Job Title: Execution PM – Structured delivery, risk & dependencies
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: 06 Months
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