Portfolio Manager - SEAM Real Time Power

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

May 5, 2022

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 Royal Dutch Shell. Our trading capability, deep market knowledge, global portfolio and end-to-end integration within Shell creates opportunities to deliver value for our customers and for Shell across Upstream, Downstream, Integrated Gas and New Energies. Through our main trading offices in London, Houston, Singapore, Dubai and Rotterdam we trade crude oil, natural gas, LNG, electricity, refined products, chemical feedstocks and environmental products. With more than 125 distribution terminals and hundreds of outside supply points in around 25 countries, our supply and distribution infrastructure is well positioned to make deliveries around the world. Trading is at the centre of the Shell's Energy Transition and Decarbonisation plans, working closely with New Energies and the wider business to develop lower carbon solutions, driven through technology and data. If you would like to be at the centre of Shell's future, join Trading & Supply and play a part in the delivery of our energy future.

What's the role?

The Portfolio Manager is responsible for the value delivery of technology development scope enabled through product management across a subset of an IT business portfolio, or its full extent (as directed by the ITGM) aligned to clusters of applications. The Portfolio Manager collaborates with corresponding business stakeholders to ensure that technology development is correctly structured to enable the target business vision, roadmap, and fulfils agreed KPIs irrespective of technology and associated lifecycles. He or she has full oversight to TCO and orchestrates associated activity for EOL. He or she manages risk and compliance to Enterprise IT standards across their scope, raising and managing escalations across the broader IT organisation, where required, driving these to resolution. He or she ensures that demand is correctly managed and corresponding capability requests raised and fulfilled in a timely manner, working across the Business Facing Natural Team to guarantee fulfilment.

Key responsibilities are:


Delivery Management & Assurance
Enterprise Compliance
Value Generation & Protection
Stakeholder Management
Business Intelligence
Innovation


Responsibilities:

Delivery Management & Assurance:

Orchestrates and administers development lifecycles corresponding to the in-scope technology stack for performance against agreed KPIs in line with business vision and roadmap. Drives fulfilment of agreed value yields from technology development and successfully manages demand across lifecycles, sourcing and requesting capability from across the organisation in line with Enterprise processes. Manages budgets appropriately and in line with business plans. Manages escalations, where required, to resolve fulfilment issues, orchestrating their resolution across organisational boundaries, where required.

Value Generation & Protection:

Ensures the delivery of value outcomes by applying investment discipline to IT expenditure and rigour in benefits realisation. Intervenes and escalates to senior leadership where return on investment is not being realised driving decision making on the resolution roadmap. Demonstrates significant commercial skill, role modelling behaviours that emphasise commercial mindset, customer centrism, and competitive differentiation. Seeks opportunities to commercialise data and means of realising development efficiencies through automation across the in-scope technology stack.

Stakeholder Management:

Drives a One Team mindset; works closely with the IT General Manager, IT Managers, and Product Line Managers (only were operating across the full extent of the IT business portfolio) to understand, align, restructure and shape how development and delivery scope aligns to overarching strategic success goals, Line of Business objectives, and consumer expectations. Agrees business interfaces with the IT GM and manages relationships with vigour and executive presence.

Business Intelligence:

Demonstrates unrivalled understanding of business and consumer including strategic imperatives and desires. Recognises and understands the impact of industry movements, new market entrants/competitor behaviours, and consumer trends. Enables the consumer journey through ruthless focus on development of the right demand that furthers competitive advantage.

Innovation:

Drives the consistent use of innovation methods and data driven insights across technology development teams.

Skills and Requirements

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.
Observable IT portfolio management skills (value, demand, budget, lifecycle)
Demonstrated leadership and team enablement skills centred on collaboration and ability to inspire innovation and consumer orientation across teams
Ability to work through complexity and across organizational boundaries to broker agreements and bring together the right capabilities at the right time
Strong commercial mindset enabled by rounded understanding of business, consumer, and technology
Ability to strongly focus on both business value delivery, as well as assessing those technical debt items that require attention, and capable of communicating that value to business stakeholders as well.
Adept at influencing and challenging at senior levels to achieve the right outcomes across business and technology environments
Broad network beyond Shell into peer organisations, technology partners, and thought leaders
Ability to build and lead high performing IT natural teams focused around driving greater business value and recognised across Shell as doing so
Resilience, courage and the willingness to challenge and manage business expectations


Personal Attributes:

• Experience with one or more of the following:


US power markets and protocols
Power plant systems (OSI Monarch, OSISoft PI and PI Vision)
Power plant data communications and infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)


• Strong leader and team player. Able to motivate, collaborate, proactively communicate and share understanding and experience within a team.

• Knowledge and experience working in Agile or Product Delivery Team models.

• Understanding of CICD concepts and how to apply those principles and techniques.

• Keeps up-to-date knowledge of the power industry

• Capable of taking a “fit for purpose” view on process and delivery. Able to eliminate waste and focus on business value delivery.

• Comfortable talking to business users and can translate business needs into tangible user stories or requirements

• Clear communicator and able to work in a multicultural/lingual environment

• Uses best practice analysis techniques but can change approach according to conflicting timelines/risks involved

• Uses initiative and owns their deliverables end-to-end

• Brings ideas to the table, is inquisitive and excited by new technology

• Used to working in a flexible, independent manner on a mixture of small unstructured and large structured items

Company description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

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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