Lead Business Transformation Specialist

Job summary

Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Head of Business Agility & Transformation

At bpx energy, we’re reimagining energy for people and our planet. With a focus on US onshore oil and gas operations, we’re transforming our business to delivery sustainable, efficient, and innovative solutions that drive long term value. Our Technology organization is at the forefront of this transformation, enabling the business through modern architectures, agile ways of working, and a relentless focus on operational excellence.

Role Summary

The Head of Business Agility & Transformation is a strategic partner to the CTO and executive leadership team, driving the evolution of bpx’s scaled agile capabilities and enabling enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.

This is a high impact, high visibility role that sits at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and organizational change. You’ll help bpx sustain and evolve how we work, make decisions, and deliver value, ensuring our teams are aligned, adaptive, and equipped to succeed in a rapidly changing energy landscape.

Success in this role requires exceptional communication skills, a consultative mindset, strong business and financial acumen, and the ability to connect transformation efforts to measurable business outcomes.

Key Accountabilities:

Evolve and safeguard agile ways of working by sustaining and adapting bpx’s scaled agile framework, ceremonies, and governance to remain effective as the business grows and changes.

Facilitate enterprise decision making through design and leadership of executive workshops and senior leadership offsites, strategic work sessions that translate complex challenges into clear, actionable decisions.

Enable cross functional transformation by partnering with leaders across business units to design and guide high priority initiatives, ensuring alignment, collaboration and delivery of intended outcomes.

Drive business value and ROI by connecting transformation activities to tangible results, tracking performance against KPIs, value delivery, and investment returns.

Coach and build leadership capability in agile principles, facilitation, and change leadership, meeting stakeholders where they are and guiding them through ambiguity.

Strengthen portfolio visibility and increase transparency of enterprise initiatives through integrated dashboards, dependency tracking, and cross business communications.

Promote continuous improvement and champion a culture of learning, adaptability, and iterative improvement across teams and functions.

Protect critical processes without rigid adherence to rules that hinder innovation or agility.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or related field (advanced degree preferred).

10+ years’ experience in transformation, program management, or enterprise agility roles, ideally in a Director/Senior Director capacity.

Proven success sustaining and evolving agile frameworks (Scaled Agile Framework, LeSS, or equivalent) in a complex, cross functional environment.

Demonstrated ability to facilitate at the executive level, translating strategic objectives into operational plans and measurable outcomes.

Strong financial acumen with experience linking transformation to ROI and business performance.

Experience balancing governance and agility in dynamic, high change organizations.

Exceptional relationship building skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Experience in organizational change management (OCM) and leadership coaching strongly preferred.

Consulting experience welcome, provided it’s paired with a pragmatic, outcome driven approach.

Why join our team?

How much do we pay (Base)? $165,000 - $205,000.

- Note that the pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

At bpx, we provide an excellent working environment and a reward and wellbeing package to enable your work to fit with your life. These can include, but not limited to, access to health, vision and dental insurance, flexible working schedule, paid time off policy, discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and a generous 401K matching program.

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.

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

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

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.

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