/remote work mode possible after initial onboarding in the office
- Challenging and interesting environment in the continuously evolving energy sector
- Working with large international clients
- International environment with more than 25 nationalities and English as main working language
- Very flat company structure with agile way of working, offering autonomy and empowerment from day 1
- Intensive onboarding procedure with a buddy and an internal training program
- Regular discussions on your role(s) and competencies with your team leader, allow you to define a challenging career path that makes the best use of your talents and interests
- A competitive salary, with a laptop and smartphone for professional and private use

**Curious to hear more?