Program Manager

Description

Job Title: Programme Manager

Job Location: UK Remote (with occasional site visits to Canary Wharf)

Contract Length: 6 Months (Possibility of extension)

Industry: Oil and Energy

Working Hours: 8 per day/40 per week

What you will do:

Develop the strategic roadmap for BP’s Mobility & Convenience (M&C) retail segment.

Engage and collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize strategic initiatives across multiple workstreams.

Drive implementation of transformation initiatives using structured project management approaches.

Support overall business performance improvement within a major strategic transformation program.

What you will have:

Core Consulting Skills

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving:

• Ability to break down complex business problems into structured components.
• Experience performing root‑cause analysis, opportunity sizing, and scenario planning.
• Comfortable synthesizing large datasets, insights, and stakeholder input into clear recommendations.

Analytical & Quantitative Skills:

• Skilled at building financial models, forecasting, performance metrics, and KPI dashboards.
• Able to evaluate business cases, investment proposals, or strategic initiatives.
• Experience translating quantitative findings into clear, actionable storylines.

Executive‑Ready Communication:

• Writes succinct, high‑clarity slides, memos, and strategic deliverables.
• Able to deliver C‑suite‑ready narratives grounded in data and evidence.
• Experience presenting strategies, roadmaps, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Transformation & Project Leadership Skills

Transformation Experience:

• Experience supporting or leading transformation programs — including operational, strategic, digital, or organizational change.
• Skilled in identifying transformation workstreams, dependencies, and success measures.

Project Management Expertise:

• Able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Creates charters, project plans, timelines, and milestone tracking.
• Monitors progress, risks, issues, and interdependencies across teams.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence:

• Skilled at managing cross‑functional teams and senior business partners.
• Strong facilitation skills — able to align diverse viewpoints and drive consensus.
• Ability to diplomatically challenge assumptions while maintaining trust.

Change Management:

• Familiarity with organizational change principles and transition planning.
• Able to anticipate adoption barriers and prepare communications or training plans.

Industry & Domain Skills

Energy / Oil & Gas (Nice-to-Have):

• Understanding of downstream retail, convenience, fuel operations, or energy sector dynamics.
• Familiarity with topics like retail transformation, mobility trends, or network optimization.

Retail (Nice-to-Have):

• Insight into customer experience, retail operations, merchandising, or store performance.
• Knowledge of trends in convenience retail, mobility hubs, or consumer behaviour.

While not required, these domain experiences help a consultant quickly grasp BP’s M&C business context.

Soft Skills & Behavioural Competencies

High Emotional Intelligence:

• Ability to build rapport, read stakeholder dynamics, and manage expectations.
• Bias for Action
• Takes initiative to push work forward amid ambiguity.
• Comfortable navigating a fast‑moving transformation environment.
• Ownership & Accountability
• Takes responsibility for deliverables, timelines, and quality.
• Adaptability
• Flexible in approach, able to pivot as priorities shift.
• Learning Agility
• Quickly absorbs new business knowledge and adapts frameworks to new contexts.

Tools & Technical Skills

• PowerPoint / Storyboarding (expert level)
• Excel modeling & analysis
• Project management tools (MS Project, Smartsheet, Asana, etc.)
• Data visualization (Power BI or similar — optional but valuable)