Program Manager- CFV (Houston, TX, US, 77056)

LyondellBasell

Experience: 15+ yrs
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

Backbone
cross functional
end-to-end
Gate
portfolio management
ERP

About the role

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

Come Join an Inclusive Team

The Program Manager is responsible for leading large-scale, complex business transformations enabled by DT. This role provides end-to-end program leadership across governance, planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment between business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and DT leadership. The first major program will be leading Connected for Value, a complex, multi-workstream technology initiative that will provide the digital backbone to enable new Trading business at LYB. Managing Connected for Value budget of $25M+ Opex and $85M+ in the next 5 years on the program. Directly and indirectly managing 10-50 FTE, including staff and vendors.

As a new Program Manager supporting the company’s entry into the Trading business, this role will bring structure, requirement discipline, and integrated planning to a fast paced and highly engaged business environment. The Program Manager drives clarity, consistency, and predictability across all delivery teams and ensures that the Trading business receives coordinated, high quality technology capabilities critical to safe and efficient operations.

A Day in the Life

Program Leadership & Governance

Accountable for integrated program outcomes across multiple DT domains.
Lead the planning, execution, governance, and delivery of a complex multi workstream program, ensuring alignment to DT methodologies, Stage Gate processes, and PMO standards.
Establish consistent program level structure, escalation paths, decision forums, and reporting to ensure clarity and accountability across all teams.
Define and maintain the integrated program roadmap, ensuring alignment between business priorities, technical feasibility, and resource availability.
Partner and collaborate with the Business Interface Trading Director to establish a one-team mindset and approach.

Requirement Management & Business Alignment

Establish thorough processes for gathering requirements, setting priorities, and managing changes to make sure the evolving needs of the Trading business are properly captured, reviewed, and overseen by the Business Interface Director and Business Analysts.

Serve as the primary liaison between Business Interface (BI) and DT delivery teams to ensure program goals, requirements, and scope remain aligned. Support the BI Director with Trading business stakeholders as needed.
Facilitate cross functional workshops to ensure requirements translate into actionable technical deliverables.

Risk, Dependency & Issue Management

Proactively identify, track, and resolve risks, dependencies, and issues across all workstreams.
Ensure risks are escalated with clear mitigation plans and that decisions are made with full transparency to DT and business leadership.

Program Delivery Excellence

Lead integrated planning across multiple DT teams including Architecture, Software Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, ERP, and vendors.
Ensure timely, high-quality deliverables by coordinating across PMs, SMEs, technical leads, and business stakeholders.
Monitor scope, budget, schedule, and resource utilization at the program level, ensuring early detection of deviations and corrective actions.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

Provide consistent and structured communication to executives, business partners, DT leadership, and program stakeholders.
Prepare program level dashboards, status reports, and communications that provide clear insights into progress, risks, and upcoming decisions.
Facilitate executive steering committee meetings, ensuring timely preparation of materials and alignment across business and DT leaders.

Vendor & Resource Management

Coordinate vendors and external partners across all workstreams, ensuring alignment to Statements of Work (SOWs), deliverables, and performance expectations.
Partner with DT leadership to forecast resource needs, plan capacity across PMs and technical teams, and ensure teams are staffed appropriately for program success.

You Bring This Value

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Economics, or a related field preferred.
15+ years of project and program management experience delivering large, complex technology initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
Required: Experience leading large, complex, multi-team technology programs in fast-moving business environments
Required: Experience in Energy, Trading, Commodities, or New Business / M&A technology stand-up
Technical & Professional Skills

Strong understanding of enterprise technology delivery, integration patterns, and cross functional dependencies.
Proficiency with project governance frameworks, Stage Gate processes, and portfolio management practices.
Ability to drive disciplined requirement management and structured delivery in environments with evolving business priorities.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, able to translate between business and technical stakeholders.
Strong leadership presence and ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
Ability to manage ambiguity and bring structure to fast-paced, dynamic environments.
Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with business leaders, vendors, and cross functional DT teams.

Key Success Measures

First 12-18 months

Establishing governance and cadence
Stabilizing delivery predictability
Earning executive trust

Delivery of program milestones on scope, schedule, and budget.
High stakeholder satisfaction and alignment across Trading, BI, and DT partners.
Effective management of requirements, risks, dependencies, and change controls.
Consistent adherence to DT governance and quality standards.
Improved coordination, efficiency, and delivery outcomes across all workstreams.

Competencies

Build Partnerships

Drive Innovation

Grow Capabilities

Promote Inclusion

Motivational Fit

Technical Skills

Deliver Results

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