Programme Manager

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven programme and project delivery skills, with experience in both agile and waterfall methodologies. 
• Strong domain knowledge in business lines such as Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR, and Capital Projects. 
• Proficiency with modern technologies, including cloud, mobile, software-as-a-service, and digital platforms. 
• Strong leadership skills, with experience in leading cross-functional teams and inspiring high performance. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and align diverse groups. 
• Entrepreneurial mindset, with a focus on value creation, critical thinking, and the ability to develop compelling stories that drive stakeholder engagement. 
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to assess risks and make informed trade-offs between cost, time, quality, and risk. 

Desired Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated commitment to values and safety, with a track record of delivering commercial results while maintaining compliance. 
• Ability to build trust with internal and external stakeholders and contribute positively to societal goals. 
• Experience in mobilising and leading teams across organisational boundaries and working collaboratively to deliver outcomes. 
• A passion for continuous improvement, with a learner mindset and the ability to share knowledge and best practices with the team. 

Key Role Responsibilities

• Deliver programmes, projects, and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk, and benefit profiles, ensuring compliance with the organisation’s standards and control framework. 
• Proactively analyse variances against plan to assess risks that could affect scope, time, cost, and quality, and take appropriate action to mitigate risks and ensure successful delivery. 
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including users, customers, and suppliers, to ensure they benefit fully from the delivered products, services, and changes. 
• Develop and implement effective change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavioural changes and maximise benefits for the organisation. 
• Align stakeholder expectations and ensure timely and effective decision-making across the programme lifecycle. 
• Mobilise and lead teams composed of staff and suppliers across organisational boundaries and the natural team, ensuring the team has the necessary skills, capacity, and experience to achieve required outcomes. 
• Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation, and providing stretching assignments. 
• Understand, assess, and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering the project and business constraints to ensure optimal execution. 
• Continuously assess programme risks, making trade-offs between cost, time, quality, and risk to maximise the overall benefits, while managing the business cases of constituent projects and workstreams. 
• Ensure all deliverables, whether software, processes, or operational solutions, meet the necessary standards of quality, efficiency, and value to the business. 

As a leader in the natural team, the Programme Manager will be expected to continuously develop leadership behaviours, including: 

• Live our values and goal zero – Ensure safety, compliance, and respect for values in all decision-making processes. 
• Maximise performance – Focus on priorities, drive improvements, collaborate across teams, and deliver bottom-line commercial results. 
• Grow trust – Build strong, long-term relationships with customers, partners, and external stakeholders, making a positive contribution to society. 
• Engage and inspire – Connect everyone to a shared purpose, inspire teams to perform their best, and provide development, coaching, and honest feedback. 
• Learner mindset – Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging learning from both mistakes and successes, and maintain a safe, open environment for speaking up.