About the job

, United Kingdom

Job Family Group

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type

Regular

Posting Start Date

December 17, 2021

Business Unit

Projects and Technology

Experience Level

Experienced Professionals

Job Description

Where you fit in?

As a member of the Program and Project Management (P&PM) 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, whilst delivering a world class business case that has a strong societal license to operate. 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.

Project Managers plan, execute, and control a project or set of related projects to meet identified business requirements and deliver business value, through acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, risk, quality and benefits.

What is the role?

You Will Be Expected To

Agree and deliver a body of work, organised into programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit profiles, delivered within Shell’s standards and controls framework;
Proactively analyse variances against plan to assess trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments. Identify signs that a project may be at risk and take appropriate action;
Engage internal and external stakeholders such as users, customers or suppliers to fully benefit from the delivered products, services and changes;
Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes in order to maximise benefits;
Align expectations and ensure that the decision-making of stakeholders happen in a timely and effective manner;
Mobilise and lead teams composed of 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 as they are encountered and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and ultimately benefit, continuously managing the business cases of constituent projects and workstreams;
Ensure that all deliverables, whether software, hardware, processes, products or business change are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual; and
Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.

As your career in Shell progresses, you will be exposed to opportunities both across our diverse lines of business and in our business IT and enterprise IT functions, as well as progressively more challenging assignments that develop your capabilities.

Dimensions & Accountabilities

Plan, execute, monitor, control, and close all aspects of the project lifecycle adhering to the Shell Project Delivery Framework (PDF) methodology and other standards at a scale of up to $10M, with up to 50 team members;
Quickly build and leverage relationships with senior sponsors (GM and above) and key stakeholders and understand their priorities. Resolve conflict and deliver tough messages with grace, up to and including EVPs;
Synthesize new products and services that balance the needs of diverse stakeholders with a compelling business case for a function or Line of Business;
Deliver within-programme benefits to the Group, delivering value from an early stage.
Focus and motivate and lead the programme team through periods of uncertainty, while removing barriers 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 all Lines of Business).
Motivate and lead programme team through periods of uncertainty, while removing barriers so that the team can complete its objectives while managing pressure.
Take calculated risks and apply judgment at a programme 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 goals and business context at all stages of the programme lifecycle, and particularly when responding to challenges and change. Recommend acceptable courses of action where appropriate.
Select appropriate methodologies across the programme or project to maximise delivery effectiveness of each project.
Select a best-practice governance approach that works across the function or Line of Business.
Support the leadership of the cross-organisational natural team, ensuring that delivery teams collaborate effectively with business IT, the impacted businesses, wider stakeholders both internally and externally, resolving issues such as financing, risk, resourcing, integrated planning and long-term management of any resulting products and services; and Mentor more junior members of staff, lead improvement initiatives, and execute assurance reviews.

What we need from you?

The Core Competences Required For This Role Are

Extensive experience in IT with substantial experience in establishing and delivering progressively larger and more complex projects.
Typical Programme Complexity: Highly complex programmes operating using multiple methodologies, operating over more than one financial year and impacting an entire line of business, with components of business restructuring or operating model changes.
Typical Programme Size: Up to 50 people, with teams in multiple countries.
Degree educated with evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning.
Programme management certification, ideally PMP® and agile certification.

Shell is looking for Program and Project Management professionals with proficiency across the following five key dimensions:

Program and project delivery skills in both agile and waterfall methodologies;
Domain knowledge and skills, such as Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR, and Capital Project lines of business and functions;
Technology skills, such as cloud, mobile, software-as-a-service, and digital platforms;
Professional skills, such as leadership, communication and resilience; and
Entrepreneurial skills, such as a business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling, stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.

Leadership Skills

Required

As a program and project management professional in Shell, you are also a leader in the natural team and are required to continuously develop your leadership behaviours

Live our values and goal zero – We do the right thing with respect to our values, safety and people.
Maximise our performance – We focus on priorities, seek improvements and work together across teams to close our gap to potential and deliver bottom line commercial results.
Grow trust in Shell – We work outside in and build strong long-term relationships with customers, partners, and external parties and make a positive contribution to society.
Engage & inspire – We engage everyone through our connected purpose and inspire people and teams be their best through development, coaching and honest feedback.
Learner mindset – We have a shared belief that everyone can grow their ability, learn from mistakes & successes and speak up openly in a safe environment.

Disclaimer

Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Shell jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Before applying, you are advised to read our data protection policy. This policy describes the processing that may be associated with your personal data and informs you that your personal data may be transferred to Royal Dutch/Shell Group companies around the world. The Shell Group and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Shell. Anyone who demands such a fee is not an authorised Shell representative and you are strongly advised to refuse any such demand. Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Company: Shell

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Job Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Application Deadline: N/A

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