Senior Product Analyst

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 3, 2023

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in

This role is on the Forecasting and Retail Position Manager (RPM) Product teams within the Energy Marketing Powerhouse team (EMPH). The Product Analyst is responsible to support both the Forecasting and RPM Product Managers with managing the lifecycle of each of their products. Responsibilities include managing specific customer engagements and implementations, scoping and implementing new features, testing, and building collateral that supports the product area. In addition, this role will play a leading scrum master role in work with the various product teams within the Energy Marketing Americas Powerhouse. You will support various product teams in parallel through quarterly planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, review/demos, retrospectives and release planning meetings. You will help the organization, teams and individuals in building the Agile mindset using Agile principles and practices through coaching, facilitation, mentoring and change managements skills.

What’s the role?

In this role, you are also a leader in the natural team and are required to continuously develop your leadership behaviours:

Live our values and goal zero - We do the right thing with respect to our values, safety and people

Maximise our performance - We focus on priorities, seek improvements and work together across teams to close our gap to potential and deliver bottom line commercial results

Grow trust in Shell - We work outside in and build strong long-term relationships with customers, partners, and external parties and make a positive contribution to society

Engage & inspire - We engage everyone through our connected purpose and inspire people and teams be their best through development, coaching and honest feedback

Learner mindset - We have a shared belief that everyone can grow their ability, learn from mistakes & successes and speak up openly in a safe environment

Accountabilities

Provide support to the Product Manager with managing product lifecycles.

Support or directly manage specific implementations of Forecasting and RPM products.

Build and maintain collateral that supports the products.

Work with functional partners to ensure that security and operations features are incorporated into product development. Conduct product testing in collaboration with software engineers on the team.

Provide regular and ad hoc data and reports on the product/portfolio to stakeholders.

Manage the product backlog and write product specs for new features.

Work with engineers to build, test, and implement the product roadmap.

Mentor and coach teams, teams of teams and agile coaches in a collaborative environment focused on achieving the effective Agile Transition

Strategic advisor on agile strategy and scaling agility

Enterprise and business agility advisor / consultant

Support leadership applying agile frameworks and mindsets

Possibility of work with on-site teams, so need may to travel

Spinning up new teams and putting structures in place to assure their success

Agnostic approach to lean and Agile frameworks, helping teams to choose their ways of working based on their environment and challenges. Sharing of best practices to achieve goals

Bring together Teams of Teams and orchestration of teams

Implement effective governance, escalation, and reporting

Senior stakeholder management

Design & implement OKR’s. Identify, suggest and collaborate with development and product manager on measurable improvements for the teams understand the business priorities in upcoming sprints and able to impact beyond areas of responsibility

Maintain in-depth knowledge of product lifecycle, standards and supporting processes and practices

What we need from you?

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

Minimum five (5) years relevant work experience using agile practices, supporting development of IT digital/product solutions

Scrum Master, Product Owner and/or Kanban certification

Demonstrated experience leading/driving multiple IT Product delivery teams in parallel

Experience working in Jira, creating and managing issues and utilizing Jira dashboard and reporting capabilities

Experience of working with multiple lean and Agile frameworks and scaled Agile approaches (i.e. SAFe)

Prior experience of working with Jira Boards and Advanced Plan (tooling experience principles may apply across other delivery products)

Ability to manage the dependencies between team capacity, prioritization, issue tracking and committed deadlines in Jira

Desirable:

Experience working in geographically distributed teams

Experience in Power, including Pricing, Forecasting, Machine Learning, and/or Trading

Experience creating marketing collateral and case studies

Mentoring and coaching skills & experience, online and F2F

Ability to work with strong stakeholders and demonstrate strength and certainty to them, helping them to achieve goals

Ability to orchestrate multiple teams and establish governance

Ability to identify and organize processes to enable CI/CD (Continuous integration/continuous delivery)

Personal Attributes:

Team player and able to collaborate, proactively communicates and shares understanding and experience within a team.

Keeps up-to-date knowledge of the energy industry and energy trading.

Comfortable talking to business users and can translate business needs into tangible user stories or requirements.

High emotional intelligence and mature soft skills

Clear communicator and able to work in a multicultural environment.

Uses best practice analysis techniques but can change approach according to conflicting timelines/risks involved.

Uses initiative and owns their deliverables end-to-end.

Brings ideas to the table, is inquisitive and excited by new technology.

Used to working in a flexible, independent manner on a mixture of small unstructured and large structured items.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with over 90,000 employees in more than 70 countries and territories. In the US, we have operated for over a century and are a major oil and gas producer onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico, a recognized innovator in exploration and production technology, and a leading manufacturer and marketer of fuels, natural gas and petrochemicals. We deliver energy responsibly; operate safely with respect to our neighbours and work to minimize our environmental impact. We are in search of remarkable people who will thrive in a diverse and inclusive work environment to deliver exciting projects locally and globally. People who are passionate about exploring new frontiers. Innovators and pioneers. People with the drive to help shape our future. Because remarkable people achieve remarkable things.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potentials.

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.

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