Overview
We are recruiting a dynamic and high performing Project Delivery Manager to drive the execution of the Crude business strategy through the effective integration, optimisation and governance of end to end performance project delivery. This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact within the T&S Crude business, supporting an ambitious growth agenda in a fast paced, commercially driven environment where disciplined delivery, cross functional coordination and value realisation are critical to success.
Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of global Crude Trading transformation initiatives, including business growth, new market entry, future state operating model changes and other strategic projects.
- Manage and govern complex, multi disciplinary projects and programmes across Commercial teams, ensuring alignment to Crude and T&S strategic priorities.
- Apply project management disciplines to deliver commitments within agreed time, cost and quality parameters, focusing on value realisation.
- Lead initiatives or projects to enhance enablers and remove blockers.
- Partner with VPs and Regional Trading Managers to understand transformation aspirations and future state vision, shaping delivery plans that support strategic execution.
- Develop and embed effective communication, change and engagement strategies, including internal sites, briefings and digital content, to drive sustained business adoption.
- Conduct post implementation reviews, capture lessons learned and embed continuous improvement into future initiatives.
- Ensure robust delivery governance, development, maintenance and completeness of required documentation across the full project lifecycle.
- Lead and deliver, in collaboration with cross functional and cross organisational teams, trading specific and selected global improvement initiatives aligned to T&S imperatives across HSSE, risk management and value.
- Drive internal organisational discipline ensuring all business delivery supported by the Crude COO team follows the delivery life cycle in accordance with the Project governance approach of Crude.
- Lead and project manage complex strategic business initiatives and impacts from market externalities including tax, compliance and regulatory changes.
- Act as a centre of excellence with deep knowledge of crude business to deliver complex business projects from inception to post execution activities.
- Manage internal stakeholder relationships with other T&S organisations.
- Support wider team people development and learning in Crude.
Qualifications
- Deep Trading & Supply experience (strongly preferred).
- Proven track record in project management or process leadership involving single or cross business strategic projects (new market entry, book structure build, etc.) through the full project life cycle.
- Team management experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management, working collaboratively with business stakeholders and SMEs, Regulatory Affairs, Risk and Compliance functions, finance and Tax.
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI or Qlik.
- Strong leveraging of AI to deliver efficiency and creativity to project works.
- Knowledge of Energy Trading Risk Management (ETRM) systems & SAP.
- Leadership, discipline and self motivated with a strong drive to success.
- Demonstrates courage and determination to challenge the status quo, constructively influencing senior leaders and stakeholders while maintaining trust based relationships and effective outcomes.
- Strong collaboration and integration skills, operating effectively across multiple interfaces.
- Applies a structured and disciplined approach to project and delivery governance, ensuring frameworks are embedded consistently across business delivery.
- Possesses working knowledge of Group and T&S carbon management frameworks, including methodologies to track emissions and support regulatory reporting across multiple regimes (e.g. UK ETS, EU ETS, Fuel EU Maritime) and understands their implications for trading and business delivery.
- Demonstrates strong problem solving and analytical capability, with the ability to dive into detailed operational processes to diagnose root causes and elevate key themes and insights that drive structural improvements, scalability and end to end cost to serve optimisation.
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase.
- Access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
- Opportunity to work in an inclusive, diverse and psychologically safe environment.
- Work with experienced colleagues and unique expertise.
- Advanced technology, trends and practices in the energy transition.
- Support for work life balance and personal growth.
Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.