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Trends in Energy
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– A Primer –
Edited by
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Sponsored by Allegro and SAS/RiskAdvisory
Posted by zaheer on 2009/5/28 8:57:01 (15 reads)

This position is with one of the largest IT Consulting House of India, based out of Bangalore. The position location is Bangalore, India.

Responsibilities :
1. Candidates with strong ETRM Openlink experience for providing functional solutions to projects
2. Good experience in energy trading and risk management domain and needs to provide functional leadership in the same.
3. Proactively understand challenges and issues.
4. Make recommendations to improve functional solutions and workflows.
5. Liaise with client managers/ specialists to understand the problem statements
6. Candidate would be expected to help in building internal domain competency with in this space.
________________________________________
Qualification : BE/B.Tech/MS/M.Tech/MBA
Strong experience in Openlink
________________________________________
Experience :
The number of year of experience would be ideally 6+ years in Openlink

Preferences:

The ideal candidate –
• Should be an recognized expert in the area of ETRM - Openlonk
• Exposure to Openlink Technologies – Endur, Findur
• Extremely good interpersonal communications and analytical ability

Please send in your CV's to zaheer@truemenconsultants.com


Posted by mallik on 2009/5/7 16:13:04 (13 reads)

Hello All,

Please find the job description and details below....

Interested candidates may send their resumes to

Mallik Sharma.
msharma@cosmeconsulting.com
408-654-6592.


Position Details:

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Position : VP (Vice President)

Location : Stamford, CT

Duration : Contract-to-Permanent


Looking for a :

VP of Trading Support with experience supporting an Energy Commodities Trading Desk using the Symphony ETRM software product versions 4.0 and higher from TradeCapture, Inc..

Must have expert experience with Crude Oil and Refined Products Trading.

Also experience managing Business Analysts and System Analysts assigned to support trading operations of Energy Commodities. (Oil, Gas, Refined Products, Power, & Metals) desired.

Regards,
Mallik


Posted by BWilburn on 2009/3/3 13:36:18 (64 reads)

Allegro is a leading provider of energy trading and risk management (“ETRM”) software solutions. Allegro provides transparency and efficiencies across the front, middle, and back offices, by leveraging advanced technologies like Service-Oriented Architecture (“SOA”), grid computing, .NET, and Web Services. With more than 24 years of steady growth and deep industry knowledge, Allegro is here to stay. Our ETRM software solutions support some of the largest energy and trading companies worldwide, encompassing all energy commodities. Allegro equips customers with the right tools to solve daily challenges. Allegro is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serves customers worldwide with offices in Calgary, Houston, London, Rotterdam, Singapore and Zurich.


Allegro seeks an experienced Product Manager – Energy Trading/Risk Management to join our R&D group. The Product Manager-ETRM will serves as the liaison between customers, market research, sales and services, and development for new products and product enhancements. We are looking for someone to be based in our Dallas, TX headquarters.

. Challenges of the position include:

Conducts industry research to discover and document end user requirements, competitive strengths and weaknesses, and technological/regulatory requirements.
Defines the business processes and functional requirements of the product; the scope and content of test data and procedures; scope and content of product documentation.
Responsible for complex projects throughout the research, definition, development, testing, documentation and release cycle.
Operates under minimal supervision, with wide latitude for independent action.
Serves as energy industry subject matter expert in field of expertise as it relates to business software functionality. Expertise and work efforts focus primarily on the enhancement of Allegro’s proprietary software products.


Qualifications for consideration:

Ideal candidates for the product manager role will have the following:



Extensive experience in active energy trading environment across multiple commodities with physical and derivative contracts.
Extensive experience with risk management, exposure calculation, forward curves, linear and non-linear analytics, and market simulation.
Understanding of business processes required for market analysis, OTC and online trade control, and profit/loss and exposure reporting.
Experience with implementation and usage of energy trading and risk management systems.
Dynamic and credible presence, outstanding communication skills and the ability to lead and train others is a must!

Send your resume directly to b.wilburn@allegrodev.com


Posted by juliatv on 2009/2/24 12:59:26 (65 reads)

A client, a top-tier consulting firm is looking for several OpenLink Endur implementation consultants and managers.



