It Allegro Delivery Manager - Nat Gas & Power

Main Purpose:
• Lead the delivery management of project activities to implement Nat Gas & Power trading for Trafigura on the Allegro CTRM and other associated trading support systems. This responsibility can expand to include other commodities and applications.
• Take responsibility for the management and the successful delivery of all project elements to specified levels of time, budget and quality.
• Perform project planning; with the production of comprehensive project plans and documentation to enable projects to be managed against a clear set of defined deliverables and milestones. Monitor, measure and review project progress, adjusting project plans and implementing remedial plans and informing all relevant parties.
• Pro-active management of project dependencies be they within project, with other Trafigura IT teams and resources, business teams or external system and service providers
• To provide leadership on projects and manage those involved in the project by defining work and ensuring deadlines are understood and adhered to and that project objectives are clearly articulated and understood.
• To ensure project requirements and resource levels are fully supported and approved throughout the lifecycle of the project, including IT staffing, IT systems and professional services.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions with technical and business stakeholders and be the single point of contact for project delivery for items under management.
• Using Allegro application, business and service delivery knowledge an additional area of responsibility will be to review the Allegro support team and process that provides ongoing support for incidents, the activities of Allegro users and the production capability. The review will be to identify the current level of performance of the support service and identify areas of improvement. Having identified these and upon their action the responsibility will change to become a point of contact in Trafigura IT for high priority incidents and for regular oversight of the support service to monitor performance against service levels.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of large projects with distributed teams across multiple locations with in-house and external resources
• Formulate resource plans and high level implementation proposals for projects estimating project costs and planning delivery approach
• Creating and managing project plans and critiquing those put in place by delivery partners
• Performing project management activities across a range of projects and managing project governance via regular status reporting, RAID management and active stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle
• Establishing consensus for implementation decisions incorporating the need to deliver to time, budget and quality with an agreed level of risk
• Ensuring projects within responsibility follow Trafigura Trading IT standards for analysis, development, implementation, quality and functional & technical governance
• Working with business stakeholders to understand the drivers for changes and project work to ensure requirements are met and value achieved
• Where capacity allows lead with hands on analysis, configuration and testing to enable change
• Act as a point of escalation with projects for issues and work with the wider Trading IT organization for actions to resolve
• Provide regular project status and budget tracking for projects under responsibility to Trading IT management and input to planning of strategic initiatives and application roadmaps
• Provide ongoing oversight of the support service to ensure targets are attained and corrective actions taken when required.

Key Attitudes / Competencies:

• Delivery focus
• Team worker, mentorship of project resources
• Good communicator & engaging
• Ability to make decisions & thrive in a fast paced environment

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• At least 7 years of hands-on project management with Allegro, CTRM and complex financial systems.
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodology and how to implement project processes.
• Ability to direct and work collaboratively with a full range of IT resources (C-level, BA's, Developers, Project Managers, QA, Infrastructure experts) and business departments (users, managers and C-level.)
• Experience managing software development activity, package implementations and projects that are a combination of both
• Must have knowledge in some of the following areas:
  • Power physical and financial products, trading & risk management, front to back lifecycle
  • Environment product trading,
  • Natural Gas physical and financial products, front to back lifecycle, Operations (European and US models) & Risk Management.
  • Trade confirmation management, including term sheet and confirmation/contract production
  • Trade capture for physical commodity & derivative transactions
  • Methods of trading and credit risk mitigation (Documentary Letters of Credit etc.)

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience with delivering IT projects in the energy and/or commodities markets.

• Experience of implementing systems for Power trading is required.
• Experience of managing both in-house and external resources and with outsourced vendor partners is highly beneficial.
• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Understanding of Commodities, Logistics, Financing, Accounting or Derivatives is required.

Competencies :

• Strong oral and written communications with strong inter-personal skills to collaborate with vendor teams and global IT owners and business stakeholders with attention to micro level details.

• Must be acclimatized working and dealing with client managers / senior management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong change management skills, ability to manage several projects simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Capable of working in groups as well as independently.
• Professional management of employee relationships at all levels.
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Team player with an enthusiastic approach to fresh challenges

Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Trafigura is committed to building and maintaining world class IT applications and infrastructure. The Trading IT group directly supports the Trafigura trading business, and this business has started a far-reaching programme to enhance and improve its trading app