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Context - Shell Energy Europe & Africa (SE-EA) - "More and cleaner energy solutions"

Shell Energy Europe is a Trading business that provides businesses with advanced and high-value solutions for energy assets and commodities, including natural gas, power and environmental products. As part of the global network of Shell Trading, we are active across a broad range of European markets and all stages of the energy value chain from production, transport and storage to trading, sales and customer service.

Digital solutions underpin our business and create competitive advantage. We're looking for talented people to join the SE-EA Power Trading technology team. If you can bring strategic focus, thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about the energy transition we would love to hear from you.

Where you fit in

You will be part of the 'European Power' team within SE-EA as an 'IT Advisor', which is a role that delivers the IT strategy and prioritising and launching new initiatives that maximize value and growth. You will be responsible for framing complex business problems, establishing key value drivers, solution options and priorities then bringing teams together to build or buy software solutions. It is ideally suited to someone who brings knowledge of the Power Trading business, has IT delivery experience, thinks strategically and can work in a fast-paced environment. Knowledge of Power Generation technologies, especially battery storage are a significant advantage.

The 'European Power' team in Shell Energy Europe is a rapidly expanding team setup in 2018 to help the business grow and expand Power Trading and Renewable & Flexible Power Generation. The European Power business's core focus is the trading and optimisation of electricity within Europe and it is enabled through world class technology and automation. Based across London and Bangalore, the team is responsible for building and supporting the world class IT platform required to facilitate connections to power generation and storage, and the complex, real-time needs of trading power.

What’s the role?

The IT Advisor – European Power supports the Shell Energy Europe Power IT Manager (ITM) & European Power Portfolio Managers (PPMs) to identify, realize, and protect value across the IT business portfolio. The role drives rigor and discipline in the opportunity realization process to drive technology and data opportunities across European Power. The role serves as a vertical integrator across Power Generation (Cleaner, renewable and/or flexible generation and storage), Power Trading & Optimisation (Flexibility and complex risk management solutions) and Sales & Marketing (B2B and B2C energy and integrated customer solutions) bringing together how solutions work across the full business lifecycle.

The IT Advisor demonstrates understanding of business vision, strategy and KPIs, balancing these with knowledge about the Enterprise IT vision, strategy, and prevailing technology standards. Day-to-day the IT Advisor demonstrates curiosity about commercial problems and displays the requisite behaviors to drive Portfolio fulfilment of target KPIs. Key components of the role include:

• Stakeholder Management


• Integrated Business and IT Strategy


• Value Generation & Protection


• IT Portfolio Management


• Business Intelligence


• Innovation

Stakeholder Management

• Supports the ITM & PPM with the management of a network of business and cross-functional IT stakeholders, building and sustaining working relationships


• Contributes to senior business stakeholder engagements by supporting the ITM & PPM to inform, influence, and challenge with data-driven insights


• Applies a commercial mindset and an IT practitioner lens to working closely and collaboratively with business stakeholders (GM level) under ITM direction


• Understands the importance of working across organisational boundaries to enable value and utilizes the business facing natural team to align IT in maximizing dollars invested


• Builds rapport consciously, listens actively, and tells compelling stories; co-creates where necessary, contracts correctly, and challenges constructively across business, IT and cross functional stakeholders alike

Integrated IT and Business Strategy

• Owns the evergreening of the IT Strategic Plan for European Power


• Understands business KPIs and IT’s strategic role in their fulfilment


• Explores commercial and customer problems, determining possible technology and data investment or optimisation opportunities across the IT business portfolio


• Understands the Enterprise IT strategy and associated standards for technology compliance and risk management


• Demonstrates understanding of business change impacts from technology and data adoption and creates appropriate responses and mitigations during planning. Value Generation & Protection


• Supports the ITM & PPM in the end-to-end management of opportunity identification and realization, including associated demand and value generation processes


• Contributes to the Value Funnel of the European IT business portfolio, independently owning and maturing individual opportunities


• Creates robust business cases and understands how to calculate value, assess benefits, and determine risk


• Supports the ITM & PPM to ensure that value data is correctly represented, managed and reported in IT business management tools


