Change Initiative Portfolio Management Lead

Description

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world's energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment.

Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products.

We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve.

As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Lead, Operations Change Portfolio Management with experience in continuous improvement implementation within the Oil & Gas Industry, facilitation, and data management.

Depending on the qualifications of the applicants, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level.

Role Summary :

The Lead, Operations Change Portfolio Management is responsible for overall coordination and management of the Change Initiative Portfolio, providing guidance and governance through the Change Initiative Lifecycle at the individual change initiative level, and interfacing with cross-functional Change Management resources.

Responsibilities & Essential Functions include :

Communication and Facilitation

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and change integration across portfolio.
• Support organization wide change-based communications as appropriate to portfolio.
• Participate in program and Operational Excellence engagements to ensure appropriate change initiatives are entered into the portfolio for Change Initiative Lifecycle Management.
• Liaison between initiative leads, stakeholders, SMEs, and change management support services to ensure stakeholders are appropriately integrated within the change initiative lifecycle.
• Act as a member of the cross-functional Enterprise Change Management team, ensuring initiatives are reviewed for the appropriate level of recommended Change Management.

Change Initiative Intake, Analysis, and Validation

• Work with Initiative Leads to ensure completeness of initiative proposal and requirements to ensure key information is integrated into initiative impact, risk, benefits analyses and initiative proposal package.
• Assist in stakeholder identification and analysis of initiative impacts including risks and benefits.
• Ensure accurate proposal packages are developed for initial Steering Committee Review and prioritization.
• Ensure initiative risk and benefit and stakeholder impact analysis are validated and updated through phases as appropriate.

Change Initiative Portfolio Management

• Support decision making by senior leadership on the initiative portfolio by tracking and presenting initiative attributes, milestones, resources, and statuses.
• Work with initiative leads to ensure frequent updates are recorded in the Change Portfolio tool - tracking status updates, variances from key milestone dates, scope changes, etc.
• Culminate and provide updates to Steering Committee for Review and support facilitated reprioritization.
• Track initiatives, throughout their lifecycle, to ensure integration of the appropriate support resources.

Data Analysis and Reporting

• Provide transparency of information to the organization through accurate and effective reporting / depiction of the change portfolio roadmap.
• Support change prioritization review process through real-time manipulation of data from the Change Portfolio to present senior leadership with visual depictions of potential impacts, dependencies, constraints, and opportunities.
• Analyze Initiative / Change Portfolio for risks imposed by shifts in schedule or scope of initiatives.

Change Initiative Lifecycle Controls and Support

• Maintain Initiative Lifecycle Controls process and documentation and identify and implement areas for improvement.
• Maintain and report on Change Initiative Portfolio KPIs to monitor and manage the effectiveness of Buckeye's change control processes.

Position Requirements :

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant discipline is preferred.
• 3+ years experience within the Oil & Gas Industry.
• Strong analytical skills.
• The successful applicant will have a high degree of proficiency with MS Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, etc.).
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Organizational, project, and time management skills.
• Knowledge of building models and forecasting.
• Ability to lead improvement projects.
• Self-motivated and a team player.
• Ability to travel up to 20%.

Certificates & Licenses :

None required.

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities :

• Requires excellent planning, scheduling, and coordination skills.
• Ability to understand and solve complex business and technical problems.
• Engaged team player mentality.

Essential Functions :

• This position requires the ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or / quantitative productivity standards.
• This role requires the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• This position requires compliance with all personnel policies.

Physical & Safety Requirements :

Normal Office Environment

About You :

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess a demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance.

Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount. You must work independently and be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal and external customers, and when handling sensitive and confidential information.

Buckeye wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of its employees that result in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes.

People First Culture :

From managing over 5,000 miles of pipeline to commercializing clean energy projects, our people collaborate to provide world-class service and meet the changing energy needs of our customers.

Our employee-first culture means that we invest in our employees and equip them to be fully contributing members of high performing teams.

We are focused on collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, accountability, and professional development. We want the best in you to bring out the best in us.

Join us as we work together to build a business that is responsive to the needs of the future while continuing to serve the energy needs of communities today.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)