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Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Houston, Texas 77002
Duration: 06 Months Contract
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Job Description:
Execution PM - Structured delivery, risk & dependencies

What a strong PM candidate looks like for this project (hiring-manager lens)
A strong candidate for this role should look like a delivery PM who is comfortable running a technically dense, enterprise change programme with heavy dependencies on environments, vendors, and testing. I would prioritise someone who has led platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programmes in which infrastructure readiness, software licensing, technical SMEs, test coordination, and business communication all had to move in lockstep.

The strongest fit is likely someone who can:
turn an ambiguous "50/50 estimate" into disciplined execution through structured governance, milestones, RAID management, and crisp decision escalation;
coordinate deeply technical teams without needing to be the architect, especially across environment, DBA, application, custom code, and test workstreams;
manage external/vendor dependencies well, especially where licence delivery, release notes, product roadmap clarity, and demo/education sessions with the vendor influence timing and stakeholder confidence;
handle execution under constrained capacity, including explicit prioritisation of BAU versus change, and explain trade-offs credibly to senior stakeholders;
translate a technical smoke test into executive decisions: whether to progress, pause, re-scope, or sequence follow-on capability work.
Drive prioritisation decisions and alignment with broader upgrade strategy
Provide concise executive updates with clear risks, decisions required, and next steps
Demonstrate ETRM experience, preferably Endur
Demonstrate knowledge of the Trading & Supply landscape

Roles and Responsibilities:
Agree and deliver programmes, projects, and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk, and benefit, within Shell's standards and controls framework. Proactively analyse variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments. Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action. Engage internal and external stakeholders, e.g, users/customers/suppliers, to benefit from the delivered products, services, and changes. Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes and maximise benefits. Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders' decisions are timely and effective. Mobilise and lead teams with 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 and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk, and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams. Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements, and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual. Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed, and delivered.

Mandatory skills:
Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50. Agile & waterfall methodology. Domain knowledge, e.g., Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication, and resilience. stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.

Optional skills:
Business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling
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