IT Project Execution Manager - Trading and Supply
Houston, TX
Contracted
PTS - SHELL
Experienced
Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as a contract IT Project Execution Manager - Trading and Supply. This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with an estimated start date of July 1st. Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.
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.
The ideal candidate will:
Roles and Responsibilities:
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.
The ideal candidate will:
- 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
Roles and Responsibilities:
- 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 behaviour 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 organisational 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
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