Basic Qualifications:

2 years of relevant experience for Consultant, 3 years for Manager; 5 years for Sr. Manager

· Systems implementation experience with OpenLink Endur in an Energy trading or Commodities trading environment

- Risk management and reporting skills

- For managerial roles, project and program management experience

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

· Bachelor's Degree

- Ability to meet travel requirements: 80-100% during the week (M-Th or M-Fr)




Preferred:

· Implementation experience with any of the various trading systems including Sunguard, Murex, TriplePoint, SolArc RightAngle, ICTS Trade Capture, Allegro, etc.



Please send resumes to: julia@braingainrecruiting.com


Posted by marthagate on 2009/2/11 18:06:00 (79 reads)

Organization: Resources
Location: Location Negotiable

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description:
Accenture is looking for experienced people to serve in our Energy Trading & Risk Management (TRM) practice. This practice provides a wide range of business consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing services to our energy and utility clients. Examples of the types of services that Accenture provides to our clients in this area include:
• Strategic Planning
• Program/Project Management
• Business Architecture
• Systems Integration
• Organization Design
• Communication Planning
• Training and Market Trials
• Application Management
• IT Outsourcing

Key responsibilities may include:
• Creating overall application design and solution architecture
• Developing business process and functional designs
• Creating functional requirements as an input to application design
• Developing and testing business solution components and prototypes against detailed functional designs
• Application build, test, and deploy activities
• Planning and executing data conversion activities
• Driving test planning and execution
• Ability to travel up to 100%

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree
• 5+ years of relevant experience in any of the following areas:
• Systems implementation in an Energy trading or Commodities trading environment: specific knowledge and implementation experience with OpenLink Endur
• Planning, inventory forecasting, nominations, scheduling and actualization of hydrocarbon movements

Preferred Skills:
• Familiarity with both pipeline and marine based movements for crude or refined products
• Front, mid, and back office processes
• Program and project management skills (e.g., estimating, work planning, project reporting and tracking, issue management)
• Implementation experience with any of the various trading systems including OpenLink, Sunguard, Murex, TriplePoint, SolArc RightAngle, ICTS Trade Capture, Allegro, etc. or Primary Distribution/Optimization systems such as AspenTech IMOS.

Professional Skills:
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Send resumes to martha.gateley@accenture.com


Posted by marthagate on 2009/2/11 18:00:03 (109 reads)

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

Job Description
Management Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation. Industry Strategy professionals provide a point of view about historical industry drivers of high performance and evaluate / diagnose client capabilities to achieve high performance in an industry sector and identify improvement opportunities. They understand future industry drivers of high performance and articulate strategies.

The Resources OG has launched a new Foundation Offering focused on Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM). The new offering will position Accenture as a trusted partner for our clients' core business of commodity trading. The CTRM offering is relevant across Energy, Utilities, Chemicals and Natural Resources. The Commodity Trading and Risk Management Subject Matter Expert (SME) plays a critical role in helping to sell and deliver to clients. The SME is responsible for providing input to asset development, proposals, ongoing engagements and capability development materials. The SME presents to clients, presents to external bodies (i.e., conferences) and conducts training

Key responsibilities may include:
• Shaping and leading programs that translate results from business diagnosis and planning into transformation programs/projects
• Identifying and prioritizing account level value creation opportunities based on assessment activities and an understanding of client high level visions, performance gaps, and needs
• Translating and conveying client business needs into tangible business solution architecture
• Shaping and leading effort to define organization processes, capabilities, application of key technologies and performance measurements/KPIs
• Shaping and leading business architecture transformational programs
• Monitoring and managing target value and performance goals (e.g., strategic, financial and operations), ensuring planned business outcomes are achieved and adjusting program if necessary
• Assessing and managing risk throughout all aspects of the business solution implementation
• Leveraging the full range of appropriate client and Accenture resources in designing the change plan
• Leading effective multi-disciplinary teams to plan and deliver the business outcomes of the journey
• Monitoring journey results/business outcomes and making adjustments as needed

