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IT Project Execution Manager Trading and Supply

Engineers And Constructors International

Job Location:

Houston, TX - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 90 - 155

Posted: 16 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 13 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Join the ECI Groups Professional Technical Services Network as a contract IT Project Execution Manager - Trading and Supply. This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with an estimated start date of July 1st.Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.

About the Role
The IT Project Execution Manager is comfortable running a technically dense enterprise change program with heavy environment vendor and test dependencies. Must have led platform upgrades major release validation or large-scale regression/smoke-test programs where infrastructure readiness software licensing technical SMEs test coordination and business communication all had to move in lockstep.

The ideal candidate will:

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-scope 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 programs projects and workstreams to agreed time cost quality risk and benefit within Shells standards and controls framework.

Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope time cost and quality commitments.
Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
Engage internal and externalstakeholders 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 behaviour changes and maximize benefits.
Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
Mobilize and lead teams with a mixture ofstaffand 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 project and business constraints.
Assess programrisks and evaluatetrade-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 $10m 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

Please Note: The ECI Group uses AI-assisted tools in the early stages of application review with all decisions guided by human oversight and fully compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ECI Groups applicable data protection policies and Privacy Notice.

Required Experience:

Manager

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