Senior IT Project Manager

Job Title: IT Project Management

Location: Houston, TX - 77002 (HYBRID)

Duration: 06 Months of Contract (Strong possibility of extension or conversion to a permanent)

Job Description:

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 environment, vendor, and test dependencies. I would prioritize someone who has led platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programmes where 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 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-Product, 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

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Agree and deliver programmes, projects, and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within the Client's standards and controls framework.
• Proactively analyze variances aProductst plan and trends threatening agreed Product, 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.
• Mobilize 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.

Mandatory skills:

• Program and project delivery up to ***m 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
• Project Assurance & Compliance - Skill, Project Planning & Tracking - Skill, Project Governance – Skill
• Execution PM - Structured delivery, risk & dependencies