Basic Qualifications:
• 5 years experience working with commodity trading organizations to design and implement front-to-back office solutions, where "solutions" encompasses business processes, roles/responsibilities, systems, data, management controls. Candidates must be able to sell and deliver projects.
• Familiarity with multiple platforms including Openlink
• Experience in Utilities, Chemicals, Natural Resources or Energy industry
• Bachelors degree
Preferred Skills:
• Candidates should be conversant in multiple commodities, at a minimum crude, produce, gas and power. Metals and emissions are a plus.
• Direct experience with the front-to-back business requirements across multiple commodities, including all of the following: crude and oil products, natural gas, electricity, base metals, emissions
• Proven track record of others viewing candidate as a "SME", internal and/or external to candidate's organization
• Direct experience presenting to large audiences on CTRM topics
• Direct experience authoring papers on CTRM topics
• Familiarity with Openlink, Solarc and Triplepoint
• Familiarity with the integration architecture for aforementioned packages with SAP, credit systems, logistics systems, exchanges, tax systems and other relevant touch points via middleware (preferably TIBCO) or point-to-point
• Familiarity with architectures for reference and master data management
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a teaming environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong professional presence
• Established network within the trading and risk management community consisting of business contacts, IT contacts and vendor contacts

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

We are an equal opportunity Employer.


Posted by LukeChambe on 2009/1/12 8:41:57 (85 reads)

Andersen Steinberg is working with a leading global management consultancy firm to assist them in building an Energy Trading Process Development and Implementation team for their Energy practice. They require the following skill sets:

Pre Implementation Process Design Consultants
Strong on business process/functional design / risk management, good background in Energy trading. Will also need at least 3 years as a Management Consultant in this field or as an internal ‘consultant’, leading projects in this area. Experience as a trader is desirable if coupled with consultancy experience.

Pre Implementation Process Design Managers
As above, but with 5+ years experience in a consulting role and thus able to lead a small team.

Systems Implementation Consultants and Managers
With a good track record on having implemented Energy trading systems, these will follow on from the design/pre-implementation work. They will have 3+ years for a Consultant and 5+ for a Manager.

With all of the above, experience with Endur Openlink is highly desirable. Location is flexible, various US cities, with a preference for Chicago and Houston.

Location:
Chicago and Houston preferred, but other locations will be considered
To apply, email your resume to Luke Chambers: Luke@AndersenSteinberg.com quoting ref LC90701A in the subject line of your email.
www.andersensteinberg.com

Leaders in Global IT Advisory Recruitment


Posted by BWilburn on 2008/12/15 21:20:41 (96 reads)

Allegro is a leading provider of energy trading and risk management (“ETRM”) software solutions. Allegro provides transparency and efficiencies across the front, middle, and back offices, by leveraging advanced technologies like Service-Oriented Architecture (“SOA”), grid computing, .NET, and Web Services.

With more than 24 years of steady growth and deep industry knowledge, Allegro is here to stay. Our ETRM software solutions support some of the largest energy and trading companies worldwide, encompassing all energy commodities. Allegro equips customers with the right tools to solve daily challenges. Allegro is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serves customers worldwide with offices in Calgary, Houston, London, Rotterdam, Singapore and Zurich.

Allegro seeks an experienced Vice President of Services (Consulting) with a proven track record of managing complex, global software implementation consulting engagements to lead Allegro’s Global Services Organization. The position is a key member of Allegro’s Executive Management Team.

Key Responsibilities
 Develop, establish and scale global Services for the first year of $30M, building to $50M plus within the following two to three years.

 Responsible for driving customer satisfaction through focus on accountability and quality, and ensuring Services team members implement projects in accord with established methodology and processes to ensure consistency, repeatability and efficiency of the software implementation.

 Ensure that quality standards are set, understood and monitored across all client engagements and are delivered to the highest standard and align with Allegro’s implementation methodology.

 Develop and maintain senior client relationships to ensure an intimate knowledge of customers’ ongoing requirements, to maintain awareness of overall satisfaction of Allegro's delivery and grow and develop the ongoing customer relationships.

 Ensure that all functions and individuals responsible for client delivery are performing at the highest standard and resources are effectively utilized.

 Work with Services Director team to define scope of services and the strategy for enterprise software deployments that meet each customer’s business requirements.

 Ensure key Services roles have identified successors with development plans that will retain them for those roles

 Drives regular performance management, evaluations, talent reviews and development discussions and ensures Service Directors are taking actions on projects/tasks to enhance developmental opportunities for Consultants.

 40-50% travel

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
 Strong leadership skills with the ability to plan, manage, and control customer activities, work teams, timeline, and budget.

 Demonstrates sound understanding of core business processes, ETRM, technology developments and IT environments.

 Has extensive industry knowledge in one or more Allegro industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail) and is sought out by customers as an industry expert.

