Programme Transition Manager

Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Business Support Group

Job Description:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat, and mobility to millions of people every day. We are one of the very few companies equipped to tackle some of the big sophisticated challenges that matter for the future. We have a real contribution to make to the world's ambition of a low-carbon future. Join us and be part of what we can accomplish together. You can participate in our new ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and help the world get to net zero.

Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are owning the way in making energy cleaner and better – and how you can play your part in our extraordinary team?

Join our Finance Team and advance your career as a/an

The Transition Manager will lead the delivery of projects through the complete lifecycle from aspiration through to Operations. Transition Manager ensures the projects are delivered on time, meeting business & technical requirements within the agreed budget. The projects can be standalone or part of a work stream in a program with a higher degree of complexity.  Projects are to be delivered in compliance with the GBS project management delivery standards.

Key Accountabilities:

• Deliver a Transition Project Portfolio as per pre-defined achievements, leading timely completion of all results whilst handling resources, deadlines and budgetary requirements.

• Identify and assess and funnel transformation opportunities.

• Define project scope, goals and results that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and collaborators.

• Develop detailed and comprehensive project plans and schedule project timelines and achievements using appropriate tools.

• Effectively communicate and lead project expectations to team members and customers in a timely and clear fashion.

• Lead senior business customers including sponsors, business heads, business owners and the business program team and various functional support teams in a matrix organization.

• Own management of customer expectation alignment gaps and/or gaps in meeting client expectations

• Establish project governance including all customers and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations

• Ensure all projects are maintained in the central project portfolio management tool.  Maintain the difficulty as per the predefined program/project governance and ensure project reporting is accurate and concise.

• Identify and resolve project risks/issues and potential conflicts within the project team - lead all aspects of the implementation of corrective actions and review current mitigation and recovery activities.

• Continually analyze lessons learned and build recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements

Key Challenges

• Medium Complexity projects generally centre/function specific

• Diversified range of key customers across GBS and businesses

• Leading projects across different functions and geographies

• Identifying relevant program and system deployment dependencies

• Ensure project costs are well defined and that transition work is completed within budget.

Education Criteria:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Business Administration from a recognized Institute

• Trained and/or certified in PMP, Prince2, APM or equivalent

Crucial Experience and Job Requirements:

• A minimum of 8 years total experience with 5 to 6 years of relevant Transition/Program Management experience.

• Solid understanding of Customer & Products, Finance, Procurement processes or engineering Services (Non-IT)

• Experience in leading multiple teams and capabilities to deliver complete sophisticated project scope

• Proven record leading multiple customers efficiently

• Experience handling virtual teams across multiple geographies

• Experience of working in fast-paced, high-demand, delivery oriented environments

• Strong digital literacy and sophisticated user of MS Office applications (e.g. Microsoft Project, Power Point, Excel etc.).

• Ability to apply thought leadership in providing services and solutions to customers.

• Strong commercial competence.

Proficiencies and Behaviours

• Ability to act as a project "driver", facilitating the achievement of required tasks

• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment

• Self-motivated with an enthusiastic and proactive approach

• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills

• Strong customer leadership skills - ability and confidence to challenge and influence

• Be an imaginative / Creative problem solver

• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction

• Upbeat and detailed facilitator to promote and engage a committed delivery team

Desirable Criteria:

•Vendor/Third Party management experience (including vendors, third parties, and sub-contractors)

•Experience leading delivery of cases by supervising costs and value delivered and intervening with corrective action when vital to achieve commercial outcomes

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Integration, Managing strategic partnerships, Research and insights, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability awareness and action

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.).  If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy.  This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.