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From the point of the divestment, you will be employed fully by Castrol and no longer be a bp employee.\nAbout the Role\nAs the Agency Relationships & Capability Manager within the Global Marketing organisation, you will play a pivotal role in driving consistency across Castrol's global agency model, media strategy execution, and marketing capability agenda.\nYou will lead key creative and media agency partnerships, ensuring global standards, procedures, and ways of working are effectively embedded across global, regional, and local marketing teams. By optimising agency relationships, governance, and operating models, you will help deliver high-quality, customer-centric content and media activities that support business growth and marketing effectiveness.\nIn addition, you will be responsible for defining and implementing a global Marketing Capability Framework, creating learning pathways and capability-building programmes that equip marketers with the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and tools required to excel in a rapidly evolving marketing landscape.\nThis is a critical marketing leadership role with a strong focus on relationship management, agency governance, capability development, and marketing transformation.\nReporting to the Head of Masterbrand, Adjacencies & Sponsorship, you will work closely with global, regional, and country marketing teams, as well as external agency and capability partners.\nWhat You Will Deliver / Be Accountable For\nAgency & Media Leadership\nAct as the central strategic lead for Castrol's global creative and media ecosystem, serving as the primary day-to-day contact between the WPP Centre of Excellence and Castrol marketing teams.\nDrive the agreed agency transformation agenda, improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of creative and media delivery while enabling integrated ways of working across strategy, creative, production, and activation.\nHandle and strengthen key agency relationships, ensuring alignment with business objectives and marketing priorities.\nBe an escalation point for market-related agency issues, providing guidance and resolution where required.\nIncrease visibility and consistency across local market media activities and facilitate the sharing of standards and findings globally.\nObserve offshore and global operating centre resources to ensure high-quality campaign activation, optimisation, reporting, and continuous improvement.\nServe as the media subject matter authority for global Brand & Communications activities, providing leadership and guidance on media investment strategies that drive measurable business outcomes.\nCollaborate closely with Marketing Effectiveness teams and market partners to demonstrate media performance and business impact.\nLead regular media audits in partnership with external consulting agencies, finding opportunities to optimise investment, governance, and performance.\nChampion brand safety and advertising compliance, working with agencies, consultants, and industry partners to proactively handle risk.\nStay ahead of emerging media trends, technologies, and innovations, finding opportunities for piloting and scaling new approaches across the organisation.\nMarketing Capability & Learning\nDefine and lead Castrol's global Marketing Capability Strategy, establishing a clear framework for marketing excellence.\nDevelop and implement a strategic capability engine that accelerates growth, modernises marketing practices, and establishes consistent global standards.\nDesign capability pathways and learning journeys that support marketers at different stages of their professional development.\nIdentify, select, and handle external learning and capability development partners and vendors.\nEnsure the development and delivery of engaging, relevant learning content that supports capability building across the global marketing community.\nEncourage continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and capability development across all marketing teams.\nDefine and govern the marketing technology stack required to support capability building and enable effective ways of working across marketing functions.\nWhat You Will Need To Be Successful\nBachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field. An additional business qualification or MBA or equivalent experience would be advantageous.\nSignificant experience within marketing, agency, consultancy, or client-side environments, ideally within a complex multinational matrix organisation.\nConsistent track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior partners across multiple markets and geographies.\nStrong expertise in agency management, media strategy, and marketing operations.\nDeep understanding of marketing technology ecosystems, including Digital Asset Management (DAM), workflow platforms, Dynamic Creative Optimisation (DCO), and related MarTech solutions.\nDemonstrated experience employing marketing effectiveness methodologies, including Marketing Mix Modelling and Media Mix Modelling.\nStrong commercial competence with the ability to translate performance data into compelling business recommendations.\nExcellent communication, influencing, partner engagement, and relationship management skills.\nExperience handling offshore agency models and marketing automation providers is highly desirable.\nEnthusiasm for innovation and a strong interest in the evolving media, technology, and digital marketing landscape.\nExperience working effectively across diverse cultures and international markets.\nSkills & Competencies\nContent Strategy & Creative Development\nMedia Planning, Investment & Effectiveness\nDigital Media & Innovation\nMarketing Capability Development\nLearning & Development Strategy\nMarketing Technology & MarTech Solutions\nStakeholder Management & Influencing\nVendor & Partner Management\nProject & Programme Management\nKnowledge Management & Documentation\nNegotiation & Conflict Resolution\nCritical Thinking & Problem Solving\nChange Management & Transformation\nWhy join us?\nAt bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.\nThere 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!\nWe 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 accommodation.\nTravel Requirement:\nUp to 25% travel should be expected with this roleRelocation Assistance:\nThis role is not eligible for relocationRemote Type:\nThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingSkills:\nAdvocacy, Brand Management, Business Acumen, Channel Management, Channel marketing activation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer Segmentation, Customer Value Proposition, Decision Making, Digital Innovation, Digital Marketing, Digital Product Management, Generating customer insights, Innovation Management, Listening, market, Marketing strategy, Marketing strategy and programmes, Offer and product knowledge, Offer Development, Performance and planning, Performance management, Sector, Translating strategy into plans.\n\n Legal Disclaimer:\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.\nIf you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. 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