ETRM Project Manager

Openlink Endur Project Manager | 6-month initial Contract | London Industry: Commodity Trading Location: London - Hybrid Job type: Contract Cititec has partnered with a leading global commodity trading firm, who are looking to bring an experienced ETRM Project Manager into their technology team. This is a senior delivery position within a major multi-year transformation programme, focused on a greenfield reimplementation and upgrade of Openlink Endur from v16 to v25. You will own the end-to-end delivery of assigned workstreams, working closely with technology, trading, risk, finance and other business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery across scope, schedule, budget and quality. What you'll do:

• Own the end-to-end delivery of assigned Openlink Endur v25 workstreams.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources and quality against the wider programme plan.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, RAID logs and resource plans.
• Coordinate Business Analysts, Developers, Trainers, UAT and Cutover teams to ensure key milestones are achieved.
• Manage daily activity updates and defect tracking using JIRA.
• Provide regular status reporting, including RAG status, risks, issues, dependencies and key decisions.
• Chair workstream and cross-workstream forums, driving the resolution of dependencies and blockers.
• Manage change control across scope, schedule and budget.
• Act as a key point of contact for business stakeholders across the assigned workstream.
• Manage relationships with third-party implementation partners and systems integrators.
• Identify, track and mitigate delivery risks and issues, escalating appropriately where required.
• Support cutover and hypercare planning across the workstream.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement across the wider programme.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across Trading, Risk, Middle Office, Finance and Technology. Requirements:
• Project management experience delivering large-scale technology implementations, with strong ETRM experience.
• Proven experience managing workstreams within a multi-year, multi-region system upgrade or greenfield reimplementation.
• Strong understanding of the front-to-back trade lifecycle within a commodities trading environment.
• Experience working across Trading, Risk, Middle Office, Finance and Technology functions.
• Proven track record of stakeholder and vendor management within complex technology programmes.
• Strong governance and reporting experience, with the ability to present confidently to senior stakeholders and steering committees.
• Excellent risk, issue, dependency and change management skills.
• Experience managing implementation partners or systems integrators on an Endur programme would be advantageous.
• Exposure to commodities markets such as power, gas, freight, LNG or emissions would be beneficial.
• Formal project management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile/Scrum would be advantageous.
• Comfortable using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or GitHub Copilot to improve project reporting, RAID management and governance processes. To find out more information, please apply or message me on LinkedIn.