 Knowledge of engagement economics and appropriate staff leverage or mix.

 Ability to drive customer satisfaction, business development and software implementation.

 Strong ability to perform diplomatic facilitation using sound negotiation skills, consensus building techniques, and cross-functional collaboration at all levels of the company.

 Experienced in managing geographically dispersed cross-functional teams of Service Directors (directors of project management) to ensure successful project delivery.

 Demonstrated ability to prioritize and delegate in a resource constrained environment and re-prioritize resources rapidly.

 Demonstrated ability and interest in developing, engaging and motivating employees.

 Hands-on, action-oriented leader who maintains a personally demanding work schedule and expects others on the team to mirror that behavior.

 A high energy, results-oriented individual who takes the initiative and deals with issues proactively, decisively, persistently and timely.


EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE


 Minimum 10 - 15 years experience in professional services, including at least 5 years in a leadership role within a large consulting services organization and management of teams on a large scale (100+). Significant Big 4 experience of interest.

 Significant experience in leading teams to deliver and sell complex service offerings.

 Experience with enterprise software implementations and large scale consulting deployments on a global level – specifically Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific

 An entrepreneurial spirit is helpful.

 Working experience in one or more of Allegro industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail)

 Master’s Degree preferred

 It is important that the potential candidates recognize that Allegro Development and Allegro leadership place significant value on, and manage and assess performance according to our Allegro Values. These are as follows:
o EXPERTISE – We are domain and subject-matter experts, encouraging knowledge sharing and ongoing learning.
o INNOVATION – We are driven to continuously innovate, creating high-quality and high-value solutions.
o INTEGRITY – We are accountable for our actions, promoting truthfulness, candor and sincerity.
o PASSION – We are enthusiastic about customer success, producing outstanding results and exceeding customer expectations.
o PEOPLE – We develop and reward our employees, knowing the contributions, talent and diversity of our employees drive success.
o TEAM – We collaborate, treat everyone with respect and have fun working together.

You can apply online directly at http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ALLEGRODEV&cws=1&rid=370


Posted by athomas on 2008/11/11 11:57:09 (116 reads)

Allegro is a leading provider of energy trading and risk management (“ETRM”) software solutions. Allegro provides transparency and efficiencies across the front, middle, and back offices, by leveraging advanced technologies like Service-Oriented Architecture (“SOA”), grid computing, .NET, and Web Services.

With more than 24 years of steady growth and deep industry knowledge, Allegro is here to stay. Our ETRM software solutions support some of the largest energy and trading companies worldwide, encompassing all energy commodities. Allegro equips customers with the right tools to solve daily challenges. Allegro is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and serves customers worldwide with offices in Calgary, Houston, London, Rotterdam, Singapore and Zurich.

Allegro seeks an experienced Services Director with a proven track record of managing complex software implementation consulting engagements. This position has primary accountability for the successful execution of software implementation, business development of new and existing customers, defining scope of services, serving as the executive sponsor for customers for escalations and project/quality reviews, serves as industry subject matter expert and accountable for employee professional development and performance. The Services Director reports to Managing Director of EMEA

Key Responsibilities

* Define scope of services and the strategy for enterprise software deployments that meet customers’ business requirements.

* Responsible for driving customer satisfaction through focus on accountability and quality, including regular customer account reviews.

* Ensures that Deployment Managers follow established implementation methodology and processes to ensure quality, consistency/repeatability, and efficiency of the software implementation.

* Partner with Sales to develop with new business and existing customers through extensive ETRM knowledge with one or more industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail).

* Drives regular performance management, evaluations, talent reviews and development discussions and ensures Deployment Managers are taking actions on projects/tasks to enhance developmental opportunities for employees.

* 40% to 60% travel


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

* Strong leadership skills with the ability to plan, manage, and control customer activities, work teams, timeline, and budget.

* Demonstrates sound understanding of core business processes, ETRM, technology developments and IT environments.

* Has extensive industry knowledge in one or more Allegro industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail) and is sought out by customers as an industry expert.

* Knowledge of engagement economics and appropriate staff leverage or mix.

* Ability to drive customer satisfaction, business development and software implementation.

* Strong ability to perform diplomatic facilitation using sound negotiation skills, consensus building techniques, and cross-functional collaboration at all levels of the company.

