Erick E. Tapia Estrada

Experienced and enthusiastic Business & Market Manager with track record of success in trading environments from energy to environmental Commodities. Possesses exceptional interpersonal, problem-solving and analytical skills to provide advice and expertise to organizations improving business performance. Experienced in all aspects of trading, operations, strategy and finance.

Over the past ~2 years, I have work as a Senior Trading Analyst in a global trading house on environmental commodities, being mainly involved in:

• Developed an in-house solution, which automatizes the collection, saving, updating, and reporting of short-term Supply & Demand interest (saved ~10hrs p/week of manual work)
• Developed a process to extract tradable insights from STX Bid-Offer Tool, which required enhancing the tool, improving the query, and generating insightful visuals
• Developed a process to visualized in a Power BI Dashboard insightful internal and external info.
• Developing a product-supplied to market balance to improve the long-term price outlook model and enhance short-term fundamental analysis.

During my previous 18 years, I excelled as a Consultant and Market and Business Intelligence Manager.

As a Consultant, I had the following key clients Grupo Simsa, Galca Energy and ProSapient.

At Simsa I delivered the following:

• Pricing strategies for 20+ fuel cargoes.
• Developed Shell Supply account as a key supplier.
• Structured retail pricing for 4 fuels and 40 delivery points, increasing the margin by 5%.

As a Market and Business Intelligence Manager, I excelled at:

• Managed energy & petrochemical markets and regulatory intelligence for strategic decisions'
• Advisor to the commercial VP & CEO on energy markets & business strategy.
• Key opinion leader for executive management (PMI’s & PEMEX CEO’s).
• Developed innovative analytical tools to support data driven decision for the executive leadership.
• Developed a multi-sided, real-time & auditable P&L tracker, S&L costs, demurrages & claims.
• Developed solutions for trade compliance, vessel chartering and S&L (operations).
• Contributed with market & business intelligence, contract structuring, and know-how to multi-discipline teams like trading, strategy, S&L, compliance & management, as well as, corporate teams (project planners, business planning, government affairs, country, and international regulation).