Senior Manager, Energy Trading & Risk Management (ETRM)

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. This Senior Manager role is a senior, hands-on functional consulting position focused on designing, configuring and delivering front-to-back ETRM solutions, with ION Openlink Endur as the primary platform. The role emphasizes deep knowledge of crude oil, refined products, chemicals and natural gas trading and operations, while welcoming experience with Allegro, RightAngle, Enuit ENTRADE and other ETRM platforms. The successful candidate combines functional solution ownership, detailed product knowledge, client-facing problem solving and mentoring of delivery teams. Power and renewable energy experience is an advantage, not a core requirement. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Lead Functional ETRM Solution Design: Own the functional design of Endur-based implementations, translating trading, risk, operations and finance requirements into coherent business processes, functional specifications, platform configurations and testable outcomes.
• Configure and Validate Endur Capabilities: Provide hands-on functional expertise in trade capture, deal templates, instruments, workflows, lifecycle events, pricing, valuation, positions, exposure, settlements and reporting. Review configurations, investigate issues and resolve gaps alongside developers and technical teams.
• Work Across Relevant ETRM Platforms: Apply functional expertise to Allegro, RightAngle, Enuit ENTRADE, Triple Point and other platforms when client needs require; assess product fit, standard capabilities, configuration options, workflow differences and migration impacts.
• Support Core Physical Commodity Domains: Design business workflows for crude oil, refined products, chemicals and natural gas, including physical and financial trades, term contracts, pricing formulas, quality specifications, inventory, blending, movements, pipeline and marine logistics, nominations, measurement, invoicing and settlement as relevant to each commodity.
• Define Front-to-Back Functional Requirements: Partner with front office, schedulers, operators, risk, credit, accounting and treasury to document end-to-end processes, controls, business rules, exception handling, reference data, master data ownership and integration requirements for connected applications.
• Own Functional Delivery as an Individual Contributor: Lead discovery workshops, fit-gap analysis, solution design, backlog elaboration, configuration decisions, functional issue triage and solution acceptance; remain hands-on in the highest-complexity work while guiding other consultants.
• Drive Functional Quality and Business Readiness: Create and review user stories, process maps, functional design documents, test scenarios and expected results; lead functional SIT/UAT support, defect prioritization, reconciliation and operational readiness activities.
• Guide Data Migration and Cutover from a Business Perspective: Define trade, position, inventory, reference-data and historical-data conversion rules; support mapping, cleansing, reconciliation, parallel operations, cutover rehearsals and post-go-live stabilization.
• Mentor Functional Practitioners: Coach analysts and consultants on commodity-domain concepts, Endur functionality, requirement quality, configuration choices and root-cause analysis; provide constructive review and leadership without requiring direct-report management.
• Use AI to Accelerate Functional Delivery: Apply enterprise-approved AI tools where appropriate to accelerate requirements analysis, process documentation, test design, knowledge discovery and issue investigation, while ensuring human validation, confidentiality and appropriate controls.
• Advise Clients and Support Practice Growth: Explain functional solution trade-offs, recommend practical process improvements and provide subject-matter input to estimates, proposals and client workshops, without making sales targets or program administration the primary focus. This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.
• Hands-On ETRM Functional Experience: 10+ years in ETRM/CTRM functional consulting, business analysis, product configuration or solution delivery, including substantial Endur experience on major implementations, upgrades or transformations.
• Strong Endur Functional Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to configure, validate and troubleshoot front-to-back Endur functionality and understand the interactions among deal capture, pricing, risk, scheduling, inventory, invoicing and settlement.
• Core Commodity Domain Expertise: Deep functional knowledge of at least two of crude oil, refined products, chemicals and natural gas, with a clear track record delivering solutions for physical trading and/or downstream supply and trading operations. Breadth across all four is highly valued.
• Trade Lifecycle and Controls: Working command of physical and financial trade lifecycles, contract terms, pricing, exposures, credit, logistics, inventory, P&L, invoicing, reconciliation and accounting handoffs within commodity trading organizations.
• Functional Delivery Record: Substantive functional ownership in at least two ETRM implementations, upgrades or complex workstreams, including workshops, functional design, configuration, testing, migration and production stabilization.
• Leadership and Mentorship: Ability to lead functional workstreams, build credibility with traders and business stakeholders, guide junior consultants and collaborate effectively with architecture, development, integration and data teams.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Additional ETRM Platforms: Experience with Allegro, RightAngle, Enuit ENTRADE, Triple Point/Commodity XL, Aspect, Orchestrade or Molecule, including cross-platform process design or migration.
• Advanced Physical Operations: Expertise in crude/refined-products scheduling, pipeline and marine logistics, terminal operations, blending, bulk chemicals, petrochemical feedstocks, natural gas nominations, storage or transportation.
• Power and Renewables: Functional exposure to power trading and scheduling, PPAs, renewable generation, environmental products or related risk and settlement processes is desirable but not required.
• Enterprise Process Integration: Experience defining business-level interfaces with SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP, inventory, terminal, scheduling, market data, logistics and finance systems, including data reconciliation and control design.
• Functional Tools and AI: Familiarity with SQL for investigation, data validation, Excel, Jira, Confluence and appropriately governed AI-assisted business analysis, documentation or test-design tools.
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