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)