Energy Trading Search

Market Scope

Our energy trading search capability spans a wide array of commodity markets and trading strategies. We successfully place individuals across:

• Power, gas, LNG, oil, and refined products trading

• Emissions, carbon, and environmental products trading

• Cross-commodity proprietary and arbitrage trading

• Structured products, long-term offtake agreements, and PPAs

• Systematic and algorithmic trading across energy derivatives

• Renewable energy and flexibility markets

We operate across major trading hubs in the UK, UAE, Europe, North America and Asia, adapting our approach to each market’s regulatory and commercial structure.

Functional Expertise

We offer deep specialisation across core areas within power trading recruitment, including:

• Power Traders & Portfolio Managers:Recruiting high-performance individuals in speculative, hedging or proprietary trading roles, whether physical or financial in nature.

• Structuring & Origination:Placing professionals who develop structured power products, manage complex offtake agreements and originate PPAs that meet evolving market demands.

• Fundamental Analysis & Market Intelligence:Delivering talent skilled in modelling supply/demand balances, load forecasting, capacity analysis and understanding of transmission constraints.

• Quantitative & Algorithmic Trading:Sourcing experts in model development, algorithmic execution, pricing systems and quantitative strategy implementation for automated and high-frequency power trading.

• Asset Optimisation & Dispatch Strategy:Providing professionals with advanced optimisation capabilities across generation assets, storage facilities and demand response portfolios, maximising value from physical assets in volatile power markets.

Our clients face increasing challenges in building and scaling competitive trading teams. Proco Group addresses these challenges head-on:

• Visibility:We provide access to off-market candidates not visible through conventional networks, especially in this highly specialised and fragmented talent pool.

• Portability:Our consultants assess candidate adaptability between market structures, ensuring traders and analysts can transition successfully across regions or asset classes.

• Technical & Cultural Fit:Through detailed market intelligence and consultative screening, we ensure placements are aligned with both the team’s trading style and company ethos.

• Timing & Motivation:By tracking individual movement and market cycles, we position our clients to hire when candidates are most open and when business needs are most urgent.