About the role
AI summarisedThis is a trading lead role at Sembcorp, an energy company, responsible for driving electricity trading activities and managing a team of traders. The role involves desk leadership, strategy translation, risk management, and stakeholder advisory to optimize portfolio value and ensure operational excellence.
UtilitiesFull-timePower Trading and Operations
Key Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day electricity trading execution, ensuring timely, high-quality decisions across relevant time horizons (e.g., intra-day, day-ahead, short-term, and term where applicable).
- Set daily/weekly desk priorities, ensure coverage discipline, and act as escalation point for market events and position management.
- Drive post-trade and post-event reviews to improve decision quality and performance.
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of electricity traders, building capability in fundamentals, judgment, and disciplined execution.
- Set performance expectations and measurable goals; run structured performance check-ins and capability development plans.
- Ensure consistent adherence to desk standards (controls, playbooks, review cadence, documentation).
- Translate portfolio objectives into executable desk-level trading strategies, ensuring alignment with operational realities and commercial exposures.
- Work closely with relevant internal stakeholders to incorporate asset constraints, availability, and portfolio needs into trading decisions.
- Operate within approved risk limits and governance frameworks; monitor exposures and escalate breaches/near-breaches appropriately.
- Strengthen trading controls and discipline (approvals, position monitoring, limit utilisation, reporting cadence).
- Ensure audit readiness and strong operational controls across the trading lifecycle.
- Oversee end-to-end processes supporting trading, including bid submissions, confirmations, settlement coordination, and issue resolution.
Requirements
- A degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong experience in electricity trading and/or market operations within power and gas trading or trading house with physical exposure.
- Demonstrated experience leading a trading desk or managing traders.
- Strong understanding of wholesale electricity market dynamics, trading operations, and risk discipline, particularly in Singapore/similar markets.
- Strong commercial judgment and disciplined risk mindset.
- Proven people leader (coaching, performance management, team operating rhythm).
- Able to operate effectively within structured governance / approval environments.
- Clear communicator with senior stakeholders; capable of translating market complexity into decisions.