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Senior Gulf Physical Gas Trader

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Senior Gulf Physical Gas Trader

Location: Houston, Texas, United States

Uniper seeks a Senior Gulf Physical Gas Trader to join its North American team

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are proactively transforming the world of energy while at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams, and our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as proactively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

Lead physical natural gas trading across the Gulf Coast/Texas region, managing transportation, storage, and regional asset positions. Pipes include but not limited to GSPL, TGP, TETCO, Transco, TGT, NGPL, FGT, and Texas intrastates.

Build and expand a physical gas portfolio through customer engagement, asset development, and strategic market participation.

Coordinate cross‑region trading strategies with Midwest/Midcon and NE/Mid‑Atlantic teams to capture inter‑regional arbitrage and flow optimization opportunities.

Analyze market fundamentals including supply/demand trends, price behavior, transportation constraints, and regional dynamics to inform trading decisions.

Develop and execute strategies to capitalize on market dislocations, basis movements, and NYMEX spread opportunities.

Trade cash and forward markets to meet contractual obligations with suppliers, pipelines, and end‑use customers.

Support and lead scheduling team on all daily physical movements, actualizations, and communication supporting decisions, transactions, and agreements.

Optimize transportation and storage assets to maximize margin while managing operational and market risk.

Collaborate with origination to structure and execute transactions such as AMAs, capacity deals, and cross‑commodity arrangements.

Partner with analysts and traders to develop shared views on fixed price, NYMEX spreads, and regional basis markets.

Solicit bids/offers and negotiate physical gas purchase and sale transactions with counterparties.

Ensure accurate trade capture in the ETRM system to maintain daily P&L, exposure, and position integrity.

Support business continuity planning to ensure operational reliability of the Gulf Coast trading desk.

Maintain full compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and risk management frameworks

Your profile

Four-year degree is required, preferably in finance or accounting or some technical related field.

Minimum of 7 years+ of experience working in physical natural gas in a trading/asset optimization role or transportation/storage trading role

Financial Hedging/Position construction

Solid understanding of natural gas fundamentals, expert knowledge of interstate and intrastate pipeline infrastructure, production and storage assets in Texas and Gulf Coast

Understanding of MTM accounting, value at risk, a sound understanding of risk bifurcation and risk exposures generated from physical and financial gas trade types

Leadership skills, Team player qualities, entrepreneurial thinking, strong communicational skills

Job ID:

89212

Location:

Houston, United States

Type of contract:

Unlimited

Working model:

Full-time, Unlimited

Start date:

immediately

Application deadline:

29/07/2026

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail and we will get back to you:

career@uniper.energy

What makes Uniper stand out as an employer

  • Training

    Further education

    With a mix of digital and analog learning formats and topic-specific communities, we promote your personal and profossional development and lifelong learning.

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    Coachings and Mentoring

    Experienced specialists and managers are happy to support you in strengthening your skills and advancing your career development.

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    Open feedback culture

    Performance discussions, 360-degree feedback and employee surveys will help you and the company move forward, strengthen our collaboration and give you room to contribute your ideas.

  • Health

    Health care

    Safety and well-being are our top priorities. That's why we offer you regular free preventive medical checkups as well as a variety of learning impulses on occupational safety, health and well-being, and support programs.

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    Sport and Fitness

    With our online exercise courses, sponsorship of your participation costs in central sports events and a large sports community, we offer you a healthy working environment.

  • Canteen

    Healthy nutrition

    You can enjoy a wide range of healthy and balanced meals in our canteen. In addition, you can participate in nutrition programs.

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    Insurance and coverage

    We take care of you and offer you a wide range of coverage beyond the legal requirements with our company pension plan, accident insurance, company health insurance and continued salary payments in the event of illness.

  • Money

    Financial benefits

    We pay capital-forming benefits and offer you a wide range of financial benefits through our corporate benefits program

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    Work Life Balance

    We support you in balancing your private and professional life through flexible working time models, job sharing, sabbaticals and extensive offers in the area of child care and nursing.

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    Free parking spaces

    We provide you with free parking spaces.

The benefits may vary slightly depending on location and role. You can find a complete overview of the benefits here:Benefits
About Uniper
Diversity

Transforming energy security through expertise and commitment

Uniper is a European energy company with a global reach that makes a decisive contribution to security of supply and energy transformation.  We work in very diverse teams and offer our employees as much flexibility as is possible.

Equity, mutual appreciation and respect are the core of our corporate culture. At our company you will have the opportunity to shape new technologies, work on solutions for a modern and future-oriented energy supply and actively design change processes.

Application process

Step 1 - Online application

Step 1

Online application

Have you found a suitable job posting? Then you can apply online right here. The application process is very simple and only takes a few minutes. Once we have received your application successfully, you will receive confirmation by e-mail immediately afterwards.

Your questions. Our answers.

Do you have any questions?

Do you have any questions?

Our recruiting team will be happy to assist you via email. Please submit your application exclusively through our online portal – unfortunately, we cannot consider applications sent by email. As long as the position is listed on our careers page, we look forward to your interest and application!

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