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The Manager IT Commodity Marketing role is responsible for providing IT strategy, delivery, and support for customer departments. The manager will partner with internal customer groups and deliver technology solutions to enable efficient and effective business processes. The ability to motivate change, communicate strategically about technology, and an eye for improving organizational efficiencies are keys to success.
Your work will challenge you, and with our Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
Leads a hard-working team of business systems analysts and developers and coordinates workforce planning and career development activities for team members
Builds strong relationships with business partners and external vendors \Drives standardization of application platforms across all dedicated business areas, enables simplification, and finds opportunities to fully use existing system functionality
Creates a strategic roadmap for the business areas that align with overall IT strategy for the company
Maintains a solid understanding of industry and technology trends as they apply the aligned business areas
Serves as a solution provider to business partners including evaluation and analysis of system changes and new systems; Provides project leadership and management of business initiatives following project lifecycle, testing and all applicable policies and procedures
Prepares, monitors and manages capital and expense budgets
Other duties as assigned
Education/Experience:
Required: Bachelor's degree and minimum of seven (7) years' experience in IT, including a minimum of two (2) years in a formal or informal leadership role
Preferred: Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field
Other Requirements:
Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
Exemplary vendor management skills
Strong knowledge of technology trends and ability to translate those trends into effective business applications
Experience partnering with leaders across IT and business to deliver a technology roadmap
Ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities
Preferred: Knowledge in implementation or support of cloud/SaaS applications \Preferred: Experience in the energy or utility industries
Preferred: Understanding of current and future state strategies for automation technology
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Strong knowledge of energy commodities trading concepts, with extensive subject matter expertise in several of the following areas: physical trading of natural gas, and the associated logistics processes
Preferred: Knowledge of the following: derivatives trading, including linear financial instruments and options, Nodal (FTR/CRR) trading, market risk concepts, including deal modeling and Endur sim results, mark-to-market and P&L calculation, and P&L explain, settlements and accounting, including sub ledgering and interfaces to ERP systems, confirmations
Preferred: Regulatory compliance knowledge
Preferred: Strong SQL experience and knowledge of common enterprise systems such as CRMs, ERPs, BI, and financial systems
Shift/Work Hours/Travel Requirements:
Flexibility to align work hours with business processes for special projects, such as after-hours system deployments, upgrades, and support
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