Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Role : Senior Delivery Manager - Trading & Supply [Operations Delivery & DevOps]

You will work with

This team creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to move forward while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.

• Deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions

• Driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models

• Collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions

• Originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them

• Protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks.

Let me tell you about the role

The Senior 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 work is built to meet quality, budget, and timeline requirements. They work closely with multi-functional teams - alignment with business goals and customer needs, enabling the seamless delivery of impactful solutions.

This role demonstrates management of delivering initiatives and services involving multiple collaborators and teams. They effectively lead delivery teams, balancing strategic priorities with tactical execution to achieve business outcomes. They guide resource planning and financial tracking, ensuring budgets and timelines are met without compromising quality. Focal point of contact for stakeholders, managing expectations, and resolving intensified risks and dependencies. They promote Agile methodologies and continuously improve team performance through feedback and process optimization.

What you will deliver

• The role will advocate and lead in this and promote a culture of security and safety in everything that we do.

• Technology delivery management: Oversee projects involving the development and implementation of products, platforms, and business processes to achieve desired business outcomes. Create and handle roadmaps, schedules, and budgets. Act as the main liaison between collaborators, 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. Identify common issues across business division and help design a standardized solution for all. Proactively identify risks, suggest fixes for defects and support timely resolution of critical production issues.

• Data-driven decision-making: Know 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. Expertly and independently make decisions when and as required, drive decision makings toward common goals while being responsible for outcomes.

• Resource and vendor management: Strategically handle internal teams, external suppliers, and technology partners to balance capacity and ensure efficient delivery. Allocate tasks to vendor teams. Handle, plan, review and influence resource capacity.

• Financial management: Oversee budget planning, allocation, and supervising to ensure alignment with business objectives. Supervise financial performance, control costs, and deliver accurate reporting to support decision-making and optimize resource utilization across projects, platforms, or services. Ensure on operational integrity, assuring operational compliance with architectural and security standards, as well as compliance and policy controls refined by Strategy, Digital Security or other relevant Regulatory, Legal and Compliance functions.

• Stakeholder management: Work with geographically diverse business groups and support teams to deliver solutions effectively and efficiently. Following the change management procedures for smooth and timely delivery of solutions. Develop excellent business relationship with collaborators, become the single PoC for supported applications and technology solutions.

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

• Experience with Azure DevOps principles, DevOps frameworks and operations delivery.

• Experience in Power Platform/Power Automation/Power BI and coding skills with Python.

• Good understanding of relational databases - Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases/queries.

• Knowledge of AWS skills, navigating through data analytics services/databases, and experience with data platforms such as Databricks / Azure Datahub or similar ones.

• Data visualization and reporting tools using PowerBI, Microsoft Office 365 skills on Excel integration and SharePoint.

• 5+ years experience in IT industry with experience in designing, planning, implementing, maintaining, and documenting solutions.

• Experience in the application of modern Service Delivery methods - Site Reliability Engineering to traditional ITIL, and understanding of Product Based delivery

• Experience in end-to-end project lifecycle including requirement analysis, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Experience with large-scale enterprise-wide IT environments containing multiple technologies, servers, and logical environment.

• Experience in strategic planning, demand management and portfolio prioritization / management to ensure compatibility with current systems, assessing cost implications and operational impacts.

About bp

Bp is a global energy business with a purpose to reimagine energy for people and our planet. We aim to be a very different kind of energy company by 2030, helping the world reach net zero and improving people’s lives. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed. Join bp and become part of the team building our future!

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.

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:

Agility core practices, Analytics, Business Analysis, Coaching, Communication, Configuration management and release, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management, System Design

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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.