Job Description

Job summary

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

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As bp transitions to an integrated energy company, we must adapt to a changing world and maintain driven performance. Bp's customers & products (C&P) business area is setting up a business and technology centre (BTC) in Pune, India. This will support the delivery of an enhanced customer experience and drive innovation by building global capabilities at scale, maximising technology, and developing deep expertise

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The BTC will be a core and connected part of our business, bringing together colleagues who report into their respective part of C&P, working together with other functions across bp. This is an exciting time to join bp and the customers & products BTC!

BP Behaviors for Successful Delivery:

Respect: Build trust through clear relationships

Excellence : Apply standard processes and strive for executional completion

One Team: Collaborate to improve team efficiency

Job

Title

GSC Digital Product Senior SME - Product Owner

Shift Timing:

9am to 6pm

About the role:

GSC Product Manager leads the development and deployment of digital strategy for the global supply chain, leads with IT&S and supply chains hubs for the development and deployment of digital applications and technologies. This role defines and delivers simplification, loss reduction, process / organizational efficiency via deployment of digital tools across GSC hubs and global teams, leads the optimization and utilization of existing tools and technologies. Collaboration is key, working closely with engineers, designers, and business partners to deliver impactful solutions that create tangible and trackable value for the business. The role requires a methodical approach to evaluate outcomes, ensuring alignment with bp's financial, operational, and customer strategies. As a hands-on contributor, the Product Manager manages day-to-day accountability and performance management to achieve product success, has a commercial approach that can ensure investment aligns with operational and financial goals!!!

Experience & Education:

Experience:

Lead the development and stakeholder buy in to the vision and strategy to use digital technologies across the supply chain

Act as the inspiring leader and champion of digital innovation within the supply chain staying abreast of industry developments, to develop the next generation of tools and technologies

Lead recruitment, integration and ongoing relationship with IT&S of agencies and partners to service supply chain digital needs

Act as the 'go to' digital expert for hub supply chains and build capabilities to ensure digital is established as a fundamental part of the way we operate in the supply chain

Work with global and hub supply chain teams to identify demand for digital innovation and provide the capability and support for rapid development and deployment of pilots / minimum viable products (MVP)

Act as the SPA to ensure that digital solutions are designed and built for rapid scale-up

Determine annual budget of revex / capex to enable improvements

Manage portfolio process of opportunities and facility prioritization with GSCLT and IT&S.

Support and lead agile teams as the need arises

Education:

Graduate in Business, Economics, STEM or equivalent/ relevant digital accreditation

Prior leadership roles with a high level of responsibility

10+ years of experience in product management, with a consistent track record of delivering successful products

Summary of decision rights:

Recommend and Agree for development and deployment of digital technologies in the GSC

Decide for digital designs and tools suitable for global scale up

Recommend and agree rights for funding of digital tools and technologies in the GSC budget

Business focused:

Track record and experience in development and deployment of digital tools to drive commercial benefit in logistics, manufacturing and supply chain environments.

Knowledge and experience of supply chain operations

Analytical and commercially focused, using data-driven insights, metrics to evaluate product performance and link outcomes to strategy

Understand business and technical economic value, such as TCO, unit economics, NPV, ROIC, and other commercial measures

Translate vision into strategic product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while handling cyber, operational, and/or regulatory risks

Plans and control costs associated with running a product, including collecting, analyzing, and reporting cost/benefit information to more efficiently provide value

Human centered:

Know and empathize with internal and/or external customer(s) needs to reinvent and innovate product solutions

Integrate customer and partner feedback loops to ensure that product solutions and outcomes meet organizational needs

Ability to mentor team members and drive cross-discipline problem solving to achieve business outcomes

Technology driven:

Use lean, iterative experiments and low fidelity prototyping to find signal, validate hypothesis, and iterate before moving to scale

Collaborate with partners to define end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions

Engage with partners on data management, laying out how data is processed, stored, accessed, and protected

Assess opportunities for reusing enterprise solutions and build new platforms with enterprise scalability in mind

Curiosity about emerging tools and technologies

Transformational leadership:

Partner with team members on new working practices to drive teamwork and efficiency

Balance customer insights, business goals, and industry opportunity spaces

Influence and build alignment across a broad set of senior executives and partners to secure resources and overcome impediments to bringing products to market

You will work with:

You will be part of a Digital Enablement Team, working alongside seasoned experts in Process, Data, Advanced Analytics, Data Science and regional product team. You'll support 700 GSC team community, engage with collaborators across Castrol Leadership, FBT, and Technology, contributing to value-driven insights and transformation.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on

race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or

disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the

job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of

employment.

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost Management, Creativity and Innovation, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Inventory Management, Negotiation planning and preparation, Resilience, Risk Management, Sourcing strategy, Supplier Performance Management, Supply Chain Development, Supply chain management, Sustainability awareness and action

Legal Disclaimer:

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