Senior Project Manager - Energy Trading

Location:

This position is based in Newark, New Jersey, and requires onsite work three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday. Qualified candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance and be able to work onsite on these days.

Salary:
This position pays a salary in the range of $150,000 to $170,000 annually.

• Lead end-to-end project delivery for an enterprise Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) application upgrade, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives are met.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, RAID logs, resource plans, status reports, and required project documentation.
• Apply established EPMO governance, Stage-Gate methodologies, change controls, and reporting requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate project meetings, including Sprint/Scrum meetings, stakeholder reviews, steering committees, and executive status updates to monitor progress and resolve delivery challenges.
• Coordinate application upgrade activities, including requirements gathering, system integrations, data transfer and migration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Partner with trading operations, finance, IT teams, and vendors to ensure the upgraded application supports accurate trade reporting, financial P&L generation, and business operational requirements.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, decision logs, approvals, and supporting records to ensure audit readiness and provide clear evidence of project activities, controls, and compliance.
• Proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and changes, including those related to data integrity, vendor deliverables, regulatory requirements, and technical constraints.
• Drive stakeholder accountability through consistent communication, follow-up on action items, and timely escalation of outstanding issues or decisions.
• Coordinate testing readiness, data validation, implementation planning, cutover activities, and transition to steady-state operations.
• Manage vendor relationships, Statements of Work (SOWs), project financials, resource allocation, and delivery commitments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management, Business Administration or a related field required, with 8+ years of project management. experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise application implementations, upgrades, migrations, integrations, or modernization initiatives.
• Experience supporting Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) platforms or trading-related enterprise applications, including implementations, upgrades, or transformations.
• Strong understanding of formal Stage-Gate/Waterfall project management methodologies, with experience coordinating Agile/Scrum activities within established project governance frameworks.
• Proven experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, and executive reporting.
• Experience coordinating data migration, system integrations, testing, and deployment activities across multiple technical and business work streams.
• Strong documentation and governance skills, including maintaining project records, approvals, and supporting evidence in regulated or audit-intensive environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to drive accountability, follow up on deliverables, and resolve outstanding issues.
• Experience managing vendors, system integrators, and third-party delivery teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, trading operations, finance, business stakeholders, and…