Senior Manager Fuel Sourcing & Trading

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

The Senior Manager, Fuel Sourcing & Trading leads Alaska Airlines (AS), Hawaiian Airlines (HA), and Horizon Airlines (QX) enterprise fuel sourcing, logistics, and trading strategy, with accountability for supply reliability, commercial value, market and counterparty risk, governance, and organizational capability across the fuel portfolio. This leader sets the multi-year strategy and operating model for sourcing and trading, establishes decision rights, controls, risk tolerances, and performance measures, and directs execution across high-value supplier, logistics, and trading relationships. The role advises executive leadership on market exposure, sourcing alternatives, price-risk strategies, major commercial commitments, and emerging supply risks. As a people leader, the Senior Manager develops a high-performing team capable of integrating market intelligence, trading, contracting, logistics, analytics, and risk management to improve cost competitiveness, price stability, supply resilience, and transparency.

• Sets the enterprise fuel sourcing, logistics, and trading strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligning commercial priorities, supply resilience, risk appetite, governance, technology, talent, and performance measures with company objectives.
• Owns the sourcing and trading operating model, including decision rights, delegated authorities, policies, controls, counterparty requirements, risk limits, compliance routines, and executive governance.
• Directs enterprise fuel supply strategy, contracting, competitive sourcing, pipeline and terminal nominations, pricing administration, category management, and supplier performance to ensure reliable and cost-effective supply across the network.
• Leads development of market views, sourcing alternatives, and price-risk recommendations using refined-products fundamentals, forward curves, basis relationships, benchmarks, logistics constraints, and scenario analysis.
• Provides senior oversight for approved sourcing and trading activity, ensuring execution aligns with risk tolerances, financial controls, delegated authorities, counterparty requirements, and performance objectives.
• Leads major commercial evaluations and negotiations across AS, HA, and QX fuel portfolio, including complex supply, logistics, terminal, pipeline, and trading-counterparty agreements with significant financial and operational impact.
• Owns strategic supplier and counterparty governance, including qualification, due diligence, credit and operational risk coordination, performance reviews, escalation, corrective action, and relationship strategy.
• Leads and develops the sourcing and trading team, setting priorities, clarifying accountability, building succession and technical capability, and integrating sourcing, trading, logistics, analytics, and risk-management disciplines.
• Advises executive leaders on fuel cost exposure, market conditions, supply risks, sourcing and trading opportunities, commercial tradeoffs, and recommended actions through clear, decision-ready analysis.
• Partners with the Fuel Controller, Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Legal, Supply Chain, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure accurate exposure monitoring, valuation, controls, reporting, and business continuity.
• Sponsors the development and integration of energy trading and risk management, market-data, scheduling, analytics, and reporting capabilities that improve control, transparency, and decision quality.

Required

• 7 years of jet fuel, crude oil, or refined-products trading, sourcing, supply, or logistics experience, including commodity trading and price-risk management.
• 4 years of leadership experience, with at least some of this experience directly leading people.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field, or two additional years of relevant experience in lieu of the degree.
• Experience setting multi-year sourcing, trading, or supply strategy and establishing governance, controls, delegated authorities, and performance measures.
• Experience leading complex, high-value sourcing, trading, logistics, or counterparty negotiations and contract governance.
• Strong knowledge of refined-products markets, supply logistics, pricing benchmarks, forward curves, basis risk, and price-risk management.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including market modeling, scenario analysis, deal structuring, risk quantification, and executive recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and cross-functional partners, build high-performing teams, develop talent, and lead change.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• MBA, relevant master’s degree, or advanced commercial, trading, risk, or supply-chain certification.
• Experience leading an enterprise fuel sourcing, trading, or supply function.
• Deep experience in West Coast and PADD 5 refined-products markets, infrastructure, basis dynamics, and waterborne economics.
• Experience building or scaling commodity trading, price-discovery, or price-risk-management capability.
• Experience using an ETRM platform.
• Experience with self-supply or direct-import programs (cargo financing, letters of credit, chartering, marine logistics).
• Experience with pipeline, terminal, marine, and ground-fuel logistics and scheduling systems.
• Experience with Sustainable Aviation Fuel procurement, blending economics, or emerging aviation-energy markets.
• Experience operating within formal trading controls, counterparty-risk, compliance, and transaction-governance frameworks.

• Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.
• Lead with executive presence, sound judgment, commercial discipline, and accountability while developing a high-performing sourcing and trading team.
• Set enterprise commercial direction and translate market insight into disciplined decisions, governance, and measurable portfolio outcomes.

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air with high priority status 
• Select number of confirmed travel credits provided annually 
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off 

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement  

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.   

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.  

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”).  All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.   

To implement this policy, we will: 

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories; 
(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and 
(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories. 

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions  of VEVRAA. 

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations 
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.