Director, Oil Research

Overview

You will lead LSEG’s Oil Research, shaping strategy and driving differentiated, actionable analysis for a global client base. You will manage a distributed team, guide market views, and advance modelling, workflows, and research processes. The role combines deep oil-market expertise with strategic execution to deliver commercially impactful insights. You will represent LSEG externally and collaborate across functions to remove barriers and enable scale. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence industry thinking and contribute to sustainable growth.

Pay / Benefits

• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

• Lead Oil Research strategy to keep analysis differentiated and aligned to customer needs
• Develop and manage a distributed team ensuring quality, accountability, and delivery
• Guide market views and research output across key oil market segments
• Set priorities for research delivery and product development with Product and commercial teams
• Strengthen modelling capabilities, data workflows, and research processes for efficiency and scalability
• Represent LSEG externally through client engagements, presentations, and industry events
• Partner with Research, Product, Technology, Data, and Operations to deliver outcomes and remove barriers to execution
• Build team capability via hiring, development, and succession planning

Key requirements

• Significant leadership experience in commodities research with a track record of delivering results
• Deep understanding of oil markets: fundamentals, supply and demand, pricing, flows, and commercial drivers
• Proven ability to set strategy, prioritise roadmaps, and deliver in a volatile, cross-functional environment
• Strong partnership skills across Product, Sales, Technology, and Content
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with credibility with senior leaders and clients
• Strong execution focus with experience improving operating models, processes, and ways of working
• Open and constructive approach, able to consider different viewpoints and adapt

• partnership and collaboration
• clear communication
• adaptability
• oil market modelling
• data workflows
• research process improvement

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