Salary: £29,000 – 58,000 per year
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience in IT operations, preferably within energy trading, commodities trading, or a similar fast‑paced and volatile environment.
- Experience supporting business‑critical applications and infrastructure services, including ETRM and Endur.
- Strong background in operational governance, risk, controls, and service management.
- Experience owning operating plans, budgets, and service lifecycles.
- Proven ability to lead transformation toward an automated, data‑driven operating model.
- Experience partnering with senior business leadership to design and run effective operating models.
- Ability to lead and develop a high‑performing operations team.
- Understanding of information risk management, IT controls compliance, health and safety, and relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- We hold end‑to‑end accountability for IT operations across the trading portfolio, ensuring secure, resilient, and cost‑effective delivery of business‑critical application and infrastructure services.
- We lead the transformation of operations toward an automated, data‑driven operating model while safeguarding business continuity.
- We own the IT operating plan, budget, and service lifecycle.
- We ensure strong governance, risk management, and controls across the portfolio.
- We hold service providers to clear outcome‑based performance standards.
- We partner with business leadership to design and run a differentiated operating model that enables speed, scale, and sustained value delivery.
- We lead a high‑performing operations team and drive operational excellence.
- We are responsible for operational readiness for new demand, changes, and projects impacting the portfolio.
- We analyse and understand business functional and non‑functional requirements and agree the approach to operate.
- We manage information risk, IT controls compliance, and conformance with health and safety policies and legal and regulatory requirements.
- We are accountable for general controls and ensuring controls are in place.
- We drive the teams transformation goals and objectives.
More
We are recruiting on behalf of our global commodities trading client in London for a Senior IT Operations Manager to start as soon as possible on an initial contract through March 2027. This is an important senior leadership role within our Energy Trading business, supporting a major programme to transform processes, ways of working, data, and the implementation of an ETRM across the energy trading portfolios. We offer the opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast‑moving environment, working with a high‑performing team and a client that values operational excellence, strong governance, and bottom‑line results. We are also a recruitment partner with broad experience across Finance, Marketing, IT, and Engineering in the UK.
last updated 25 week of 2026
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