Mgr IT Commodity Marketing

Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.

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 a focus on improving organizational efficiencies are keys to success.

• 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 aligns with overall IT strategy for the company.
• Maintains a solid understanding of industry and technology trends as they apply to 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.

• 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.

• 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 derivatives trading, including linear financial instruments and options, Nodal (FTR/CRR) trading, market risk concepts, including deal modeling and Endur simulation results, mark-to-market and P&L calculation, and P&L explanation, 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.

• Flexibility to align work hours with business processes for special projects, such as after-hours system deployments, upgrades, and support.

• Competitive compensation
• Annual incentive program
• Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office‑based roles
• Flexible work schedule for most field‑based roles
• 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous company‑paid life insurance and disability benefits
• A consumer‑driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Robust employee learning and development
• High internal mobility (we promote from within)
• Parental leave (up to 6 weeks for each parent)
• Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
• Domestic partner benefits
• Educational reimbursement
• Non‑profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
• Employee resource groups
• Employee assistance programs
• Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
• Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes

Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.