CTRM Programme Manager

at  Trafigura

Main Purpose:
As the Programme Manager for a key Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) system, you will own the programme planning and oversee all activities associated to ensure the programme achieves its goals. This role involves managing an in-house developed application, coordinating across multiple project teams, and ensuring integration with other programmes of work in a large multi-application landscape.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Applied Math, Business Management or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years’ of IT experience with a focus on IT projects in the commodity trading domain
• Proven 5+ years’ experience of managing large scale programmes of work
• Experience and strong understanding of commodity trading processes, including physical and financial trading, risk management, logistics and back office processes is a positive
• Demonstrable experience improving internal IT processes to increase efficiency
• Experience in other roles within IT (engineering, architecture, quality assurance, business analysis) is a positive
• Strong proficiency in programme and project management methodologies and tools
• Familiarity with key technology principles, including architecture, technology strategy, technology operations, software engineering and continuous improvements, with experience leading cross-functional distributed teams in a dynamic multi-cultural environment
• Demonstrable experience of interacting with mid & senior-level management to influence tactical and strategic decisions
• Ability to exercise judgment and evaluate options under circumstances not covered by procedures or precedents
• Proven expertise in delivering concurrent activities with short-term deadlines
• Proven ability to independently solve problems and must be willing to take ownership of issues and drive them through to completion
• Strong sense of customer focus
• Excellent teamwork skills and an ability to influence and engage others
• High Level of professionalism, energy and sense of urgency to make things happen
• Comfortable presenting information in virtual and in-person environments (both written and oral)
• Ability to apply conceptual solutions, with a pragmatic approach, in multiple functional areas, to achieve business objectives

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning and Alignment
• Continually ensure alignment between organisational goals and objectives and the programme objectives
• Programme Coordination and Management
• Own the programme plan
• Oversee all activities associated with the programme to ensure the programme achieves its goals
• Manage programme timelines and deliverables
• Coordinate interdependent projects, whether they are part of the programme or external to the programme, to ensure all dependencies are understood and appropriately managed
• Facilitate collaboration among project teams
• Manage programme risk and coordinate corrective measures
• Identify and manage programme adherence to standards and governance
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Manage the PMO team and ensure all programme activities are monitored and the programme plan updated
• Identify, measure and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Resolve problems and delays in the programme
• Continually look at how internal processes can be optimised to improve programme performance, reducing time to market, improving quality, reducing costs and improving value delivery to business stakeholders
• Manage the programme budget
• Communication and Stakeholder Management
• Design the communication strategy and manage stakeholder communications
• Report on programme status and performance to executive team and senior business leaders
• Communicate with project managers
• Manage the user survey process, ensuring feedback from all users is incorporated into the programme
• Project Manage the Product Management team
• Act as project manager for the product management team, covering the functional architects, product managers and product owners on the programme, working to ensure key analysis and strategy deliverables are properly managed through to completion
• Leadership and Team Coordination:
• Continually look at how internal processes can be optimised to reduce time to market, improve quality, reduce costs and improve value delivery to business stakeholders

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships

• Product Management
• Delivery Leads
• Release Managers
• Senior Project Managers
• Delivery Project Management
• Quality Assurance and User Experience Teams
• Application Support
• Senior Business Leaders and Executives

Department
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 applications using an innovative architecture to support business growth across the full range of business lines and geographies, and to enable the sharing of systems across different businesses. The programme team is dispersed across multiple locations, supporting both business and development hubs.

Reporting Structure

• Reporting directly to the Global Product Manager

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status

• Strategic Planning and Alignment
• Continually ensure alignment between organisational goals and objectives and the programme objectives
• Programme Coordination and Management
• Own the programme plan
• Oversee all activities associated with the programme to ensure the programme achieves its goals
• Manage programme timelines and deliverables
• Coordinate interdependent projects, whether they are part of the programme or external to the programme, to ensure all dependencies are understood and appropriately managed
• Facilitate collaboration among project teams
• Manage programme risk and coordinate corrective measures
• Identify and manage programme adherence to standards and governance
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Manage the PMO team and ensure all programme activities are monitored and the programme plan updated
• Identify, measure and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Resolve problems and delays in the programme
• Continually look at how internal processes can be optimised to improve programme performance, reducing time to market, improving quality, reducing costs and improving value delivery to business stakeholders
• Manage the programme budget
• Communication and Stakeholder Management
• Design the communication strategy and manage stakeholder communications
• Report on programme status and performance to executive team and senior business leaders
• Communicate with project managers
• Manage the user survey process, ensuring feedback from all users is incorporated into the programme
• Project Manage the Product Management team
• Act as project manager for the product management team, covering the functional architects, product managers and product owners on the programme, working to ensure key analysis and strategy deliverables are properly managed through to completion
• Leadership and Team Coordination:
• Continually look at how internal processes can be optimised to reduce time to market, improve quality, reduce costs and improve value delivery to business stakeholder