Senior Energy Trading Business SME

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About Publicis Sapient

Most companies in the AI era do one of two things: they advise, or they sell you a tool. We do both. Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, which means we build our own AI platforms and bring the strategists, product thinkers, designers and engineers who make them work inside the world's most complex businesses. It's where people and products shape the future of enterprise, and where your ideas actually reach the organizations that run the world. If you want to question how things are done, learn continuously and do the best work of your career alongside 20,000 people across 28 countries, you're in the right place. Come build with us.

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Overview

Why This Role Matters

Energy and Commodities (E&C) Trading organisations have invested heavily in E/CTRM platforms over the last two decades. Yet the organisations creating real competitive advantage today are not simply the ones with the best trading systems. They are the ones building the data ecosystems, user experiences and intelligent decision-support capabilities around them. As the industry accelerates towards AI-enabled operations and increasingly data-driven trading models, the focus is shifting from system implementation to enterprise-wide trading transformation.

Publicis Sapient partners with many of the world's leading Energy Trading organisations to navigate that shift. Our teams work across the full trading technology landscape, helping clients modernise ETRM estates, architect data-led ecosystems and unlock greater value from their trading platforms. This creates opportunities for experienced practitioners to apply their expertise beyond traditional package implementation, influencing how the next generation of trading organisations operate, scale and compete.

As Senior Energy Trading Business SME at Publicis Sapient, you will bring deep expertise in Physical Commodities trading - across Crude, Refined Products, Gas and Power - and physical trading operations to help some of the world's leading energy organisations navigate complex business and technology transformation programmes. Acting as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, you will help shape future-state trading processes, operating models and ETRM-enabled capabilities across the energy value chain.

This role is suited to practitioners who have spent time inside physical supply and trading functions – in front office, operations, scheduling or middle office – and can combine that first-hand experience with strong working knowledge of Openlink Endur and other ETRM platforms.

Where You’ll Make an Impact

• Serve as a subject matter expert across Physical Commodities trading business processes, spanning Crude, Refined Products, Gas and/or Power
• Bring practical front-to-back knowledge of physical commodity trading, including physical deal structures, deal capture, logistics and scheduling, nominations, actualisation, inventory, pricing, exposure, P&L, settlement, invoicing and accounting
• Help clients make pragmatic design decisions on what should sit in the ETRM core, what should be handled through enterprise platforms, and where differentiated business capabilities should be enabled through data, analytics or workbenches
• Help define future-state operating models, business processes and transformation roadmaps for physical and bulk commodities Trading organisations
• Provide expert guidance on how trading workflows, operational processes and ETRM platforms can be optimised to improve business outcomes
• Support design decisions on process harmonisation, standardisation, localisation and platform fitment
• Translate complex commercial and operational requirements into clearly defined business capabilities, process designs and delivery objectives
• Facilitate workshops with front office, middle office, operations and technology stakeholders to align business priorities and solution outcomes
• Act as the bridge between trading businesses and technology delivery teams, ensuring business requirements are effectively understood and delivered
• Challenge current-state ways of working and help clients design practical, scalable and future-ready trading capabilities
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders through deep industry expertise, practical Supply & Trading experience and strong consulting skills
• Contribute directly to client delivery as a hands-on practitioner, supporting business transformation and ETRM-enabled change initiatives
• Help clients navigate the future of Energy Trading through modernisation, data-led operating models and evolving trading technology ecosystems

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Significant experience (15+ years) within Energy Trading environments, including time spent within a physical trading organisation (front office, operations, scheduling or middle office) rather than solely in consulting roles
• Deep expertise within one or more Physical Commodities trading businesses - Crude, Refined Products, Gas or Power
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Supply & Trading processes and operating models
• Experience working across one or more areas of the trading lifecycle, including trading, risk management, scheduling, logistics, operations, inventory management or settlement functions
• Strong knowledge of Openlink Endur ETRM platform including how trade capture, logistics, risk, settlement and accounting processes are represented 
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders within trading organisations
• Strong understanding of how commercial processes, business workflows and ETRM platforms interact across Energy Trading organisations
• Experience supporting business transformation, process optimisation or ETRM-enabled change initiatives
• Proven ability to define, capture and translate business requirements into actionable delivery outcomes
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
• Ability to engage effectively with both business and technology stakeholders across complex transformation programmes

Additional Experience We Value

• Experience working across multiple Supply & Trading functions and/or multiple commodities (Crude, Refined Products, Gas, Power) within integrated energy organisations
• Experience supporting large-scale Energy Trading transformation, ETRM migration or operating model change programmes
• Knowledge of both business process and ETRM platform capabilities, enabling effective translation between trading users and technology teams
• Experience with global template design, process harmonisation, regional localisation and business readiness
• Understanding of how ETRM platforms integrate with SAP, market data, scheduling/logistics systems, data platforms and reporting ecosystems
• Appreciation of the wider architecture and data ecosystem around the ETRM core - enterprise data platforms, analytics, reporting and decision-support workbenches - and how these enable differentiated trading capabilities
• Exposure to AI-enabled trading environments, digital transformation initiatives or data-led operating models

Additional information

What You’ll Get in Return

• Be at the forefront of digital transformation
• "Plugged" into a truly global organization with a start-up mindset
• Career growth and training opportunities
• A collaborative, agile and diverse regional team
• Comprehensive insurance and medical benefits