Staff Project Manager - Workforce, Change & Engagement

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

This role is responsible for a key workstream within the TTAI team. You will lead a key workstream which may include people topics, delivery methodologies and/or artifact creation to support change and engagement efforts across technology. You will drive communications, embed change and align cross-functional initiatives, with a focus on the workforce and what it takes for people to adapt and thrive. The Staff Project Manager plays a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the strategic transformation agenda of the Technology Transformation, Analytics & Insights team (TTAI). The role requires a strong blend of critical thinking, change leadership, design thinking, communication & engagement and delivery execution.

This role is a one year in length, covering parental leave.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Strong understanding of technology delivery, digital or physical
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and partner management skills
• Strategic perspective with the ability to translate vision into executable plans and communication strategies
• Experience working in matrixed, global environments with cross-functional teams
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in complex environments
• Evidence of applying design thinking to complex transformations
• Understanding of bp’s operating model and company structure
• Evidence of being a committed team player

Desirable Attributes:

• Familiarity with transformation frameworks such as Disciplined Agile, SAFe, or similar is a plus.
• Experience with change management, program delivery, and transformation is a plus but not a hard requirement.
• Passion for continuous improvement and fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion and high performance.
• Experience mentoring and coaching others or active membership in employee founded support groups

What You’ll Do:

• Align team members and the wider Technology team around a shared change vision through skillful communications.
• Help teams adapt to changes in structures, processes, and tools.
• Prepare the organization to embrace new ways of working and assess the impact on our workforce.
• Develop change strategies and roadmaps that provide clarity and focus.
• Build engagement and trust to enable sustained adoption.
• Support change across large-scale transformations.
• Support the realization of business value and long-term success.
• Collaborate and engage with customers across technology, business and the TTAI to understand difficulties, solutions, and to champion the creation and use of change and engagement plans
• Partner with technology leadership to ensure that all initiatives work towards the overarching technology strategy and focus on enabling employees to thrive.

We are in a constantly evolving world with the rise of AI, geopolitical tensions and changes in energy demand. bp is evolving to a downstream and upstream model to best serve the changing world and within bp, Technology is at the heart of this evolution.

This role provides the opportunity to work alongside Technology leadership to deliver key initiatives that will fundamentally change the way that Technology works at bp supporting the business shift to a Upstream/Downstream model.

There will be the opportunity to work on broad initiatives with high levels of ambiguity. The role will evolve as priorities within the change agenda shift, but the role will maintain a high leadership focus to improve as a Technology organisation.

You will work with:

The Transformation, Analytics and Insights (TAI) team reports directly to the EVP Technology and is distributed globally across US, UK, India and Malaysia. Our team Credo brings us together to ensure that we work as one team together regardless of location. We work to ensure that Technology is an efficient, effective and trusted partner for the bp business. Our activities span from creating tooling to support improved delivery efficiency to supporting transformation activity and mergers & acquisitions. An important part of this work is the change and engagement aspect that touches everything we do in TTAI and across Technology, focusing on how we bring our workforce along on the journey and enabling them through the right processes, tools and ways of working. We are tightly coupled across the team to Technology leadership and highly visible within the Technology organization.

Workforce, Change & Engagement within the TAI team is a team of trusted advisors working alongside TAI, SVPs and VPs to shape and communicate transformation activities, with a focus on workforce and bringing our people along on the journey. We act as a consultancy, providing short engagements with longer-term governance to ensure that initiatives are embedded and standards in communication, change and engagement are in place. We problem solve for our SVPs and VPs, leveraging deep relationships across the TAI team and Technology. The pace is fast and changable; we care deeply about each other, are kind even when it is tough to speak the truth and have each others back.

Because the TTAI team supports many different workstreams we are often required to flex and accommodate changing demands from the organization. Whilst individuals will be assigned to a specific team, we anticipate that there will be occasional need to support other TTAI workstreams.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

.

Future Location Notice:  This role will start in Sunbury, London. bp has announced a planned office move to Timber Square, London, with all positions currently advertised in Sunbury, including this one, expected to relocate around Q4 2027-Q1 2028. This presents an exciting opportunity for all employees and leaders to come together in one London location. The specific date of the move will be confirmed closer to the time.

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/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 adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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.