Oil Market Analyst Middle East

Sparta

We re seeking a Oil Market Analyst to join our team in Dubai and lead client adoption and commercial growth across the Middle East.

As a Product Expert, you ll be a trusted advisor and product champion, sitting at the crossroads of product, sales, customer success, and research. Your mission is to help clients adopt Sparta s workflows, demonstrate clear value in their daily operations, and ensure regional market needs are represented in our platform. You ll also play a key role in shaping and delivering regional research and market analysis, reinforcing Sparta s thought leadership in EMEA and APAC.

In addition, you ll support API-led sales and adoption, helping clients understand and integrate Sparta s data and intelligence directly into their internal systems and workflows.

What youll be doing:

• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, supporting them in adopting Sparta s workflows and maximizing the value of our offerings.
• Drive market expansion by working with Sales to grow our presence across Middle Eastern commodity hubs.
• Contribute to regional research and commentaries, translating Sparta s data and insights into high-quality written outputs for clients and the market.
• Be the regional voice of the customer, ensuring market-specific workflows and requirements feed into Sparta s product roadmap.
• Support Customer Success in embedding Sparta into client operations, securing adoption that leads to long-term renewals.
• Strengthen industry presence by representing Sparta at events, briefings, and roundtables across Dubai and beyond.
• Build strategic networks with NOCs, refiners, and trading houses to expand Sparta s influence and drive growth.

About you:

• Strong knowledge of oil markets and refined products, with experience in trading, analytics, or product roles.
• Proven ability to engage directly with front-office teams and decision-makers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including producing market commentaries.
• Entrepreneurial, commercially minded, thrives in high-growth environments.
• Confident communicator in English (Arabic a plus).
• Well-connected across energy trading and analytics in the Middle East.
• Thrives in ambiguity. Proactive, with a proven ability to work with a high level of independence and urgency
• High level of integrity, ethical standards, and alignment with Sparta s values