What’s the role 

The Retail Structurer is accountable for delivering high-quality deal design, pricing analysis, model execution, and data validation that support SES’s commercial performance and deal delivery.  

This role ensures fit for purpose deal structuring for strategic customer opportunities.  

The individual will partner with originators and ensure accurate valuation of customer opportunities, lead analytical efforts on complex deal structures, and contribute to continuous improvement of commercial strategies and methodologies. Acting as a senior member of the wider Commercial organization, the Retail Structurer provides subject-matter expertise and mentorship to junior team members while ensuring alignment with Shell’s risk, compliance, and governance standards. 

Accountabilities: 

• Lead deal valuation and structuring for Non‑Standard/Bespoke retail opportunities, including analysis of volume, shape, imbalance, and certificate risks.  

• Aid in customer negotiations. 

• Build customer‑specific commercial structures (e.g., block‑and‑index blends, multi‑site portfolios, shaped load products, first of kind pricing and risk structures).  Structures may allow for future hedging strategies or bring in a customer’s prior executed Renewable supply contracts. 

• Produce clear economics: expected P&L, sensitivities, downside exposures, and tradeable hedge requirements. 

• Ensure alignment with governance standards, LoaD principles, and deal entry requirements. 

• Improve valuation methodologies, documentation, and workflow efficiency across the structuring process.  Support system and model enhancements. Much of the learnings of this team may transition over time to implementation in the Pricing Team. 

• Building a productive commercial relationship with SENA Origination and Trading will be required. 

• Validate and maintain customer load and data inputs, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with expected usage patterns throughout the pricing cycle.  

• Identify, diagnose, and resolve data-related issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve data quality and reduce operational risk.  

• Maintain customer-specific pricing and valuation data within SES reporting and tracking systems, ensuring high-quality documentation and auditability.  

• Work collaboratively with Sales, Risk, Portfolio Management, and Operations to resolve deal modelling-related issues, support commercial decisions, and ensure consistency in assumptions.  

• Serve as a subject-matter expert on complex and non-standard pricing, providing advanced analytical support, risk assessment, and structuring guidance for high-impact commercial opportunities.  

• Lead and contribute to strategic projects, including model redesigns, process automation, and multi-market pricing initiatives that improve accuracy, efficiency, and commercial competitiveness.  

• Mentor and coach junior Analysts, providing guidance on data validation, analytical techniques, pricing models, and best practices to strengthen team capability.  

What you bring  

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance or operations, Master’s degree preferred 

• 4+ years in retail energy, power/gas trading, risk, portfolio analytics, or deal structuring. 

• Strong analytical and modelling capability; comfort with valuation tools and complex datasets. 

• Strong understanding of load profiles, hedging, imbalance markets, and risk allocation. 

• Proven ability to influence across Sales, Trading, Risk, and Commercial leadership. 

• Clear communicator able to simplify complex concepts for decision‑makers and customers. 

• Strong business writing skills and experience developing communication in various formats 

• Strong interpersonal skills 

• Learner mindset and eye for continuous improvement needs.  

• Excellent analytical, organization and time management skills, with the ability to maintain a strict level of attention to detail  

• Ability to work well within a team environment and demonstrate a vested interest in team goals and objectives  

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships  

• Self-motivated with the desire to consistently improve performance and gain further knowledge  

• Ability to meet deadlines, learn quickly and demonstrate effective problem solving and follow-up skills  

• Comply with company policies and procedures  

What we offer 

The base salary range for this position is $124,000 - $186,000 per year.  Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity. 

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents. 

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives.  For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays.  Additional information on Shell’s US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html. 

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 organization 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 programs 

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 United States 

Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years, leading the sector in energy, petrochemicals and refined products.  Today, we provide millions of Americans with the energy needed to heat and cool their homes and power the economy.   

We operate in all 50 states, from our Deepwater platforms in the Gulf of America to the Pennsylvania Chemicals complex and our miles of pipelines throughout the US. 

We reach our customers through our 13,000 branded retail stations, and we are number 1 in gasoline sales. We also own the #1 brand of motor oil in the U.S. – Pennzoil® – made from natural gas. 

We are excited to play a key role in the move to net carbon emissions while providing the oil and gas needed by society for many decades to come.