*Experienced in managing geographically dispersed cross-functional teams of Deployment Managers (consultants) and Principals (subject matter experts) to ensure successful project delivery.

* Demonstrated ability to prioritize and delegate in a resource constrained environment and re-prioritize resources rapidly.

* Demonstrated ability and interest in developing, engaging and motivating employees.



EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE


* Spanish or German language fluency preferred

* Experience with enterprise software implementations and large scale consulting deployments

* Client service or consulting experience

* Working experience in one or more of Allegro industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail)


It is important that the potential candidates recognize that Allegro Development and Allegro leadership place significant value on, and manage and assess performance according to our Allegro Values. These are as follows:

o EXPERTISE – We are domain and subject-matter experts, encouraging knowledge sharing and ongoing learning.
o INNOVATION – We are driven to continuously innovate, creating high-quality and high-value solutions.
o INTEGRITY – We are accountable for our actions, promoting truthfulness, candor and sincerity.
o PASSION – We are enthusiastic about customer success, producing outstanding results and exceeding customer expectations.
o PEOPLE – We develop and reward our employees, knowing the contributions, talent and diversity of our employees drive success.
o TEAM – We collaborate, treat everyone with respect and have fun working together.

If you believe you possess what it takes and ready for the challenges, please submit your CV at
http://www.allegrosummit.com/allegrodev.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373&Itemid=253

For more information about Allegro, please visit http://www.allegrodev.com


Posted by BWilburn on 2008/11/11 6:25:53 (126 reads)

Allegro seeks an experienced Director, Consulting Services with a proven track record of managing complex software implementation consulting engagements. This position has primary accountability for the successful execution of software implementation, business development of new and existing customers, defining scope of services, serving as the executive sponsor for customers for escalations and project/quality reviews, serves as industry subject matter expert and accountable for employee professional development and performance. The candidate reports to Managing Director of APAC.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* Define scope of services and the strategy for enterprise software deployments that meet customers’ business requirements.

* Responsible for driving customer satisfaction through focus on accountability and quality, including regular customer account reviews.

* Ensures that Deployment Managers follow established implementation methodology and processes to ensure quality, consistency/repeatability, and efficiency of the software implementation

* Partner with Sales to develop with new business and existing customers through extensive ETRM knowledge with one or more industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail).

* Drives regular performance management, evaluations, talent reviews and development discussions and ensures Deployment Managers are taking actions on projects/tasks to enhance developmental opportunities for employees.

* Some travel is required

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

* Strong leadership skills with the ability to plan, manage, and control customer activities, work teams, timeline, and budget.

* Demonstrates sound understanding of core business processes, ETRM, technology developments and IT environments.

* Must possess extensive industry & ETRM knowledge in one or more Allegro industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail) and is sought out by customers as an industry expert.

* Knowledge of engagement economics and appropriate staff leverage or mix.

* Ability to drive customer satisfaction, business development and software implementation.

* Strong ability to perform diplomatic facilitation using sound negotiation skills, consensus building techniques, and cross-functional collaboration at all levels of the company.

* Experienced in managing geographically dispersed cross-functional teams of Deployment Managers (consultants) and Principals (subject matter experts) to ensure successful project delivery.

* Demonstrated ability to prioritize and delegate in a resource constrained environment and re-prioritize resources rapidly.

* Demonstrated ability and interest in developing, engaging and motivating employees.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

* Possess related BS/BA/MBA with 8 – 10 years of experience of consulting in managing multiple engagements for ETRM/ERP systems & consultants;Experience with enterprise software implementations and large scale consulting deployments

* Extensive client service or consulting experience

* Working experience in one or more of Allegro industries (Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Utilities, Consumer or Retail)

Lives the Allegro Values. It is important that the potential candidates recognize that Allegro Development and Allegro leadership place significant value, manage to and assess performance on Allegro Values. These are as follows:

EXPERTISE – We are domain and subject-matter experts, encouraging knowledge sharing and ongoing learning.

INNOVATION – We are driven to continuously innovate, creating high-quality and high-value solutions.

INTEGRITY – We are accountable for our actions, promoting truthfulness, candor and sincerity.

PASSION – We are enthusiastic about customer success, producing outstanding results and exceeding customer expectations.

PEOPLE – We develop and reward our employees, knowing the contributions, talent and diversity of our employees drive success.

