Global Trading Commercial Graduate - London

About us

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.

The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies. 

We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together .

ExxonMobil Global Trading is where we trade oil, natural gas, and energy products safely and responsibly around the world. We leverage our expertise in analytics, logistics, origination, and knowledge of energy markets to maximize the value of our global assets and deliver industry-leading results. This is an exciting time to join our growing trading team and be an integral part of ExxonMobil!

What’s in it for you?

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

You will also receive:

• Competitive starting salary
• Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• Share incentive plan
• Private healthcare for employees and their families
• Resettlement allowance (subject to eligibility)

What you will do

As a Global Trading commercial graduate you will be furnished with a real job from day one, gaining hands on experience, to help cultivate foundational trading skills to establish your own career path.

Areas to apply:

Your first role will be determinded by which team you apply to: -

Trading Analytics - Performing fundamental market analysis for your commodity that includes using proprietary and third-party data in order to develop actionable market insights of where you see the market evolving and the opportunities for physical and derivative market positions to support commercial decision making by our trading teams. You will be given the opportunity to develop analytical market views to support trading decisions, researching and highlighting key market events and monitoring how they affect sentiment.

Fusion & Systems – The Fusion team enhances decision-making across our energy trading desks, including the front and middle office team such as Market Risk, by delivering rapid prototyping and expert support in data engineering, software development, and data science and visualization. You will learn how an agile software development team works, code data pipelines and solve big data problems.

Trader Development Program (TDP) – Our Trader Development Program (TDP) is a fast paced, competitive program that will enable you to develop the competencies and skills required to become a successful energy trader at ExxonMobil. You will complete multiple trading role rotations to gain crucial experience in operations, risk and analytics. Throughout your time on the TDP you will receive formal training as well as mentoring and feedback from Senior Traders to further your development. All of this will lead to a formal end of Program assessment. If successful, you will be ready to commence your career as a trader enjoying roles with increasing complexity, responsibility and market exposure.

About you

To be eligible for this role, you must:

• Have at least a 2:1 degree in any subject
  • N.B. For Fusion & Systems candidates should be proficient in a programming language such as Python, C# or SQL and have good working knowledge of developer processes and tools e.g. version control, CI/CD
• Be graduating in 2026 or have graduated in the last 3 years (2025-2023)
• Be able to demonstrate:
  • A strong attention to detail
  • Analytical, numerical and problem solving skills
  • An interest in physical commodities and financial markets
  • The ability to communicate, collaborate and work effectively with an international team environment
  • Leadership capabilities

Relevant work experience would be advantageous but is not essential.

What are the next steps?

If you are interested, you can apply now.

The closing date for this opportunity is Sunday 19th October 2025 , at which point we will commence our assessment process. If your application is not successful at any stage we will let you know as soon as we can.

If your application meets or exceeds our minimum criteria following the closing date, you will be invited to take part in a behavioural assessment.

Successful candidates will subsequently be invited to participate in a Zoom interview including a technical competency assessment.

For candidates who successfully navigate the steps above, our final round, encompasses a one day assessment, in early December.

ExxonMobil recognises that recruiting and developing the right people is key to our success and so we look for applicants who demonstrate the right skills, attitudes, capability and potential. Our processes are designed to be robust, engaging and consistent.

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