Project Portfolio Manager

The UK Trading IT Solutions team is looking for an IT Project/Programme Manager to join us from July 2025. We are an agile team, practicing continuous development to support the Short Term Power Trading Business. We are looking for an ambitious player with a range of interpersonal and technical skills to support the digitalisation journey of Uniper in the UK.

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in diverse teams with great working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterised by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply, as well as pro-actively help to shape changes.

Your responsibilities include:

• Managing a portfolio of unrelated projects, including associated resources and budget.
• Managing the end-to-end delivery of IT change into the operational business.
• Creating and communicating a bold direction that inspires excellent results and performance.
• Focusing on key inputs for your business and delivering them with the right quality and in a timely fashion.
• Striving to accomplish more with less.
• Requiring energy trading experience, strategic and technical knowledge in leading international businesses, and successfully implementing change programs or strategies across multiple sites and countries.
• Managing year-on-year IT change CAPEX budget of £3 million and OPEX of £2 million.
• Leading a strong community of PMs, IT BAs, developers, and testers, ensuring oversight of resource management and planning.
• Defining the optimum target operating model, bespoke people strategies, and implementing the required programme for upskilling talent both on-site and remote locations serving our UK Trading portfolio.
• Managing a portfolio of technical projects and support for UK Trading systems and some German systems.
• Scanning, coordinating, and evaluating improvements to business processes via technical implementation through large transformation programs.
• Overseeing IT vendor-related contract agreements and commercial implications within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Creating value for our business via close collaboration with Business As Usual delivery and operational teams.
• Delivering the programme within budget, time, and quality constraints.
• Ensuring arrangements are in place within projects for business readiness to accept the delivered change, including training, communications, and any modifications to business processes and/or organisational design.
• Delivering UK trading projects, steering quality and performance.
• Managing and promoting a holistic quality control culture.
• Collaborating with IT project managers and functional leads including the GB Commercial group.

Your profile should include:

• Extensive experience in energy trading power (Preferred UK Power intraday and Day Ahead).
• University degree level qualification or equivalent in information technology, business, or engineering subjects would be desirable but not essential.
• Significant Energy Trading Risk Management systems experience.
• Significant experience leading projects and teams.
• Strong leadership in overseeing and steering diverse global teams, ensuring operational excellence and strategic growth.
• Proven leadership in managing international teams.
• Experience working with remote, offshore, and nearshore teams.
• Demonstrable experience in steering and practically working with a diverse range of international teams.
• Proven track record of capability development and people-first strategy.
• Proven track record and significant experience working in the Energy Trading IT industry.
• Fresh approach and positive can-do attitude.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills and the ability to deal with ambiguity and change.
• Positive and strong collaboration skills fostering efficient relationships with third-party vendors, including management of their performance and feedback.
• A probing and pragmatic personality with the ability to effectively implement change and manage stakeholders.

At Uniper, we reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension, and health-related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements while supporting home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries.

As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

• Personal development and learning opportunities.
• Enhanced company pension – with up to 12% company contributions.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Electric vehicle charging at our sites.
• In-house occupational health services.
• Company funded private medical insurance including free GP service.
• Performance-related benefits.
• Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work or buy and sell extra holiday.
• Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager.

Please note, any CVs sent via email will not be taken into consideration. All CVs must be submitted via the online application process only.

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity, or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.