TEAM – We collaborate, treat everyone with respect and have fun working together.

If you believe you possess what it takes and ready for the challenges, please submit your resume at
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ALLEGRODEV&cws=1&rid=274

For more information about Allegro, please visit http://www.allegrodev.com


Posted by cadamek on 2008/11/10 16:08:59 (138 reads)

Allegro is a leading provider of energy trading and risk management (“ETRM”) software solutions. Allegro provides transparency and efficiencies across the front, middle, and back offices, by leveraging advanced technologies like Service-Oriented Architecture (“SOA”), grid computing, .NET, and Web Services.

With more than 24 years of steady growth and deep industry knowledge, Allegro is here to stay. Our ETRM software solutions support some of the largest energy and trading companies worldwide, encompassing all energy commodities. Allegro equips customers with the right tools to solve daily challenges. Allegro is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serves customers worldwide with offices in Calgary, Houston, London, Rotterdam, Singapore and Zurich.

Allegro seeks to hire an experienced Senior Account Executive. The Senior Account Executive (SAE) participates in a team-selling environment, providing the Customer with a primary point of contact within Allegro. In this capacity, the SAE will assume the ownership role for their assigned accounts and drive the identification and qualification of opportunities while executing account strategy and generating license, support and services revenues. In addition, the SAE will facilitate and maintain successful relationships with customers, which will be measured by their reference ability, customer satisfaction levels, increased revenue levels and overall account penetration.

Challenges of the position include:

-Identify, pursue and close new sales opportunities through the successful execution of CEM.
-Position Allegro to win new business within the account by developing, communicating and driving effective selling strategies that are based on valid, customer-specific value propositions.
-Routinely discuss and communicate opportunity plan sales strategy with other members of the virtual account team, as well as Allegro field and corporate management.
-Maintain an accurate and documented pipeline of opportunities (prospects and suspects) within Allegro CRM and provide appropriate communication of such to Allegro management.
-Provide Allegro sales management with accurate and timely sales forecasts within Allegro CRM to ensure proper visibility of new business within Allegro to optimize effective resource planning throughout the Allegro organization.
-Continuously gather knowledge of competitors and how to effectively position Allegro solutions against them.
-Leverage and effectively communicate Allegro’s solutions within the accounts to broaden Allegro’s presence and create new opportunities.

Qualifications for consideration:

-An enthusiastic self-starter with proven problem solving skills.
-Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
-Excellent oral and written communication skills.
-Dynamic presentation skills and the ability to train others.
-BA/BS degree
-Experience in information technology market (software, hardware, services)
-Specific energy industry and ETRM experience.
-Experience in lead sales role within team selling environment within enterprise software market is required
-Exposure to virtual account team selling environment.
-General familiarity with consultative selling training methodologies.


Lives the Allegro Values. It is important that the potential candidates recognize that Allegro Development and Allegro leadership place significant value, manage to and assess performance on Allegro Values. These are as follows:

EXPERTISE – We are domain and subject-matter experts, encouraging knowledge sharing and ongoing learning.

INNOVATION – We are driven to continuously innovate, creating high-quality and high-value solutions.

INTEGRITY – We are accountable for our actions, promoting truthfulness, candor and sincerity.

PASSION – We are enthusiastic about customer success, producing outstanding results and exceeding customer expectations.

PEOPLE – We develop and reward our employees, knowing the contributions, talent and diversity of our employees drive success.

TEAM – We collaborate, treat everyone with respect and have fun working together.

For more information about our company, products and services, please visit us at www.allegrodev.com



To apply for this position please fill out our online application by following the link provided below.

http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ALLEGRODEV&cws=1&rid=228


Posted by awinenger on 2008/7/25 12:14:11 (185 reads)

High growth ETRM company seeks experienced Senior Solutions Consultants for their European offices. Locations are London or Rotterdam.

