ConocoPhillips is a leading oil and gas company, which is hiring Project Continuous Improvement Managers for contract positions. This role will provide necessary project management fundamentals to assist in the organization and progress of the various IT tools and projects we have in-flight to improve efficiency and forecasting excellence of our growing JV business. IT Project Management - ability to define scope, seek alignment from stakeholders, build visuals to communicate progress on milestones and hold IT or Business professionals accountable to meet deadlines.
Key Accountabilities
Shapes and drives a project from initiation stage to project close.
Workflow mapping and synergy identification
Ensures that project vision and goals are clearly defined and that key stakeholders are identified and on-boarded.
Defines the project plan, roles and responsibilities and communications plan.
Manages multiple stakeholders across multiple business and technical groups
Manages project scope progress and spend with ability to create visualizations for transparent communication and accountability (i.e. reports)
Creates status reports for management stakeholders
Leads the project methodology, ensuring that templates and work instructions are clear for all project phases and deliverables.
Creates and maintains the project plan.
Drives to ensure that issues and risks are actioned and mitigated in a timely manner.
Possesses the ability to ramp-up quickly and identify synergies to improve efficiency and mitigate systems/functional risk.
Ability to generate key performance indicators on work processes and or business metrics to influence behavior change and or performance
Required Skills and Experience
10-15+ Years of Industry O&G related experience (can be within IT/OT space as Business Analyst, Engineer or Project Manager)
Providing oversight on either a portfolio and or project initial design to execution/handover
Experience delivering and or leading business solutions which deal with software and or cloud technology / multiple databases
Can-do attitude with ability to find consensus and eliminate roadblocks
Able to manage multiple task, projects and priorities
Able to serve as a mentor to junior integration and or coordinator roles on the team
Experience managing cross-team relationships
Basic level of proficiency with Agile principles
Basic level of proficiency with Microsoft O365 applications: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams and Word
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree or higher in Business Admin/Mgmt, Project Management, Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, other related business/tech field
Or Scrum Master Certification
ConocoPhillips contract opportunities are for project-based or other short-term engagements that require specialized skills. Successful candidates for contract opportunities will not be considered employees of ConocoPhillips or any of its subsidiaries nor will candidates be eligible for employment benefits. Candidates looking for regular full-time employment opportunities should begin their search here:https://careers.conocophillips.com/
