Portfolio Analyst- Product Trading

What is the Role?

Shell Trading and Supply is the world’s largest energy trader. It combines a global network of trading companies, industry-leading shipping and maritime capabilities, and an integrated network of supply and distribution activities to act as the central integrator for Shell. Shell’s trading capability, deep market knowledge, global portfolio and end-to-end integration within Shell create opportunities to deliver value for customers and for Shell across upstream, downstream, integrated gas and new energies. Through our main trading offices in London, Houston, Singapore, Dubai and Rotterdam we trade crude oil, natural gas, LNG, electricity, refined products, chemical feedstocks and environmental products. With more than 125 distribution terminals and hundreds of outside supply points in around 25 countries, our supply and distribution infrastructure is well positioned to make deliveries around the world. Trading is at the centre of Shell’s Energy Transition and Decarbonisation plans, working closely with New Energies and the wider business to develop lower carbon solutions, driven through technology and data. To accelerate our ambitious delivery goals, we are looking to expand our IDT portfolio management organisation team of portfolio analysts within Crude and Products Trading and Supply.

What We Need From You

As a portfolio analyst, you will support the Portfolio Manager through day‑to‑day portfolio analysis of business capabilities and technology to align application roadmaps and asset integrity demand. You will maintain and manage the health, risk and cost optimisation of all applications within the portfolio to ensure they continue to deliver value to the business capabilities that they support. Your specific focus will be on the ETRM ecosystem serving a global crude & products trading business, prioritising changes, coordinating releases and ensuring stable operations across the ETRM and adjacent connected applications and interfaces.

The portfolio analyst touches the whole spectrum of IT delivery – identifying and defining the business needs of users and stakeholders, guiding solution design to meet those needs in line with business and IT strategic roadmaps, ensuring seamless fit between processes, training and solutions, protecting and exploiting value realisation of product and information management investments, all in close alignment with the natural IT team. You will play a leadership role within the Business IT natural team through coaching, teaching and supporting other team members, participating in delivery team leadership discussions and acting as a technical focal point for the domain. Each portfolio analyst is an active participant in delivery activities based on their capabilities and the product / portfolio team needs.

• Influencing, helping shape, and ensuring all delivery preserves or aligns to the portfolio / product roadmap and strategies and data quality within ServiceNow.
• Developing and maintaining strong domain expertise with deep process, data, and tools knowledge within the product portfolio.
• Creating a collaborative and learner mindset environment to spread business/technical knowledge across IT delivery natural teams.
• In association with the IT support organisation, ensuring stability, integrity and performance of the operational environments and the realisation of identified improvement opportunities and requirements.
• Handing over knowledge to the IT support organisation to enable supportability of operational environments.
• Facilitating seamless integration with other product/application delivery teams to enable end‑to‑end delivery of services to the business.
• Initiating and driving the execution of complex enhancement activities.
• Building trusted partnerships across multiple stakeholders such as Business Interface Managers, business partners, suppliers, project/product team members, and the IT support organisation.
• Providing consultancy and occasionally leading initiatives to support operations in security, incident/problem management, change management and other run‑and‑maintain activities.
• Partnering with data and solution architects to ensure correct translation of specifications/design into high‑level design and technical specifications.
• Ensuring compliance with the design principles of simplification and standardisation.
• Supporting the development of training material.
• Evaluating the impact on the portfolio of new business imperatives and providing insights to the business necessary to optimise its application and services landscape through application‑to‑capability analysis.
• Executing annual and ad‑hoc appraisal of the portfolio technical health and end‑of‑life components.

What You Bring

• Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical degree.
• Proven years of IT experience working closely with development teams and the trading business.
• Significant years of experience in Trading, Supply or Logistics businesses, with deep knowledge of IT and the business landscape such as energy trading and risk management (ETRM).
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Committed to learning and staying abreast of internal and external trends and best practices.
• Capacity to cultivate and continuously expand expertise in a domain.
• Able to act as a focal point for a specialised area (technical or business), lead teams without formal authority, while managing multiple competing priorities.
• Expertise in one or more of the following: Business Analysis techniques, programming languages, software development life cycle management, and/or IT standards.
• Excellent communication skills, being comfortable interacting with and able to communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.
• Team player able to work effectively with all levels and parts of the business and IT organisation.
• Ability to work effectively in virtual, geographically dispersed, cross-cultural environments.
• Continuous improvement focus.

What We Offer

• You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a value‑led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance‑related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non‑birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.