Job Description

• LPS supports high‑value, high‑volume commercial activity, including:
• Deal and contract entry for lease‑based purchases
• Contract generation and maintenance
• Pricing and run‑ticket processing
• Division‑of‑interest (DOI) master data management
• Payments and reporting, including 1099 tax reporting
• SOX‑critical controls around contract and payment data

• A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)
• Written mainly in COBOL/TELON, with DB2 and VSAM
• ~5 million lines of code
• Integrated with Endur, MCC, and other downstream systems
• Costly to run and increasingly constrained by:
• Mainframe capacity limits
• Emulator and licence costs
• Integration complexity
• Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already "escaped" into Access / spreadsheets)

• Agree and deliver programs, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within Shell's standards and controls framework.
• Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments.
• Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
• Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes.
• Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes and maximize benefits.
• Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
• Mobilize and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team.
• Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes.
• Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments.
• Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints.
• Assess program risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams.
• Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual.
• Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.

• Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50.
• Agile & waterfall methodology.
• Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication and resilience. stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.

• Business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling