Job Family Group:
Worker Type:
Posting Start Date:
Business unit:
Experience Level:
Job Description:
Join us at Shell and seize the opportunity to make a global impact, driving change and generating value across diverse business lines and geographical locations. As a Project Manager, you will have a challenging and fulfilling experience in a fast-paced environment, where you will be able to contribute to our mission while growing both personally and professionally.
Where you fit in
As a member of the Trading & Supply Program and Project Management (PPM) Capability Center at Shell, 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. 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.
What’s the role
As a Project Manager, you are expected to plan, control, and execute a project or set of related projects to meet identified business needs and deliver business value, through acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality. You will also lead medium-to-large projects of moderate-to-high complexity and risk. As a program and project management professional at Shell, you are also a leader and are required to continuously develop your leadership behaviours in terms of authenticity, growth, collaboration, and performance.
Further roles & responsibilities include the following:
- Plan, execute, monitor, control, and close all aspects of the project lifecycle adhering to the Shell Project Delivery Framework (PDF) methodology and other standards
- Quickly build and leverage relationships with sponsors and key stakeholders and understand their priorities. Resolve conflict and deliver tough messages with grace, up to and including VPs
- Build and roll out new products and services that meet the objectives set by the Decision Review Board, keeping to the time, cost, quality parameters set
- Deliver within-programme benefits to the function or business, delivering value from an early stage
- Motivate and lead the project team through periods of uncertainty, while recommending barriers to be removed so that the team can complete its objectives while managing pressure
- Create and deliver relevant and impactful communications for diverse audiences (executives, consumers, staff across a business or function)
- Focus and motivate project teams to remain resilient after setbacks and to recover performance
- Recommend taking calculated risks and apply judgment at a project or workstream level to make timely decisions that will maximize value
- Recommend changes to balance execution efficiency with risk mitigation, value delivery, cost, and quality
- Understand programme or project goals and business context at all stages of the lifecycle, and particularly when responding to challenges and change. Recommend acceptable courses of action where appropriate
- Execute the given methodology for the programme or project to maximise delivery effectiveness
- Execute the required governance approach defined by the Decision Review Board; and
- Support the leadership of the project’s natural team, ensuring that the project team collaborates effectively with business IT, the impacted teams, wider stakeholders both internally and externally, recommending resolutions to issues such as financing, risk, resourcing, integrated planning and long-term support and management of any resulting products and services
What we need from you
We are keen to hear from candidates who possess the following skill set:
- Extensive experience in IT Project Management
- Program and project delivery expertise in waterfall delivery frameworks, including Agile delivery experience
- Good understanding and experience of the various Agile frameworks
- Experience planning and leading of Agile projects and educating stakeholders and others involved while managing a project
- Regulatory experience - experience delivering GDPR, complying with Critical Network Infrastructure legislations, and global Binding Corporate Rules
- Domain knowledge and skills in Power Trading, European Electricity Markets, and the end-to-end lifecycle for these domains is highly advantageous
- Agile certifications/trainings are preferred
- Experience in Agile tooling (ex -VSTS)
- Exhibiting servant leadership behaviour, empowerment and increasing transparency that enables self-organization of teams
- Professional skills, such as proficient leadership and communication skills, excellent planning and delivery skills and a good problem solver
- Professional certifications related to project management (e.g., PMP (preferred) or Prince 2 Practitioner)
- Demonstrated learning agility in ambiguous and unfamiliar situations
- Familiar with and able to adhere to project management methodologies and tools
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills - including experience coaching stakeholders
- Experience in leading a distributed team
- Entrepreneurial skills, such as a business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling, stakeholder management, and enabling value creation
-
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Shell started operations in the United Kingdom more than 110 years ago. Since then, we have grown into a leading innovative Oil & Energy company that rewards its employees by investing heavily in their careers and learning. Our people are our greatest asset, and our commitment to your career will see you thrive in a work environment that offers an industry-leading development program. Shell has a key role to play in helping meet the UK’s growing energy demand, whilst using innovative technologies to develop cleaner energy. We are the largest FTSE 100 company in the UK by market capitalization and make a significant contribution to the UK economy. Shell employs some 6,400 skilled staff as well as many contractors.
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.
DISCLAIMER:
68 jobs found