Project Change Manager

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bp’s Supply, Trading & Shipping (ST&S) organisation is undertaking a multi‑year digital and data investment programme designed to accelerate growth, strengthen commercial performance, and deliver critical new capabilities across the business. This transformation will directly contribute to ST&S’ gross margin and enable the organisation to operate with greater agility, insight, and efficiency.

As part of this programme, we are recruiting a Project Change Manager to lead the people‑focused elements of change for a major project with impacts across ST&S. This is a fixed‑term contract for 12 months+, with the opportunity to shape and embed meaningful, sustainable change across a global organisation.

The Project Change Manager ensures that the people side of change — including shifts in processes, systems, technology, roles, and culture — is effectively managed to deliver successful outcomes. The role partners closely with project and programme teams to design and implement structured change management plans that maximise adoption, minimise resistance, and support business readiness.

• Develop and implement change management strategies aligned to project objectives.
• Identify key stakeholders, assess change impacts, and define engagement, communication, and training requirements.
• Ensure strong alignment between project delivery milestones and business readiness activities.

• Build trusted relationships with project sponsors, senior leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver clear, targeted communications that drive understanding, commitment, and adoption.
• Facilitate workshops, briefings, and feedback sessions to support two‑way dialogue and stakeholder agreement.

• Analyse change impacts on roles, processes, and organisational structures.
• Assess and track business readiness and adoption throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify risks and resistance points, developing mitigation strategies where needed.

• Partner with subject matter experts and business leads to define learning needs and develop training materials.
• Coordinate training delivery and provide support to ensure a smooth transition to new ways of working.

• Define and monitor change success metrics and feedback loops.
• Report progress, risks, and insights to project and programme governance forums.
• Capture lessons learned and share procedures across teams and projects.

• Demonstrates curiosity, integrity, and emotional intelligence.
• Builds trust and fosters collaboration across diverse teams.
• Adapts approach to suit changing priorities and contexts.
• Focuses on outcomes and value delivery.
• Champions continuous improvement and inclusive change.

• Proven experience in a change management role within complex technology transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple organisational levels.
• Experience applying structured change methodologies (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR, Kotter, or equivalent).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Collaborative, empathetic, and resilient approach to driving change in ambiguous environments.

• Experience working within a trading or commercial energy environment.

Why join us?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

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

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