Senior long-term oil analyst

At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.   Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 850 experts from 69 countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.   About the Role   As a Senior Long-Term Oil Analyst, you will own Kpler’s strategic multi-decade outlook for crude oil, refined products, and alternative liquid fuels within the evolving global energy system. Bridging macro-economic forecasting and physical trade flows, you will anchor long-term supply, demand, and transition scenarios directly into Kpler’s proprietary cargo-level intelligence. In this high-visibility research role, your insights and published analysis will guide executive decision-makers, commercial traders, and investors navigating structural market transformations, capital allocation, and decarbonization pathways. Key Responsibilities • Lead long-term market research and scenario modeling: Spearhead Kpler's multi-decade (5 to 25+ year) research coverage and fundamental supply, demand, and trade scenarios for crude oil, refined products, NGLs, and low-carbon fuels. • Analyze structural market drivers and transition pathways: Deliver in-depth research on upstream capital investment, OPEC+ and non-OPEC capacity shifts, refinery configuration trends, transport electrification, and evolving environmental policies. • Anchor macro projections in granular trade flows: Leverage Kpler’s proprietary cargo-level tracking to translate multi-decade macro perspectives into actionable implications for regional balances, trade routes, refining margins, and midstream infrastructure. • Author authoritative research publications: Produce regular, high-impact outlook publications, strategic research notes, and thematic market commentary under Kpler’s Insights banner, clearly framing key assumptions and structural uncertainties. • Synthesize cross-commodity dynamics: Collaborate with Kpler’s Gas, LNG, and Power research analysts to ensure cohesive, system-wide market assumptions, while benchmarking models against international agencies such as the IEA, EIA, and OPEC. • Serve as a trusted market authority: Represent Kpler’s research in executive client briefings, commercial advisory sessions, industry webinars, and specialist media engagements. Experience & Background Essential: • 5+ years of prior experience in energy market analysis, energy modelling or strategy, with a focus on oil and liquids markets • Proven experience building and maintaining supply and demand or scenario models, including a good understanding of the drivers of long-term outlooks • Strong understanding of the oil and refined products value chain and of energy transition dynamics • Experience in producing independent market analysis and insights • Skilled at conducting complex analyses across multiple datasets using advanced data analytics tools • Excellent verbal and written communication skills Desirable: • Knowledge of gas, LNG, power or low-carbon fuels and how they interact with liquids markets • Previous experience using Kpler data or other cargo tracking tools • Experience with SQL, Python, R, or other data science tools We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfaction and turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?   We make things happen We act decisively and with purpose, going the extra mile.   We build
together We foster relationships and develop creative solutions to address market challenges.   We are here to help We are accessible and supportive to colleagues and clients with a friendly approach.     Our People Pledge   Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.   Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.       By applying, I confirm that I have read and accept the Staff Privacy Notice