Director, Oil Research

About the role

LSEG is seeking an experienced, forward-looking leader to head its Oil Research capability within Commodities Research. The role combines deep market expertise with strong leadership and strategic execution, shaping strategy, influencing global thinking on oil markets and leading an international team. It offers the chance to lead all aspects of research work so that analysis remains relevant, actionable and commercially impactful.

Key responsibilities

• Lead LSEG's Oil Research strategy, keeping analysis, data and insight differentiated, relevant and aligned to customer needs
• Lead and develop a distributed team of research professionals, ensuring high standards of quality, accountability and delivery
• Guide the development of 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 to improve efficiency and scalability
• Represent LSEG externally through customer engagement, presentations and industry events
• Partner across Research, Product, Technology, Data and Operations teams to remove barriers to execution
• Build team capability through hiring, development and succession planning

Required profile

• Significant leadership experience in commodities research, with a track record of delivering results and leading teams
• Deep understanding of oil markets, including fundamentals, supply and demand, pricing, flows and the commercial drivers of demand
• Experience setting strategy, prioritising roadmaps and delivering outcomes in a volatile, cross-functional environment
• Experience partnering across Product, Sales, Technology and Content functions
• Ability to engage senior leaders and clients, and to improve operating models, processes and ways of working