2016.01 - 2016.09 Shell/BG Kazakhstan Integration Manager The Hague, NL
Ran the day-to-day Project Management Office for an on time, on budget delivery of the integration of Shell’s and BG’s assets in Kazakhstan; This involved merging, downsizing and re-organising the two head offices in Astana while ensuring operations in the Assets (Karashaganak, Kashagan) were not disrupted.
Created and maintained the PMO tools: Project Implementation Plan, Risk Register/ Risk Matrix, Stakeholder Map/ Engagement Plan, Communications Plan, Assurance Plan.
Monitored and reported monthly the above plans against targets/timeline.
Acted as liaison between central governance organisation (steer) and local project teams (feedback/performance).
2013 - 2016 Upstream Senior Commercial Advisor Shell, The Hague, NL
Led structured identification approaches of NBD and M&A opportunities.
Developed a new tool used in evaluating BG’s frontier exploration blocks.
Reviewed LNG & Gas commercial agreements and provided commercial advice for confidential/coded LNG projects in West and East Africa for go/no go decisions.
Launched a new Knowledge Management initiative to retain upstream commercial corporate memory by promoting “working out loud” behaviours and supporting tools (with IT support).
2010 - 2013 Gas Commercial Advisor Shell, London, UK
Created, implemented and presented monthly to Shell Energy Europe (SEE) leadership a new Deal Funnel tool and process that provided control and visibility of all commercial and trading projects and opportunities being pursued in SEE.
Created and maintained European gas fundamentals model to advise Traders on coal switching prices, LNG landed prices and European Long Term contracted Gas prices (e.g. from Statoil and Gazprom) and hub prices.
Supported Commercial Managers in their preparation of their Mandate to Negotiate and supported the South East European Gas Commercial Team in their negotiations for a new creative gas purchase deal.
Led competitive intelligence efforts on Gas/LNG players; co-led effort to identify M&A opportunities.
Reviewed and reported monthly and quarterly on commercial performance of various SEE business units by country (e.g. UK, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, Turkey) in terms of its operating performance, success in implementing SEE strategic initiatives and highlighting optimisation opportunities.
2009 - 2010 Post-Merger Integration Manager, SEE / Trading Shell, London, UK
Set up the project management office that led the successful integration of Shell’s European Gas businesses (SEE) with Shell’s Gas, Power, and CO2 trading business; including moving staff internationally (on time, below budget).
Led the merger implementation efforts, coordinated the work streams and their delivery. Supported the development of the operating model, the organisational design and the business processes and procedures. Created and obtained sign-off of project budget.
2008 - 2009 EU Gas/LNG Portfolio Price/Risk Advisor Shell, London, UK
Developed and recommended pricing strategy for part of SEE’s 25 bcm/a pipeline Gas portfolio in UK, Norway, Spain, Italy and Turkey.
Provided pricing steer, mandates for new LNG and pipeline Gas SPA’s and price reviews based on underlying fundamentals analysis, aiming to improve achieved sales prices and lowering purchase costs.
Advised on global pipeline Gas/LNG swap opportunities, European Gas market fundamentals and their implications on SEE's pan-European Gas supply & sales portfolio.
Issued and updated Fuel-Oil/Gas Oil price correlations to help structure long term Gas sales and supply price proposals; led a project to replace a disappearing Platts price index in SEE’s Gas contracts.
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Oil and Gas