• Contributes to the European Power Portfolio’s calendar of PIRs by consolidating outputs and learnings that improve the health and performance of future technology and data investments

Business Intelligence

• Understands the vision, strategy, and KPIs of their IT business portfolio


• Understands the value chain, customer journeys, and associated touchpoints of the IT business portfolio


• Understands industry trends, the dynamic competitor landscape, and prevailing behaviors


• Uses external insight to contextualize work and approaches to ITM & PPM, business stakeholders and the business-facing natural team


• Contributes to compelling thought leadership about technology and data adoption and exploitation

IT Portfolio Management

• Owns and manages areas of demand, working closely with business stakeholders to understand and capture detailed business requirements


• Works to align the business facing natural team around elements of the IT Strategic Plan for optimisation of portfolio investments, reduction of operational costs, and management of risk. Innovation


• Demonstrates art of the possible from technology and data, experimenting agreed prototypes to prove value


• Demonstrates curiosity about new and emerging technologies, actively seeking to understand how to commercialise products and services


• Champions prototyping and piloting of new technologies as a better way of demonstrating business value, else failing fast and applying learnings to future opportunity development


• Champions use and visualization of data to drive commercial conversations and inform decision-making


• Champions and applies new methods and ways of working to optimize organisational performance

What we need from you

This role requires deep/detailed knowledge of European Power Trading & Optimisation processes and how technology serves as an enabler:

• Deal structuring and Origination: Technology impacts/implications associated with different deal types, e.g., PPAs, hedging & imbalance products


• Detailed understanding of the role of quantitative analysis and data science in European Power markets


• Front Office/Trading: How (vendor provided and custom built) software supports front office to monitor market conditions, positions and forecasts to trade both intraday and down the curve. Knowledge of different European execution venues (Exchanges/Brokers/Auctions) that provide roots to market


• Market & Credit Risk Management


• Physical Power Operations: Systems/processes that underpin scheduling, nominations and balancing regimes across the different European markets – TSO/DSO interactions


• Back Office: Understand the intricacies/complexities of post trade processes, i.e., settlements and accounting
  
  
  
  • Commercial Mindset: Applies the business lens consistently by understanding business strategies, priorities, and challenges, as well as Power industry trends, competitor landscape (including new entrants), and associated behaviors
  
  
  • Technology: Able to tell a compelling story and talk relevantly about the commercial opportunities possible from adoption and/or exploitation of technology and data in maximizing value across the Power value chain. Able to tell a compelling story about the direction of travel and the role of “Enterprise IT” (usage of cloud-based technology) in maintaining secure and reliable operations
  
  
  • Extreme Data/Digitally Literacy: Demonstrates knowledge to all stakeholders about new and emerging technology products and services, understanding their opportunity to disrupt and generate new business models, value outcomes, and processes
  
  
  • Agile: Challenges the status quo and adopts ways of working that foster co-creation and collaboration across stakeholders
  
  
  • Prototyping: Demonstrates business value potential from technology in real time, being able to stand up technology experiments and pilots when required
  
  
  • Externalization: Seeks external sources of insight to inform opportunity identification and development
  
  

Successful applicant will work/have worked for a leading Consultancy and have direct experience advising/implementing technology solution for European Energy clients. Alternatively, directly for an integrated Energy trading business with a significant European Power market focus.

Company Description

Shell started operations in the United Kingdom more than 110 years ago. Since then, we have grown into a leading innovative Oil & Energy company that rewards its employees by investing heavily in their careers and learning. Our people are our greatest asset, and our commitment to your career will see you thrive in a work environment that offers an industry-leading development programme. When your ideas travel, Shell will benefit, and innovation will thrive. Shell has a key role to play in helping meet the UK’s growing energy demand, whilst using innovative technologies to develop cleaner energy. We are the largest FTSE 100 company in the UK by market capitalisation and make a significant contribution to the UK economy. As well as processing 35% of the gas coming into the UK, we serve more than four million customers at our filling stations each week. Shell employs some 6,400 skilled staff as well as many contractors.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell.

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 oil, gas and renewable energy to meet demand, 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, 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’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through 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’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.


• We’re 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 finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.