Project Manager (Trading & Supply) Endur

Kforce has a client in Houston, TX is seeking an experienced Project Manager (Trading & Supply) w/Endur experience. Summary: A strong candidate is comfortable running a technically dense, enterprise change programme with heavy environment, vendor and test dependencies. We would prioritize someone who has led platform upgrades, major release validation, or large-scale regression/smoke-test programmes where infrastructure readiness, software licensing, technical SMEs, test coordination and business communication all had to move in lockstep. Duties:

• Turn an ambiguous "50/50 estimate" into disciplined execution through structured governance, milestones, RAID management and crisp decision escalation
• Coordinate deeply technical teams without needing to be the architect, especially across environment, DBA, application, custom code and test workstreams
• Manage external/vendor dependencies well, especially where license delivery, release notes, product roadmap clarity and demo/education sessions with the vendor influence timing and stakeholder confidence
• Handle execution under constrained capacity, including explicit prioritization of BAU versus change, and explain trade-offs credibly to senior stakeholders
• Translate a technical smoke test into executive decisions: whether to progress, pause, re-scope, or sequence follow-on capability work
• Drive prioritization decisions and alignment with broader upgrade strategy
• Provide concise executive updates with clear risks, decisions required, and next steps demonstrate ETRM experience, preferably Endur demonstrate knowledge of Trading & Supply landscape
• Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50
• Agile & waterfall methodology
• Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication and resilience
• Stakeholder management and enabling value creation