Commercial LNG Projects Manager

Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Trading Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

July 28, 2025

Business unit:

Trading and Supply

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role ?

The Commercial LNG Projects Manager is an essential member of Shell NA LNG LLC (“SNALNG”) and sits within the Americas LNG Trading and Origination team.  SNALNG is part of the global Shell LNG Marketing & Trading (“SLMT”) organization, which is responsible for long-term purchases and sales of LNG, regional new market entries, maximizing value of existing contracts, contractual asset optimization and short-term trading of LNG.

With Trading and Origination, the commercial position will develop and manage a supply and sales portfolio in the region and optimize commercial value with the Elba asset, working closely with the Conventional and Downstream LNG teams.  As an individual contributor, the role works independently and leads peer groups to deliver projects from concept through commercial negotiations to commercial operations. The role will involve commercial situations within a contractual framework and ad hoc complex problem-solving skills relating to infrastructure projects that will have to be resolved within the commercial and regulatory constraints. The role will require partnership with other businesses in Shell (such as Integrated Gas, Upstream, Shipping & Maritime, Projects & Technology, Shell Midstream and Shell Energy Gas Trading) that will involve a leadership role to maximize the full value chain for Shell and ensure alignment of assumptions for deals and opportunities. The role will also involve commercial day-to-day interaction with the Elba Liquefaction/Regasification terminal and its operations (production, loadings, contractual requirements) to understand, evaluate and confirm the value being generated, providing analysis of the various commercial constructs that are available and recommendations to the broader LNG team and Senior Leadership as required.

The role will specifically require a detailed commercial understanding of contractual obligations that will allow the for contractual negotiation to minimize cost, maximize production, flexibility, and to ensure safe and timely delivery to ensure that the maximum value is being delivered.  The candidate should be able to identify the root causes of an issue, evaluate potential solutions supported by economic modelling, present those solutions with the most effective recommendation, and then implement such recommendation.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing the commercial input by leading high value LNG infrastructure projects through all phases – representing the SLMT business and working across all functional areas and with external partners to generate and protect value by working with other teams on the scope/design the project, obtain competitive bids, agree the budget, manage the approval process, ensure the construction and timeline remain within commercial parameters. Contributes original ideas towards improving commercial outcomes, problem resolution and risk mitigation where it applies to infrastructure projects, Terminal Management, purchases and sales of LNG.
• This role is responsible for the commercial interface between the business, the external stakeholders/owners, Trading, Operations, Downstream LNG, Conventional LNG and the Terminal team.  
• Contributes to Regional Americas strategy, provides subject matter expertise towards the decision taking of new projects, sales and supply deals.
• Responsible for economic modelling, risk analysis and mitigation for new commercial deals as well as existing commercial contracts. Prepare budgets/forecasts for infrastructure enhancements and regular operations, ensure adherence to contracts and perform post deal analysis and reconciliation on deal P&L against pre-deal economics and assumptions.
• Providing commercial input and contribute to the negotiation of LNG purchases and sales of up to 20 years in duration.
• Be the commercial subject matter expert on infrastructure to the following stakeholders:  Origination, Portfolio Structuring, Trading, Shipping, Finance, Gas & Power Trading, and Projects & Technology to maximize value from terminal operations
• Partner with the Terminal team and leverage commercial contractual knowledge as well as understanding of how the facility operates to debottleneck capacity, monitor maintenance projects, upgrade the facility and improve production and loading reliability.
• Monitor and interpret proposed regulatory changes (local and Federal) and providing input on their impact to price such that advise is given to Trading, Origination, Do