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Associate Project Manager
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Associate Project Manager

The Role

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.

Where you fit

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.

What’s the role?

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.

Other Responsibilities include:

  • Plan, execute, monitored, 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 $1M, with up to 10 team members;

  • Participating in the development of the IT infrastructure standards, methods, guidelines, techniques, tools and control structures, particularly in the area of IT Project Management.

  • Quickly build and leverage relationships with the Programme or Project Manager and other stakeholders and understand their priorities.  Resolve conflict where possible and raise issues with the Programme or Project Manager;

  • Agree and build an agreed list of deliverables as defined by the Programme or Project Manager;

  • Support the team through periods of uncertainty to help complete its objectives and raise risks and issues early;

  • Create and deliver relevant and impactful communications for project or workstream stakeholders;

  • Support the project team to remain resilient after setbacks and to recover performance;

  • Understand the risks in delivering the team’s work and report effectively on them;

  • Understand how execution efficiency interacts with risk mitigation, value delivery, cost, quality and benefits;   

  • Understand programme or project goals and business context at all stages of the lifecycle, and particularly when responding to challenges and change;

  • Execute the chosen methodology for the project or workstream to maximise delivery effectiveness;

  • Execute the required reporting approach defined by the Programme or Project Manager; and

  • Support programme or project leadership to enable the team to collaborate effectively with business IT, the impacted businesses, wider stakeholders both internally and externally, resolving specific issues as directed.

Leadership Skills

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 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 to 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.

What We Need from You

  • 5+ years in IT with 3+ years of experience in managing the work of others, within a project, workstream or business operation;

  • Projects or workstreams, with business or technical change.  Impacts a single function or team;

  • Working towards project management certification such as PMP® and agile certification

  • SAP Infrastructure Project Manager is accountable for planning and delivering small to medium IT infrastructure projects, to the timescales and budget agreed upon with the customer, using Shell project management standards and processes.

  • You will mainly work with SAP to develop new services, Proof of concepts delivering projects that typically include end-user computing, hosting &storage and telecoms with our infrastructure service providers(HP, T-Systems & AT&T)

  • This will utilise your skills in project Management, Vendor Management, and Benefits Management Change Management. On a daily basis, you collaborate with a range of stakeholders including Shell business managers, service providers, Portfolio, OLMs, Architects, the Service Management team and onshore & offshore suppliers. Your team as well as your scope is global and remote in nature. Requires SAP, S4 HANA, ECC, SCP/BTP, Project Management, Agile and DevOps experience.

  • Agree and deliver a body of work, organized 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 a 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 happens 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 the 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.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global energy company where we work towards powering progress through more and cleaner energy solutions. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future. In India Shell has its business footprint in Information Technology, Projects & Technology, Finance Operations, Integrated Gas, Downstream & Upstream spread across more than 7 main locations.

An innovative place to work

Join us and you’ll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently, everyone at Shell does their part.

An inclusive place to work 

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we are nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…

We are creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there. We are striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you in finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

As an equal opportunity employer, combining our ideas through a creative, collaborative environment and global operations – we have developed and will continue to nurture a unique workplace with an impressive range of benefits to ensure that joining Shell is an inspired and rewarding career choice for everyone.

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