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Transformation Advisor #25-113

Job Title: Transformation Advisor III

Location: Houston, TX

End-Client: Large Energy Company

Pay: $80 - $88.12/hr.

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits (401K, Health, Dental, and Vision) through Icon Consultants are available

Job Type: 18 - month contract role

Job Profile Summary

The Transformation Advisor is an 18-month role within ST&S’ gas and power trading Americas (GPTA) business, reporting to the GPTA Transformation Manager. The Transformation Advisor is responsible for supporting transformation activities and delivering successful outcomes for high priority, cross-functional business processes and technology initiatives. The primary focus will be on understanding, recommending, and working with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver effective transformation governance, project execution, change planning, and business process management within and across teams, tools and initiatives spanning the transformation portfolio to ensure delivery of business objectives.

Key Accountabilities

The Transformation Advisor will lead and support GPTA transformation activities, project management execution and various project responsibilities, including:

• Support and drive rigorous projects and change management execution in relevant projects to ensure stakeholder readiness, identify and mitigate risks, and deliver objectives.
• Facilitate identification of requirements to transition from the current state to the desired future state of projects in scope and recommend delivery structure and implementation plan to achieve them.
• Understand and support end-to-end business inter-team processes and customer journey on Salesforce platform, support project managers and Product Owner with digital product maintenance, issue escalations, roadmap and prioritization considerations, and business launch activities.
• Oversee and develop workstream activity plans and ensure delivery against plan, identifying risks, mitigations, owners, and escalating issues as required.
• Ensure project plans are up to date with key milestones, deliverables and deadlines; liaise and consolidate updates from various workstreams, and track performance.
• Identify project governance, execution or implementation gaps, and recommend solutions.
• Assess why, how, when, and at what magnitude stakeholders will be impacted by changes to business processes, technology/ service changes, and organizational structures.
• Build effective relationships with senior leaders, project teams, and impacted stakeholder groups, taking proactive ownership to liaise and connect as needed to ensure successful delivery.
• Identify, define, and mitigate risks and barriers to successful implementation; gather related KPIs to demonstrate success; suggest improvements based on findings.
• Ensure compliance and alignment with legal, digital security, data privacy, and relevant stakeholders, coordinating inputs from GPTA and cross-functional stakeholders into the transformation delivery plan policy and regulatory requirements.
• Provide ad-hoc support for all transformation activities as needed

Experience & qualifications:

• Self-starter with high level of diligence and initiative and ability to manage multiple activities and respond to changing priorities
• Experience working within global technology transformation programs and leading complex, multi-workstream projects, including the replacement of systems and processes
• Project management experience with a demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with attention to detail in handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Exceptional attention to detail, communication (active listening, verbal, written, and visual), presentation skills and comfort engaging with senior leaders; fluency in English (both written and verbal).
• Ability to translate complex information into digestible content for a variety of audiences
• Experience with ST&S or GPTA business operations, financial services and/or commodity trading business highly desired
• Strong digital acumen, cross-functional systems projects experience, and ability to liaise effectively between business stakeholders and technology realms

Desirable criteria

• Agile project experience & digital fluency is a plus, including user-centric design methodologies such as journey mapping and design thinking
• PMP certification and/or other relevant agile or project management certifications preferred
• Change management (e.g., Prosci ®, CCMP, etc.) certification or other relevant change management certification, a plus
• Experience with Salesforce and multi-product business implementations

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