Our client is a foremost firm in the economy's Oil and gas (Upstream) industry/sector. It is an indigenous energy company situated in Lagos, Nigeria. The organisation has vast experience managing, enhancing, exploring, and producing oil and Gas.
We are looking to recruit a Business Transformation and Benchmarking Manager to drive strategic transformation initiatives across the organisation, focusing on improving operational efficiency, profitability, and overall business performance. This person will lead the identification, analysis, and implementation of best practices through benchmarking against industry standards and peers. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify areas for transformation and deliver actionable strategies that lead to sustained organisational improvements.
Job Responsibilities

• Supporting the executives and team in establishing a cost and competitive performance culture that instils an external benchmark-driven mindset, promotes transparency, and drives ownership of targets.
• Co-ordinate the multiple efforts across the organisation to drive consistency and coordination for benchmarking and cost performance monitoring.
• Ensure benchmarking exercises and like-for-like comparisons across countries, regions, and assets are performed to evaluate relative positions and identify gaps in cost performance.
• Work with teams to improve the transparency and understanding of costs and undertake the analysis to identify and target cost reductions accurately.
• Assist asset managers and support functions in developing improvement initiatives and gap closure roadmaps.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to drive accelerated performance improvement.
• Work with internal and external parties to measure and benchmark the company’s performance versus industry competitors.
• Highlight critical Free Cash Flow improvement areas and levers that require executive focus and push (i.e. Supply Chain efficiency, Maintenance Execution, Logistics)
• Coordinate the multiple efforts across the organisation to drive consistency and coordination in benchmarking and cost performance monitoring.
• Ensure benchmarking exercises and like-for-like comparisons across regionals and assets to evaluate relative positions and identify gaps in cost performance are performed.
• Identify countries' assets and production unit teams with best practices and quickly transfer these to others.
• Establish and embed an Above-Asset-Cost benchmarking and performance monitoring process that conducts external benchmarks as required, helps leadership set and embed targets, and conducts regular performance assessments.

Requirements:
Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. An MBA or master’s in organisational Change is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with a strong focus on business transformation, process improvement, and benchmarking.
• Proven experience leading large-scale transformation projects and benchmarking studies in the upstream sector.
• Strong knowledge of change management principles and methodologies, with experience embedding new practices within large organisations.
• Demonstrated experience in using data analytics for decision-making and benchmarking.
• Familiarity with industry standards such as Lean, Six Sigma, or Agile methodologies.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Competencies Required

• Strategic thinking and ability to align transformation initiatives with business goals.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Change management expertise and ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and manage large, complex projects.
• Financial acumen with experience in driving cost optimization initiatives.
• Leadership and team-building skills with a focus on driving cultural change.
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Ethics and integrity
• Cultural Awareness and Critical thinking
• Conflict Resolution

The Candidate MUST reside in LAGOS.