Simon Papa
Senior Partner
EMEA Supply and Trading: Talent and market insights 2026
Simon Papa
Senior PartnerIntroduction: Supply and Trading recruitment across EMEA
Established in 2010, Pangea is a global recruitment company with offices across Europe, North America, and Asia.
Our Supply and Trading team specialises in recruitment across commodities, energy, and financial trading, supporting trading houses, supermajors, utilities, hedge funds, and infrastructure platforms across the full transactional lifecycle.
Our team works across permanent and contract recruitment, supporting hiring across:
- LNG Trading and Optimisation
- Natural Gas Trading
- Power Trading
- Oil and Products Trading
- Risk Management
- Energy Analytics and Quantitative Strategies
- Trading Technology (ETRM/CTRM, Software Engineering)
With extensive experience across the volatile commodities market, our consultants work closely with clients to deliver talent solutions in an increasingly competitive hiring environment.
Through our live recruitment activity, market mapping, and ongoing client engagement, we have gathered detailed insight into:
- Salary and compensation data
- Bonus structures and profit-sharing models
- Talent shortages and premium skillsets
- Retention challenges and platform stability
- Hiring hotspots across Europe
- Regulatory updates (such as REMIT II) and tech infrastructure pressures
- The changing nature of automated and systematic trading across the sector
- And more…
Our experts have also added commentary on recruitment across both permanent and contract hiring in EMEA trading hubs, including current dynamics across Europe/EMEA.
How are Pangea’s clients using the report?
The EMEA supply and trading market is forever changing, with rising geopolitical volatility, increasing technical demands, and growing competition for commercial talent.
This report has been designed to help businesses:
- Benchmark compensation against the wider market
- Compare their current challenges against competitors’ hiring trends
- Plan workforce growth more effectively
Whether you’re scaling short-term power desks, hiring systematic analysts, or building long-term risk infrastructure, the report provides practical market intelligence to support better hiring decisions. Click here to view our solutions.
"This isn’t just a data drop on compensation; it’s a comprehensive playbook on the exact push and pull factors causing elite commodity professionals to move roles this year."
Simon Papa, Senior Partner, Pangea
"This report was built to give clients practical insight into this ever-changing market."
Raveen Thind, Lead Consultant, Pangea
Speak to the team
To view our EMEA Supply and Trading talent and market insights 2026 report, or discuss your hiring plans in more detail, please contact the team:
LNG Trading:
Gas Trading:
Power Trading:
- (Short-term) Nitesh Pankhania 📧 nitesh.pankhania@pangea-ts.com
- (Forward/Futures) Harrison Clarke 📧 harrison.clarke@pangea-ts.com
Oil Trading:
Risk management:
Energy Analytics and Quantitative Strategies:
Trading Technology (ETRM/CTRM, Software Engineering)
FAQs
What is the EMEA Supply & Trading: Talent and Market Insights report 2026?
It’s Pangea’s 2026 EMEA Supply & Trading talent and market insights report, bringing together recruitment market intelligence, hiring trends, salary benchmarks, and sector commentary across the Europe/EMEA energy and commodities trading market.
Which locations does the report cover?
The report covers the EMEA commodities and energy recruitment market across Europe/EMEA.
What does the report include?
A recruitment market overview across EMEA trading desks, salary trends and compensation data, bonus structure overviews, talent shortages, retention challenges, hiring hotspots, and wider technological and regulatory pressures affecting technical hiring.
Who is the report for?
Trading houses, supermajors, utilities, hedge funds, and infrastructure investors hiring across trading, optimisation, risk, analytics, technology, and commercial operations.
How do I access the report or discuss hiring plans?
Contact the permanent or contract recruitment team at the email addresses listed above to view the report and discuss hiring needs.
Supporting our energy trading clients with their recruitment needs
The following case studies highlight how we're working with trading houses, supermajors, utilities, hedge funds, and infrastructure platforms across the full transactional lifecycle.
"Nitesh exceeded our expectations. He not only helped us define the role and the ideal candidate but also provided invaluable guidance, negotiating on our behalf and ensuring that the candidate’s skills and goals aligned with our company’s vision. He puts his time and effort on finding the right candidates for the open position. I recommend him to all energy trading companies."
Cagdas Ozan Ates, Chief Commercial Officer & Partner at MFT Energy
"Raveen has been an absolute pleasure to work with over this short period of time. She has delivered candidates of high quality and relevance, shown great candidate management ability and always takes time to understand the specific needs of the business/vacancy. It’s great to work with a true recruitment professional."
Mani Dhunna, HR Lead at CF Partners
"Raveen's presentation of candidates relevant to the criteria outlined and expansion of search to include Asian linked markets was impressive. There was good organisation working with our HR to arrange interview times."
Vijay Sandhu, Energy Trader at Gunvor
"I have dealt with many recruitment consultants, and Ollie is the best recruiter I have ever met. The professionalism and dedication rendered for the role were flawlessly executed. Ollie has the ability to identify a good match for the customer’s requirements and find the right talent. I have a great time working with Ollie and I would strongly recommend his services."
Johnny Tantoso, Sales Operations (Refined Products) at Qatar Energy
Pangea - energy trading recruitment specialists
To find out more about how Pangea could help you with your hiring needs visit our Supply and Trading page to see:
- how we support clients with their recruitment needs across, Gas, LNG, Oil, Analytics, Risk and Trading Technology
- our latest customer testimonials
- the latest live energy specialist vacancies were working on.