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As a Senior Project Manager, you will plan, execute, and control a project or set of related projects to meet identified business requirements and deliver business value, through acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, risk, quality, and benefits. Senior Project Managers in Shell are accountable for projects with significant scope and medium to large sized teams. You will be expected to:

• Agree and deliver a body of work, organised into programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit profiles, delivered within Shell's standards and controls framework;
• Proactively analyse variances against plan to assess trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments. Identify signs that a project may be at risk and take appropriate action;
• Engage internal and external stakeholders such as users, customers or suppliers to fully benefit from the delivered products, services and changes;
• Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes in order to maximise benefits;
• Align expectations and ensure that the decision-making of stakeholders happen in a timely and effective manner;
• Mobilise and lead teams composed of 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 programme risks as they are encountered and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and ultimately benefit, continuously managing the business cases of constituent projects and workstreams;
• Ensure that all deliverables, whether software, hardware, processes, products or business change are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and/or business‑as‑usual.

This role requires deep external experience - with a rich Project Delivery experience proven across multiple Energy or Banking clients, with a demonstrated experience of complex multi‑disciplinary delivery successes. It is a must that you've delivered release & UAT management for commodity trading applications either in Power or Gas. You must have also have experience of performing in a Test Manager role. The candidate will have managed development teams and, The core competences required for this Job Profile and Job Grade can be referenced from My Career in IT page on the Shell Hub and include:

• A 4-year degree in IT or a related field.
• Commodities experience (Power & Gas)
• Typical Experience: Substantial (10+ years) in IT with significant (5+ years) of experience in delivering progressively larger and more complex projects;
• Professional certifications related to project management such as PMP (preferred) or Prince 2 Practitioner and/or Scrum Master certification.
• Program and project delivery skills and experience in both agile and waterfall methodologies; Agile / Kanban methodology is a must.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Domain knowledge and skills in Trading or Finance of business and functions;
• Technology skills like cloud, mobile, software-as-a-service and digital platforms;
• Professional skills, such as leadership, communication and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurial skills, such as a business‑value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling, and enabling value creation.
• Demonstrated learning agility in ambiguous and unfamiliar situations.
• Experience in leading a distributed team.

As a member of the T&S Shell Energy Delivery Management team, you will have the opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment that is fast paced and changing fundamentally as Shell transforms its business to meet the ambition to be a net‑zero emissions energy business by 2050, whilst delivering a world class business case. In your program and project management career at Shell you will be expected to enact change and deliver value globally across business lines and geographies.