Sr. IT Business Manager Energy Trading

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

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Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in

Shell Trading and Supply is the world's largest energy trader. It combines a global network of trading companies, industry leading shipping and maritime capabilities, and an integrated network of supply and distribution activities to act as the central integrator for Shell.

Adjoining our Trading Risk Management’s (STRM) IT Strategic Plan, the IT Manager must identify, select, refine, and relentlessly manage a robust pipeline of technology and data opportunities that target the unlocking of new sources of business value from recognised business and customer problems. Equal emphasis should be placed on value realisation from Portfolio optimisation opportunities, as well as scale and replicate opportunities. Diligence in benefits realisation should be observed, with emphasis on value protection (avoidance of value erosion) across investments.

What’s the role?

The STRM IT Manager must manage risk to the Portfolio and drive compliance to agreed Enterprise IT standards, representing this agenda equally to business stakeholders. The STRM IT Manager’s portfolio is comprised of applications owned and managed by other IT Business Portfolios. This role requires a high level of both business and IT stakeholder management. The IT Manager must work with the IT Portfolio Managers to help them understand STRM’s business vision and mobilize their teams to prioritize and deliver key outcomes, as captured in the corresponding IT Strategic Plan.

Success is judged against fulfilment of business KPIs and effective management of risk across the IT business portfolio by the business-facing natural teams.

Key components of the role include:

Stakeholder Management

Manages a network of business and x-functional IT stakeholders, structuring relationships to build rapport, trust, and mutual respect.

Leads business stakeholder engagements and seeks to inform, influence and challenge, using data driven insights to frame compelling stories.

Champions and role-models a One Team mindset and aligns and orchestrates the business facing natural team(s) to enable the right business outcomes and yield value from technology and data.

Inspires and coaches others to operate commercially and demonstrate value from technology and data.

Manages actively the reputation of the IT business portfolio and IT Function by telling the right stories and using the right data points at the right time.

Grows and refreshes internal and external networks to elevate future business differentiation through technology and data.

Captures feedback from business stakeholders in a structured way during the annual Business Survey exercise.

Integrated IT and Business Strategy

Contributes to the IT Strategic Plan for the IT business portfolio, focusing in on aspects of the plan that impact regulatory obligations of the STRM business.

Works with multiple IT Portfolio Managers to prioritize delivery of STRM’s key outcomes as captured in the IT Strategic Plan

Operates as the business co-pilot, leading with commercial mindset to enable business vision and fulfill business KPIs from technology and data.

Demonstrates art of the possible with technology and data, orchestrating prototypes to demonstrate new business models and additional sources of profit.

Shapes and guides technology investment decision-making, fully aligning choices to defined business priorities or challenges.

Represents robustly the Enterprise IT strategy and associated standards for business compliance and scaled management of risk.

Drives technology adoption for deeper customer penetration and competitive differentiation.

Drives data commoditization for business enablement and future revenue generation.

Challenges business models and processes no longer adding value, recommending options to pivot.

Supports business planning and facilitates complementary IT processes.

Value Generation & Protection

Obsesses about unlocking business value and applying a commercial mindset to all aspects of the IT business portfolio.

Balances value generation from new investments with value harvesting from existing assets and the IT business portfolio landscape.

Works the Value Funnel relentlessly, refining and prioritizing opportunities consistently, pursuing and refining standalone opportunities.

Protects value by managing opportunities across the opportunity lifecycle, transparently tracking and sharing investment performance against KPI fulfilment to evidence value yields.

Builds compelling and robust business cases, framing the commercial opportunity, business benefits, and associated business change/impact.

Drives clarity of investment cost (OPEX/CAPEX), and defines IT performance metrics, measurements, and benefits.

Ensures value data is correctly represented and managed in ServiceNow.

Manages a calendar of PIRs to extract learnings that inform future opportunity development and investment decision-making.

IT Portfolio Management

Provides input to the IT Strategic Plan to the business-facing natural teams, refreshing the Plan with the team consistently during the year.

Ensures the adherence to Enterprise IT standards and policies for applications within the STRM scope.

Orchestrates and brokers across functional lines and multiple IT delivery teams to translate business requirements into value-enabling outcomes.

Balances business IT portfolio risk and health with speed to value.

Drives the Portfolio to consider innovative ways of reducing cost and harvesting additional business benefit from the existing technology and data landscape.

Takes the challenge to the business on cost optimization, managing conversations around business process harmonization/standardization.

Understands and clearly communicates STRM’s CFTC accountabilities for the delivery of safe, reliable, secure, and affordable operations by the IT portfolios, ensuring alignment with SLAs.

Assesses Enterprise IT changes to determine impact to the STRM business and communicates plans to implement such changes with the STRM business stakeholders.

Acts as a reporting member of the STRM Board, representing IT in the areas of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Secure and Reliable Operations of Applications.

Participates in STRM internal audits and CFTC inquiries as needed.

Business Intelligence

Understands the RDS Group vision, strategy and purpose and how the business portfolio contributes to its fulfilment.

Understands the value chain of the business portfolio, customer journeys, and customer touchpoints.

Keeps abreast of CFTC and regulatory changes that impact the portfolio, and works with IT Portfolio managers to mobilize delivery teams to meet STRMs obligations to comply to the changes.

Explores new market entrants, disruption, and competitor movement, prioritizing the IT business portfolio’s scope accordingly in mitigation and response.

Generates compelling and provocative thought leadership informed by internal and external insights and research.

Innovation

Champions new ways of being - individually, in their team(s), and across the IT business portfolio to maximize the value possible from technology.

Advocates for technology and self-starts to inform themselves about new and emerging technologies (products and services) through a rich network of internal and external stakeholders, as well through industry events.

Advocates the use of data to drive fact-based discussions and decision-making, seeking insights that inform technology choices.

Advocates the use of new approaches, where beneficial, to their work and the work of their team(s), including design-thinking methods, prototyping, and agile ways of working.

Inspires customer-centric approaches to strategic analysis, opportunity development, and solution design.

What we need from you?

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

At least a bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Information Technology or Computer Science (or related discipline).

At least 8 – 10 year’s Relevant working experience in Trading, Supply and Risk management businesses, with a deep knowledge of IT and business landscape in one or more areas of these businesses.

Deep Exposure to Trading applications such as Endure.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with over 90,000 employees in more than 70 countries and territories. In the US, we have operated for over a century and are a major oil and gas producer onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico, a recognized innovator in exploration and production technology, and a leading manufacturer and marketer of fuels, natural gas and petrochemicals. We deliver energy responsibly; operate safely with respect to our neighbours and work to minimize our environmental impact. We are in search of remarkable people who will thrive in a diverse and inclusive work environment to deliver exciting projects locally and globally. People who are passionate about exploring new frontiers. Innovators and pioneers. People with the drive to help shape our future. Because remarkable people achieve remarkable things.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…

We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply and we’ll take it from there.

We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.

We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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