Project Manager (Trading & Supply) w/Endur (trading software) Experience

Delan Associates•Houston, TX

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Execution PM with a strong background in structured delivery, risk management, and dependency coordination for a technically dense, enterprise change program. The ideal candidate will have experience leading platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programs. This role requires the ability to manage technical teams, external vendors, and complex dependencies to ensure successful project execution and benefit realization within the Trading & Supply landscape, preferably with Endur (trading software) experience.

Requirements

Experience as a delivery PM comfortable running a technically dense, enterprise change programme with heavy environment, vendor and test dependencies.
Experience leading platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programmes.
Ability to coordinate deeply technical teams across environment, DBA, application, custom code and test workstreams.
Ability to manage external/vendor dependencies.
Experience handling execution under constrained capacity, including explicit prioritization of BAU versus change.
Ability to translate technical information into executive decisions.
Experience with structured governance, milestones, RAID management and decision escalation.
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.
Knowledge of Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital.
Leadership, communication and resilience.
Stakeholder management and enabling value creation.
ETRM experience, preferably Endur.
Knowledge of Trading & Supply landscape.

Nice To Haves

Business-value mindset
Critical thinking
Storytelling
Project Assurance & Compliance
Project Planning & Tracking
Project Governance

Responsibilities

Agree and deliver programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within the company's standards and controls framework.
Proactively analyze 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 behavior changes and maximize benefits.
Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are timely and effective.
Mobilise and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational 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.
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 license 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 prioritization 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 prioritization 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 Trading & Supply landscape.