Senior Manager Crude & NGL Marketing

Diversified Energy Company is seeking a high-performing commercial professional to support and grow our crude oil, NGL, and CO₂ marketing portfolio.

This role is accountable for driving commercial outcomes across a multi-commodity, multi-basin asset base, combining hands-on execution with portfolio optimization, systems thinking, and strategic input. The position requires strong commercial judgment, the ability to navigate operational complexity, and a focus on improving margin across the value-chain.

In addition to core commercial responsibilities, this role plays a key part in advancing how the business operates leveraging data, systems, and emerging AI capabilities to improve decision-making, scalability, and execution efficiency.

The position is structured as a Senior Manager, with scope and leadership responsibilities aligned to the candidate’s experience and demonstrated capabilities.

About the Role

Diversified operates a unique, multi-basin and multi-commodity platform, requiring close coordination across commercial, operational, and financial functions.

This role offers the opportunity to:

• Work across crude, NGL, natural gas, and CO₂ assets
• Support a rapidly growing and acquisition-driven portfolio
• Contribute to commercial strategy, execution, and systems development
• Potentially lead and develop a team of marketing professionals

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Marketing & Execution

• Manage the marketing and sale of crude oil, NGLs, and CO₂ across assigned assets
• Negotiate and administer sales, transportation, and midstream agreements
• Monitor market conditions and identify opportunities to optimize pricing and netbacks
• Support both short-term execution and longer-term commercial strategy

Asset & Portfolio Optimization

• Identify and execute opportunities to enhance value through:
  • Contract structuring
  • Transportation and fractionation optimization
  • Coordination with operations and midstream partners
  • Support development planning and asset-level decision making
  • Evaluating and executing liquids-in-kind strategies where advantageous

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with internal stakeholders including: Operations, Engineering, Accounting, Contracts, and IT
• Coordinate commercial activity with Midstream providers, purchasers, and external partners

Team Leadership (Experience-Dependent)

• May lead a team of Marketing Representatives (Rep II level) responsible for asset-level execution

Marketing Representative responsibilities include:

• Managing customer relationships and commercial agreements
• Negotiating crude, NGL, and related contracts
• Coordinating with internal teams and external counterparties
• Supporting invoicing, accruals, and reconciliation processes
• Identifying commercial opportunities and supporting portfolio optimization

For candidates earlier in their leadership development, this role may initially focus on individual contribution, with a defined path toward team leadership.

Systems, Data, AI & Commercial Infrastructure

Operate effectively within and help evolve commercial systems, including ETRM platforms (e.g., FIS Aligne, etc.), ensuring alignment between contracts, physical flows, and financial outcomes.

Identify and drive improvements in:

• Contract-to-cash workflows
• Data integrity and system connectivity
• Commercial reporting and decision support tools

Lead or support the design, implementation, or enhancement of ETRM and commercial systems, including:

• Contract capture and lifecycle management
• Volume, pricing, and settlement integration
• Workflow standardization across commodities and assets
• Develop and implement scalable workflows that improve efficiency, reduce manual processes, and enable faster commercial decision-making

Leverage and advance the use of:

• AI tools, large language models, and agentic workflows to streamline commercial processes, enhance analysis, and improve execution
• Partner with IT, analytics, and commercial teams to translate business needs into practical system and automation solutions
• Contribute to building a scalable commercial infrastructure capable of supporting continued growth and acquisitions

Required

• Experience in commodity marketing, trading, or commercial operations, with exposure to one or more of the following: Crude oil, NGLs, Natural gas / gas processing.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating and managing commercial agreements
• Understanding of midstream systems, pricing structures, and physical flows
• Ability to work effectively across multiple functions and manage competing priorities

Preferred

• Experience across multiple basins, ideally including the Western Anadarko, Appalachia, Permian, and Haynesville/Cotton Valley.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-moving environments, making sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated ability to evaluate complex deal structures, identify and execute margin enhancing opportunities, and balance market dynamics and risks.
• Proven track record of building and leveraging commercial relationships that drive tangible outcomes.
• Experience participating in or leading ETRM implementation, upgrade, or redesign efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to build or improve workflows using data, automation, or AI tools.
• Strong systems orientation with the ability to bridge commercial needs and technical solutions
• Prior leadership experience or demonstrated readiness to lead.

• Prolonged periods working at a desk in front of a computer.

• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at a time.