IT Project Execution Manager - Trading and Supply

About the role

The IT Project Execution Manager is comfortable running a technically dense, enterprise change program with heavy environment, vendor and test dependencies. Must have led platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programs where infrastructure readiness, software licensing, technical SMEs, test coordination and business communication all had to move in lockstep.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Turn an ambiguous "50/50 estimate" into disciplined execution through structured governance, milestones, RAID management and crisp decision escalation;
• Coordinate deeply technical teams without needing to be the architect, especially across environment, DBA, application, custom code and test workstreams;
• Manage external/vendor dependencies well, especially where license delivery, release notes, product roadmap clarity and demo/education sessions with the vendor influence timing and stakeholder confidence;
• Handle execution under constrained capacity, including explicit prioritization of BAU versus change, and explain trade-offs credibly to senior stakeholders;
• Translate a technical smoke test into executive decisions: whether to progress, pause, re-scope, or sequence follow-on capability work.
• Drive prioritization decisions and alignment with broader upgrade strategy
• Provide concise executive updates with clear risks, decisions required, and next steps
• Demonstrate ETRM experience, preferably Endur
• Demonstrate knowledge of Trading & Supply landscape

Qualifications

• Agree and deliver programs, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within Shell's standards and controls framework.
• Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments.
• Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
• Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes.
• Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavior changes and maximize benefits.
• Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
• Mobilize and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team.
• Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes.
• Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments.
• Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints.
• Assess program risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams.
• Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual.
• Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.
• Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50.
• Agile & waterfall methodology.
• Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital.
• Leadership, communication and resilience.
• Stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.
• Business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling