Senior Technology Strategy and Market Analyst

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer. 

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Senior Technology Strategy and Market Analyst to join our Technology Outlook and Strategy Division within the Technology Strategy & Planning Department (TSPD).

TSPD’s mission is to provide high-impact leadership and support across the technology life-cycle, from strategy setting to value realization and sustainable growth, and partner with corporate and business stakeholders to integrate new technologies into the company’s strategies and investment plans.

Your primary role is to provide strategic long-term analysis and critical insights on major economic, policy and technology trends impacting the global energy industry, as well as insightful long-term perspectives on the energy transition and on emerging and disruptive low-carbon energy and digital technologies.

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Conduct quantitative analyses and research on global market dynamics, technology landscape, techno-economics, supply chain analysis, and relevant research on policies and regulations, to develop high-impact internal publications and external narratives, and to deliver presentations to the Company’s senior executives, and other internal stakeholders.
• Prepare high-quality insights and publications including technology outlook reports, whitepapers, deep-dives, technology narratives, and strategy documents to support corporate strategic decision-making, as well as R&D and technology programs.
• Conduct comprehensive global market and industry research of conventional, emerging and disruptive low-carbon energy technologies, such as renewables and storage, low-carbon hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, advanced materials and critical minerals, industrial decarbonization technologies, as well as digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, amongst others.
• Keep abreast of evolving climate policies and regulations impacting the global energy industry, to be able to craft compelling stories and presentations, and provide insightful analysis to key internal stakeholders and senior executives, with particular focus on low-carbon energy technologies supporting the energy and materials transition, and assess potential challenges and opportunities for the business.
• Apply strong analytical and communication skills and demonstrate a deep understanding of global energy and commodity markets, and digital sector technologies, realizing valuable relationships with existing and potential internal and external stakeholders, and producing high quality publications to support corporate strategic decision making.

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Master's degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline, Economics, Public Policy, or Energy and Environmental Policy. A PhD would be a distinct advantage.
• You will have a minimum of 10 years’ experience related to energy, commodities, or digital industries, with particular focus on low-carbon energy and digital technologies and their applications, as well as understanding of energy transition trends and the implications of geopolitics on global energy markets and the business.
• You must have experience gained from a reputable economics, energy, or management consulting firms, research organizations, data providers or from corporate planning functions in the energy and petrochemicals industries, are highly regarded.
• You should be able to demonstrate strong quantitative, techno-economic modeling skills to assess the impact of global and regional economic, policy and technology developments on energy markets would be highly desirable.
• You should be a strategic thinker with demonstrated recognition by peers as a subject matter expert with a deep understanding of major global trends impacting the energy industry, and how low-carbon energy technologies could play a role in a sustainable energy future.
• Demonstrated evidence in successfully translating strategic and business objectives into actionable technology and R&D imperatives, and in interacting effectively with different internal and external audiences including scientists, engineers, economists, public relations professionals, Senior Executives, as well as with external collaborators in government, industrial partners and academia is also essential.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.