Ctrm Program Manager

**CTRM Program Manager**

About Ampol Trading & Shipping

Our purpose at Ampol is to power better journeys today and tomorrow. Our Trading and Shipping team is key to achieving this, not only supplying our customer’s needs today, but evolving as the energy transition takes place to supply our customers well into the future.

We take pride in our people and value innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. If you’re a professional committed to excellence, Ampol is looking for you.

**About the role**

Accountable for the management, implementation, and delivery of a large technology program of work in “Commodity Trading Risk Management” (CTRM) consisting of end to end physical and paper trading activities across Singapore, US, Europe, Australia and NZ. This role holds end to end accountability for the project lifecycle, from concept to operational transition, ensuring business value delivery through technology aligned with Ampol’s program management methodologies and procedures.

As the leader of the Commercial Fuels Commodity Trading Risk Management project, this position oversees a crucial, complex initiative aimed at replacing legacy platforms, integrating with ERP, Voyage Management, Supply Planning, Data Lake, and Front Office Tools, and refining processes to support:

- Comprehensive physical and paper trading activities
- Existing operations in Singapore, US, and Australia, as well as new markets in the UK and NZ
- Trading of hydrocarbon and renewable fuel products

Responsibilities span the entire project lifecycle, from architectural design through to seamless transition into operations, with a focus on delivering technology-driven business value and adhering to Ampol’s program management standards. Key aspects of the role include:

- Oversight of CTRM vendor agile delivery and associated KPIs
- Vendor management
- Stakeholder engagement, risk and issue management, and comprehensive reporting
- Budget management
- Establishing sustainable BAU (Business as Usual) product operations

This role collaborates closely with the Process team to drive business process enhancements and improve transparency through the CTRM implementation.

**Key responsibilities**

Project Delivery
- Responsible for managing a multi year CAPEX budget of ~$15m per annum.
- Work with business stakeholders in the commodity trading and supply business to prioritise demands and ensure alignment with financial allocations.
- Define, establish and manage multiple 3rd party vendor contracts for the execution of work packages within the program (value ~$10-20m), with appropriate IT and Business sign off.
- Actively manage the Portfolio of technology projects in this space, ensuring resource management, reporting, financial controls are in place.
- Ensures that technology project scope is managed to and act as point of escalation for scope changes, ensure that changes in scope that will impact time or cost are managed within established change control processes.
- Ensure delivery of a CTRM that meets trading and supply operations requirements.
- Develop business case proposals and funding allocation requests for the portfolio of projects
- Ensures IT projects deliver the benefits stated.
- Manages the annual Capital planning cycle for the portfolio of projects in conjunction with the Technology Managers.
- Ensures projects are delivered as per Ampol project management methodology.
- Provides input to the development and maintenance of the Projects at Ampol methodology and framework and tooling.

People Leadership
- Provides leadership, direction and professional development of IT project managers ensuring skills and knowledge are aligned to the project requirements.
- Recruits and selects project resources - both permanent and contract - as business requirements and funding dictate. Stakeholder management
- Actively engages with stakeholders, ensuring appropriate governance is in place.
- Ensures that stakeholders expectations around project scope, timeframes and outcomes are effectively managed and any changes are well communicated and understood.
- Escalates project risks and any strategies being deployed to address slippages.
- Ensures appropriate change management processes are in place to drive effective end user adoption.
- Escalates project issues / risks needing attention to the Technology Managers and Head of Delivery.

Vendor Management
- Ensures prudent commercial procurement decisions are made in relation to the selection of the delivery partners and that statements of work are negotiated and managed by the team accordingly, with sign off from Contract owners.
- Ensure value for money is obtained from vendor contracts, synergies are achieved, and a strong alliance relationship is established and maintained.
- Works with the Project Managers to ensure that vendors are meeting the critical elements of their commercial agreements and SOWs and works across the projects to address any issues associated with vendor del