Power Business Management Specialist

Where you fit in

Shell Energy Europe & Africa (SE-EA) is part of Shell Trading & Supply organisation with a focus on gas and power markets. The European power business is a highly dynamic and challenging environment, which requires SE-EA to continuously find new and innovative product offerings to be able to grow its portfolio. This role will be part of European Power Portfolio team located in London and reporting into the Power Business Manager. The team supports the power business to ensure the right foundations are in place to meet its strategic objectives. The role will work with Power Trading, Origination and wider support functions to develop and lead change projects to enhance the power businesses capabilities. The role requires strong knowledge and expertise in European markets, as well as experience of delivering strategic and operational enhancements to a trading business.

What’s the role?

The primary accountabilities of the Business Management Specialist are:

Change Initiatives

• Identify and implement strategic initiatives to advance the power capabilities, including but not limited to market access, platform build out, and delivery of strategic initiatives as set by the Power LT
• Support on the development of standardized products across the Power Business Development sphere
• Lead on projects to identify the impact of regulatory change, and oversee the implementation of changes to business capabilities as required
• Be able to contribute high quality, shared understanding of market opportunities, trends, and value potential

Operational Excellence

• Identify and Drive Life of a Deal performance improvements across the Power Business including the interface to all Power businesses across Shell to drive towards a fully automated Integrated Power Business
• Champion Operational Excellence, and along with IT and the Functions, alleviate current pain points and look to make the LoaD more efficient, including via the use of digital solutions
• Champion the use of data and KPIs to monitor performance and drive improvements.
• Work with the wider functions to streamline and enhance processes around KYC, Market Risk, Finance and settlements, embedding simplification and standardisation

Control & Business Support

• Work with SEEA Gas and EPT teams to drive simplification in process for new business development approvals while ensuring relevant controls are in place
• Partner with the control functions (BIA, Risk) to ensure risk control frameworks are understood and implemented effectively, as well as identifying opportunities to enhance controls
• Coordinate across the trading desks to ensure control frameworks are understood and processes are kept up to date (KYC, regulatory reporting etc.)

What we need from you

• Strong background in European power markets, with a good knowledge of trading, PPAs and flex contracts
• Significant experience in commercial or operational roles within the European power trading or the origination sphere
• Practical experience across the deal lifecycle with a solid understanding of controls

Skills and Attributes

• Proactive approach and mind set to propose and drive improvement and changes
• Experience and appreciation of purposeful collaboration, working with a range of stakeholders to drive meaningful change
• Ability to independently structure and lead change projects from initial scoping through to delivery
• Expertise to analyse business problems within a trading environment, and identify suitable solutions
• Scalability & Robustness: drive step change in these facets of business performance   

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.