Responsibilities:

* Participate in defining the prospect’s business requirements, needs, and objectives, and creating product demonstrations that exemplify how the company's solution can best meet their requirements.
* Conduct Customer Site surveys with prospective customers to meet the users to identify their requirements and pain points
* Respond to Requests for Information (RFI’s) and Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) as directed by the Global Account Director (GAD), Senior Account Executive (SAE) and Customer Account Executive (CAE).
* Create and deliver solution presentations in support of Corporate Marketing and Field Marketing events and programs.
* Support the Product Management activities as it relates to providing customer-specific requirements to help evolve the company's solution in the market.
* Communicate the business requirements to project/implementation team after completion of sale to ensure a smooth transition from presales to implementation stages, warranting a continuous degree of customer satisfaction.
* Build strong customer relationships by consistently setting realistic expectations early in each sales campaign and meeting or exceeding those expectations through successful execution of the company's Customer Engagement Model (CEM).
* Continuously gather knowledge of competitors and their projects and how to effectively position company solutions against them.
* Leverage and effectively communicate the company's solutions to broaden their presence with the Customers.

Experience:

* Presales experience in information technology market (software, hardware, services).
* Specific energy industry and ETRM experience is a plus.
* Exposure to virtual account team selling environment is a plus.

Education:

* Bachelor’s degree required.
* General familiarity with consultative selling training methodologies also preferred.
* Specific energy industry and ETRM knowledge is a plus.

Compensation

* Compensation is excellent and will be commensurate with experience.

Join a winning team! Send your CV/resume to kmcbrearty@claddaghresources.net


Posted by awinenger on 2008/7/25 12:09:07 (212 reads)

High growth ETRM company seeks experienced Senior Energy Sotware Consultants for their European offices office. Locations are Rotterdam, Madrid or Zurich.

Challenges of the position include:

* Works as a consulting team member or an individual consultant on for-fee product implementation, integration, or software upgrade projects.
* Leads clients through all functional phases of implementation according to Allegro Implementation Methodology.
* Day-to-day management of project deliverables and supervision of project team.
* Provides project appraisals for team members on assigned client engagements.
* Responsible for weekly status reports and communication with client regarding project status, risks and issues.
* Serves as energy industry subject matter expert in field of expertise as it relates to business software functionality. Expertise and work efforts focus primarily on the implementation of Allegro’s proprietary software products.
* Contributes industry expertise to create educational materials for internal and customer end-user training on use of Allegro applications.

Qualifications for consideration:

Ideal candidates for senior consulting will have extensive experience in the energy industry, particularly energy trading, physical movement of commodities, and energy risk management.

This is a direct client-facing role with responsibility for deliverables within scope for enterprise software implementation. Experience with other energy trading and risk management (ETRM) or related systems, particularly software implementation experience, is highly desirable.

Dynamic and credible presence, outstanding communication skills and the ability to lead and train others is a must.

If you are ready for the challenges, please send your resume to kmcbrearty@claddaghresources.net


Posted by awinenger on 2008/7/23 10:03:58 (187 reads)

High growth ETRM company seeks experienced Sales exeutive for their Calgary office. This is a hunter role where you will identify, pursue and close new sales opportunities.

• Position Company to win new business within the account by developing, communicating and driving effective selling strategies that are based on valid, customer-specific value propositions.
•Implement and execute effective sales and services strategies to ensure maximum penetration of new and assigned accounts.
• Build strong customer references by consistently setting realistic expectations early in each sales campaign and meeting or exceeding those expectations.
• Develop an extensive knowledge base of all target customers, including their business profile, key players, competition, application and technology footprint, buying processes, compelling events, political environment and strategies.

Position offers excellent excellerated commission plan on a base of $110K.

Please contact: April Winenger at awinenger@claddaghresources.net or 678-405-4400.


Posted by awinenger on 2008/7/23 9:58:33 (183 reads)

High growth ETRM company seeks a Senior Marketing Manager focused on the E & P product area.

• Experience: Product marketing and/or presales experience in information technology market (software, hardware, services). Specific energy industry and ETRM experience is a plus.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required. General familiarity with consultative selling training methodologies also preferred. Specific energy industry and ETRM knowledge and specific business processes preferred.

• Document industry solution maps mapping requirements to company's offering.
• Determine best go to market strategy by defining development requirements, partnering requirements to bridge solution gaps.
• Own, develop and foster industry analyst relationships.
• Provide input into product messaging and branding to be incorporated into company sales and presales training.
• Provide messaging and positioning to be included in all company communications including collateral, web and events.
• Participate in corporate events include company User Group, Summit and company sponsored trade shows.
• Participate in the Customer Engagement Model as a virtual team member helping support the sales and presales teams through product and industry knowledge.
• Develop and publish industry white papers supporting industry requirements and product offering.
• In general be a liaison between market requirements and company's R&D functions.

