Staff Delivery Manager

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

About us
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!
 

Job Summary

As a Staff Delivery Manager at bp PLC, you will be a key leader in ensuring the successful delivery of technology projects in service to energy trading.  Although this role is enduring and in an area that historically has more project demand than resources to deliver, the immediate need for the next ~16-months is to provide local delivery leadership on a major project that will integrate bp’s global oil trading ETRM with the ERP of a recently acquired Brazilian bioenergy firm.  This complex project is the top priority of bp’s Chicago business, and will involve 4 critical partners to be successful:  (1) Chicago bp trading business, (2) bp trading Digital delivery, (3) Brazil bp Bioenergy business, and (4) Brazilian Digital ERP Delivery team.  This project will require tight coordination between these groups, and this role is specifically accountable for delivering the change associated with bp Digital’s delivery. 

Job Responsibilities

* Lead and manage the delivery of complex technology projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.  This will typically involve managing multiple engineering delivery teams.
* Collaborate with customers across various business units to understand their needs and translate them into actionable project plans and technical requirements.

* Manage scope, risks and mitigation strategies throughout the delivery lifecycle.

* Take the needs and challenges of the team’s stakeholders and partner with them to create and update the delivery roadmap and project plans (as needed) to support business goals.

* Understand the purpose of the work and value to be delivered by the team.

* Actively review the roadmap and plan ahead by identifying the work to be done, available capacity, and capability to deliver.  Identify dependencies and work with other teams to agree timescales. 

* Work with engineering programme leadership to plan capacity and negotiate timelines and scope providing options for what can be achieved realistically. 

* Ensure that the team's backlog is up to date; actively support, feed into and improve team and wider reporting and visibility. 

* In collaboration with the team, support optimal quantities of work in progress for each stage of the delivery lifecycle and balance capacity and work intake to optimize flow. Negotiate work intake with customers and product. 

* Ensure agreed definitions of ready and done are adhered to by the team and external customers. 

* Identify bottlenecks in the delivery process and take remedial action. Track and analyze cycle time.

* Facilitate discussions within the team (such as through retrospectives) to identify options for process improvement. 

* Handle and mitigate, as needed, relevant risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions.

* Escalate where needed in a timely manner.   

* Bring together innovations, lessons learned and successes and share them to other teams. 

* Promote a culture of one-on-one feedback within the team.  

* Educate team members on agile ways of working, championing ceremonies and ‘being agile’ over ‘doing agile’ or equivalent experience. 
* Facilitate and lead Group Problem Solving sessions to identify and resolve complex technical and operational challenges.
* Develop strong communication channels with technical teams, business partners, and external vendors to ensure alignment and visibility.

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Job Qualifications

* Validated experience in a Staff Delivery Manager or similar leadership role within a large, complex organization.
* Successfully handled delivery team(s) within a large programme building bespoke enterprise platforms and applications.

* Demonstrated strong Commercial Competence with the ability to understand business drivers and translate them into solutions.
* Exceptional Communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

* Experience running IT projects with multiple stakeholder involvement and comfo