Legal innovation project manager

Job Family Group:

Project Management Group

• Lead and oversee the delivery of legal innovation projects and programmes, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, translating strategic objectives into actionable plans and delivery roadmaps.
• Establish and maintain project governance, reporting, risk management, resource planning, and change control processes.
• Drive consistency and continuous improvement across PMO frameworks, tools, and delivery practices.
• Track project performance, budgets, dependencies, and risks, ensuring clarity and effective decision-making.
• Coordinate project communications and reporting across partners and project teams.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritisation, and demand management activities.
• Mentor and support colleagues, contributing to capability development and a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Competencies

Business Acumen, Coaching, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Influencing, Managing strategic partnerships, Mentoring, Organizational Knowledge, Resource and budget planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management

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In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, legal teams are increasingly at the forefront of innovation and transformation. The Legal Innovation Program Manager will lead the delivery of innovation initiatives across the Legal function, ensuring projects are effectively governed, delivered, and aligned to business objectives.

This role combines project and programme leadership, stakeholder management, and PMO excellence to drive successful outcomes while supporting the continued evolution of legal services.

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

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

Travel Requirement:

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working