Required Skills

• Understand the UK commercial trading strategies and contribute the technology and IT focus therein
• Manage the Business Change of the strategic projects including prioritization and scope management on behalf of the desk heads
• Program and Project Management of large IT projects.
• Accountable that IT delivers the projects within budget, time and quality/scope constraints – and to other variables as agreed with stakeholders and ensuring Business buy in and support
• Responsible for agreeing the correct project delivery methodology and governance within individual projects with all project stakeholders.
• Leads & motivates a team responsible for requirements gathering, business analysis, impact assessment, system design & specification, technical documentation, code delivery, system testing, UAT, implementation, business acceptance and handover to support teams including any infrastructure requests for the project being delivered by the IT outsourced partner
• Strong written and verbal communication ability
• Consultancy skills (eg workshop facilitation, presentation skills)
• Influencing skills (eg stakeholder management)
• Experience of multi million and multi-year IT program delivery in the energy sector