Position based in Houston, Dallas or surrounding areas.

Contact: April Winenger at awinenger@claddaghresources.net or 678-405-4400.


Posted by martha on 2008/7/22 15:47:08 (227 reads)

Position Description: Endur Openlink / Solarc Developer
Company: Confidential
Location: Houston, Texas-Houston


Role Description

We are looking for a candidate with strong ETRM product - specifically Openlink Endur / Solarc experience for providing technical solutions to projects. Candidate needs to have good exposure to trading and risk management domain and needs to provide techno-functional leadership in the above area. Also the person would be expected to help in building internal competency with ETRM products.
Responsibilities
• Reporting to Technical Architect/ Project Manager, the expectations are:
• Provide techno-functional leadership for the services provided for projects using ETRM products (Openlink – Endur / Solarc).
• Liaise with client managers/ specialists to understand the problem statements
• Provides appropriate input to the manager for planning & scheduling
• Provide Design solution for projects
• Building competencies and manage knowledge.
• Solution definition – methodology, approach and technical solution
• Provide technical leadership in development/ implementation/maintenance projects
• Proactively understand challenges and issues. Make recommendations to improve techno-functional solutions and workflows.
• Good understanding of performance issues / solutions with ETRM product implementation
• Conducts technical feasibility and validates various solution options for the requirements
• Provide technical support during build, Test and Deploy the complex enhancements/customization
• Perform code reviews of the deliverables
• Adhere to the project plan & schedule
• Provide Subject Matter expertise in specific ETRM product space


The Requirements:
• 4+ years IT work experience within energy trading and risk management
• Good experience working with Openlink Endur / Solarc product customization and support
• Good AVS scripting knowledge
• Understanding of overall enterprise architecture including integration tools, application servers etc is added advantage.
• Good understanding of the SDLC and has participated in all stages of the software development
• Good understanding of the F&O or derivatives trading
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral, essential.
• Self-motivated, strong bottom-line and techno-functional leadership, essential.
• Ability to take ownership of activities and the tenacity to ensure successful completion.
• Flexibility to travel and relocate depending on the requirement

Please contact:

o- Mamta Nilawar
o- Mindcircuit
mnilawar@mindcircuit.com
o- Direct: 508-532-4129
o- Cell: 781-640-2908
“The Mindcircuit is a peer network of top technical professionals in their fields who locate and screen the best talent on the market”


Posted by martha on 2008/7/22 15:42:39 (310 reads)

Position Description: Endur Openlink / Solarc Developer
Company: Confidential
Location: Houston, Texas-Houston


Role Description

We are looking for a candidate with strong ETRM product - specifically Openlink Endur / Solarc experience for providing technical solutions to projects. Candidate needs to have good exposure to trading and risk management domain and needs to provide techno-functional leadership in the above area. Also the person would be expected to help in building internal competency with ETRM products.
Responsibilities
• Reporting to Technical Architect/ Project Manager, the expectations are:
• Provide techno-functional leadership for the services provided for projects using ETRM products (Openlink – Endur / Solarc).
• Liaise with client managers/ specialists to understand the problem statements
• Provides appropriate input to the manager for planning & scheduling
• Provide Design solution for projects
• Building competencies and manage knowledge.
• Solution definition – methodology, approach and technical solution
• Provide technical leadership in development/ implementation/maintenance projects
• Proactively understand challenges and issues. Make recommendations to improve techno-functional solutions and workflows.
• Good understanding of performance issues / solutions with ETRM product implementation
• Conducts technical feasibility and validates various solution options for the requirements
• Provide technical support during build, Test and Deploy the complex enhancements/customization
• Perform code reviews of the deliverables
• Adhere to the project plan & schedule
• Provide Subject Matter expertise in specific ETRM product space


The Requirements:
• 4+ years IT work experience within energy trading and risk management
• Good experience working with Openlink Endur / Solarc product customization and support
• Good AVS scripting knowledge
• Understanding of overall enterprise architecture including integration tools, application servers etc is added advantage.
• Good understanding of the SDLC and has participated in all stages of the software development
• Good understanding of the F&O or derivatives trading
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral, essential.
• Self-motivated, strong bottom-line and techno-functional leadership, essential.
• Ability to take ownership of activities and the tenacity to ensure successful completion.
• Flexibility to travel and relocate depending on the requirement


 

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