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Senior Managing Director, North American Trading

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Senior Managing Director, North American Trading

Location: Houston, Texas, United States

Uniper seeks a Senior Managing Director, North American Trading, 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

Manage a team of physical traders, optimizers and schedulers

Responsible for profitability & sustainability of US Trading business and LNG Support for SE

Responsible for aggregating and profitability of entire US & Canadian storage portfolio

With Origination team, develop strategy to broaden portfolio into new geographies and expand in current regions

Oversee connectivity of natural gas grid NA wide

Co-ordinate Uniper LNG relationship within the UCGNA Gulf-Texas Team

Extend LNG gateway to incorporate new supply regions: Waha, Permian, Utica, Marcellus & WCSB

Co-ordinate with Origination team to build asset infrastructure

Deploy Uniper VaR to financially & physically trade assets and proprietary positions

Your profile

Bachelor level University/College is preferred.

10 years’ minimum of Energy Experience

Ability to manage a large team of schedulers, traders and originators across a large geography.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Strong understanding of futures, options, and other structured products.

Strong agility to manage multiple tasks and absorb new market intelligence.

Interpersonal skills are paramount to this success. Very involved directly with customers.

Initiative is key as we are building a business.

Job ID:

89634

Location:

Houston, United States

Type of contract:

Unlimited

Working model:

Full-time

Start date:

immediately

Application deadline:

28/11/2026

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.

  • Car

    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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