Commodities Business Analyst / Project Manager – C2C

Engelhart • Houston, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Engelhart is seeking an experienced and versatile Corp-to-Corp BA/PM to join its Business Change function. This role is crucial for a multi-year cross-company transformation program focused on changing the core technology architecture and implementing a new operating model. The position will involve coordinating US change initiatives across Power & Gas, driving process transformation, and integrating the recent acquisition of Trailstone. The BA/PM will collaborate with stakeholders across front, middle, and back office to analyze current processes, design future-state processes, and identify technology-enabled solutions, including automation and AI. This is a business-led role acting as a trusted partner to drive the company's change agenda. The role requires some travel between Houston and Stamford offices, with potential for international travel. This is a long-term C2C position with the possibility of transitioning to a permanent role.

Requirements

• Several years of experience in a Project Manager or Business Analyst role within the energy trading sector.
• Subject matter expertise in US power & gas.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and shaping problems before solutions are defined.
• Desire to actively contribute to shaping how business change is delivered.
• Strong all-round change capabilities with an ability to think strategically as well as dive into details.
• Strong understanding of US Power & Gas trading and operations, particularly physical and structured products such as gas transportation and storage, LNG, physical power, Load, PPAs, Battery tolling agreements.
• Strong understanding of commodities operations, particularly middle and back office functions (e.g. trade lifecycle, scheduling, settlements, P&L).
• Proven experience analysing and redesigning business processes in complex, cross-functional, global environments.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, constructively challenging assumptions while building trust and alignment.
• Experience working with technology-enabled change, including automation and AI.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, actionable solutions.
• Curious and improvement-oriented, with a natural inclination to ask “why” and “what could be better”.

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to operating model or target architecture design.
• Experience shaping AI strategy or identifying opportunities to embed AI into business processes to improve efficiency, controls, or insight generation.

Responsibilities

• Act as a project manager across multiple change initiatives, including coordinating across multiple teams.
• Partner with stakeholders across front office, middle office and back office teams to understand current-state processes, pain points and constraints.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to challenge existing ways of working and support teams in defining a clear, forward-thinking future state.
• Lead process analysis and redesign activities, especially with operations teams.
• Identify opportunities to drive the operating model into the future, especially enabled by technology, data, automation or AI.
• Act as a bridge between business teams and delivery functions, especially technology, ensuring that business needs and outcomes remain central.
• Contribute to portfolio management of change initiatives, helping to prioritise work and align improvements with strategic objectives.
• Support the development of Engelhart’s change capability by introducing project management and analysis best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed