Director of Research - Liquids

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Who We Are

East Daley Analytics is a leading provider of North American energy infrastructure and commodity market insights. We combine proprietary data, rigorous analysis, and market expertise to help clients navigate investment decisions, M&A transactions, and commodity market opportunities.

Our mission is to move the market. We deliver insights that shape real decisions for influential leaders in energy and finance - with speed, rigor, and conviction. We value transparency, innovation, high standards, and a play-to-win mindset, while enjoying winning together.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a commercially minded and hands-on research leader to own and elevate our North American Liquids franchise. You will set the research agenda, lead and develop analysts, support product commercialization, drive market views, and turn those views into differentiated insights for clients making trading, investment, and infrastructure decisions. The focus is crude oil and NGL fundamentals; experience in refined products and downstream markets is highly valuable.

This is a high-visibility, client-facing research role. You will have support from analysts on data, models, and recurring deliverables, while remaining accountable for the conclusions and how they are communicated. We value initiative, intellectual independence, rigorous debate, speed, and the conviction to make a call - along with the humility to change it when the evidence does.

What You Will Own

Research strategy & market conviction

• Set a forward-looking research agenda for North American crude oil and NGL markets, connecting basin supply to gathering, processing, pipelines, storage, fractionation, refining, petrochemicals and exports.

• Build and challenge bottom-up forecasts, supply/demand balances, transportation and utilization models, and hub-price or differential outlooks; turn dislocations and infrastructure constraints into actionable investment and commercial implications.

• Form distinctive, evidence-based market views and take ownership of the analysis, assumptions, conclusions, and commercial narrative behind published research.

Team leadership & execution

• Lead and develop the analyst team: set clear priorities, raise analytical standards and forecast quality, strengthen commercial judgment and big-picture, cross-commodity thinking, provide candid feedback, and build capabilities for evolving customer and market needs.

• Structure the team effectively, develop cross-team efficiencies, and build succession depth.

• Establish repeatable quality assurance, model documentation, data lineage and version-control practices so EDA's work remains reliable and scalable. Improve the use of AI, Excel, Python, SQL and other analytical tools to automate recurring research, reconcile multiple datasets and strengthen forecast reproducibility.

Client impact & thought leadership

• Be a visible subject-matter expert: write compelling market commentary, lead client discussions, present at roadshows and webinars, and represent EDA at selected industry events.

• Partner with Commercial and Consulting to understand client questions, support strategic accounts, help defend and expand subscriptions, and identify high-value research or advisory opportunities.

• Translate complex physical-market dynamics into clear, direct conclusions for energy executives, traders, investors and other decision-makers.

Product commercialization & collaboration

• Set a customer-informed product development agenda as prioritized by customer demand, product gaps, competitive developments, advisory learnings and emerging needs across commodities.

• Support commercialization of products by translating complex internal analytics into differentiated customer use cases, compelling value propositions and clear commercial narratives that support customer decisions and demonstrate the value of

EDA’s insights

• Partner with Product, Data, Sales and Marketing on product & platform positioning, packaging, sales enablement and go-to-market execution to drive adoption, retention and revenue.