Staff Delivery Manager

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You will join a geographically dispersed global team of dynamic professionals strongly focused on delivering value to our customers.  As a key member of this newly established team, you will work within a framework built on foundational principles of accountability, trust and integrity.

Your new colleagues You are from diverse backgrounds but unified by a shared commitment to customer satisfaction.  Together, we leverage the broad range of complementary technical ERP and management skills within the team to deliver ERP packages and features in support of bp’s mission to deliver energy to its external customers.  

This team holds primary responsibility for delivering ERP platforms to P&O (production and operations), the entity at the core of bp’s operations.  In addition, the group forms a vital part of a larger organization within bp’s digital function, which manages and operates the core ERP services. The team also provides essential technology resources for the Quantum S/4 Transformation Programme, ensuring bp’s continued digital evolution and operational excellence.

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The Delivery Manager plays a critical role translating strategy into actionable steps and driving successful delivery of products, platforms, and services. This hands-on role is focused on day-to-day decision-making and ensuring the right products, platforms and services are being built and delivered efficiently. This role makes key decisions on feature development, balances stakeholder priorities, and ensures that deliverables are built to meet quality, budget, and timeline requirements. They work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs, enabling the seamless delivery of impactful solutions.

What you will deliver

• Technology delivery management: Oversee projects involving the development and implementation of products, platforms, and business processes to achieve desired business outcomes. Create and manage roadmaps, schedules, and budgets. Act as the main liaison between stakeholders, development teams, and business units globally dispersed, at various levels within and outside of bp. Incorporate Agile frameworks to align and track project progress, resolve dependencies, and ensure continuous delivery of value.
• Data-driven decision-making: Monitor a product, platform, or service's health and key performance characteristics to increase performance, ensure compliance, and optimize operation. Champion transparency across bp by showcasing work in progress, elevating metrics and seeking regular feedback from internal collaborators and users.
• Resource and vendor management: Strategically manage internal teams, external suppliers, and technology partners to balance capacity and ensure efficient delivery without compromising quality.
• Financial management: Oversee budget planning, allocation, and tracking to ensure alignment with business objectives. Monitor financial performance, control costs, and provide accurate reporting to support decision-making and optimize resource utilization across projects, platforms, or services.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• Significant experience working across complex, globally dispersed businesses.
• Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience.
• Successful application of Agile, Lean, and project delivery methods.
• Excellence in balancing strategic priorities with tactical execution, with solid attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication and influence skills, with the ability to engage with a broad range of collaborators and prioritize demands
• Motivated by the challenges of solving complex problems and a passion for making things happen
• Technical and functional awareness of ERP systems, ECC & S/4 HANA FI CO, MM, Logistics - Supply Chain Management, Plant Maintenance

At this level, the Delivery Manager leads multiple, interdependent projects or programs, driving the execution of strategic objectives and managing cross-functional delivery teams. They exhibit strong leadership by mentoring junior team members and influencing stakeholders across the organization. They ensure alignment between business goals and delivery outcomes, implement best practices for resource allocation and financial management, and resolve complex dependencies across teams. They are skilled at optimizing processes and fostering high-performing, collaborative teams to deliver impactful results.

About bp

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

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