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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)