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Reporting into the AU Pricing & Promotions Lead, this role supports the AU Macro Space Planning Lead and acts as a link between Category, Space Planning, Pricebook, Marketing, Loyalty, Technology, Trading Services, Retail Operations and external supply partners, helping to translate commercial plans from conception to execution.\nThe role works with internal and external stakeholders to support the day-to-day management and future planning of promotional campaigns, projects and other critical functions that underpin bp’s growth objectives and its ambition to become a world-class retailer in the Petrol and Convenience (P&C) industry. The successful candidate will demonstrate commercial awareness and strong analytical skills to provide stakeholders with accurate and timely insights that support decision making.\nKey Responsibilities\nCategory performance & insights\nSupport Category Managers with performance insights across Retail Merchandising and Food Services segments to identify and understand sales impacts and opportunities for optimization.\nAnalyze SKU, category, location and promotional-period performance to understand sales impacts and identify opportunities.\nAssist with evaluating loyalty/member-offer performance, including promotional SKU performance versus total shop sales and overlapping promotional mechanics.\nReporting & analytics\nSupport the Pricing & Promotions Lead with the development and maintenance of Power BI and Excel reporting that translates sales and promotional data into actionable commercial insights.\nHelp build repeatable reporting processes and methodologies that allow Category and Operations teams to monitor business performance.\nPromotional execution & accuracy\nConduct pre-go-live checks with support teams to confirm promotional pricing, product eligibility and system configuration before offers reach stores.\nMonitor promotional changeovers across POS and electronic shelf-label environments and coordinate investigation and corrective action when exceptions occur.\nWork with Pricebook to resolve incorrect product categorization, missing SKUs and promotional configuration issues.\nPOS & digital execution\nParticipate in bi-weekly Point of Sale (POS) execution meetings with the Promotions (Pune) and Accenture (Mumbai) teams to ensure AU Category and Marketing Team requirements are executed accurately and in line with trading calendar timelines.\nSupport the delivery of Digital Point of Sale requirements across the AU market to leverage customer awareness of key activations and drive commercial engagement.\nSpace planning support\nWork closely with the AU Space Planning Team and Retail Operations to assist in prioritizing Macro Space Planning requirements across the AU COCO network to improve commercial growth opportunities in market.\nKey Stakeholders\nInternal: AU Pricing & Promotions Lead, AU Macro Space Planning Lead, Category Managers, Space Planning, Pricebook, Marketing, Loyalty, Technology, Trading Services and Retail Operations.\nExternal: Promotions (Pune) and Accenture (Mumbai) teams and external supply partners.\nSkills & Experience\nStrong commercial awareness and analytical skills, with the ability to turn sales and promotional data into clear, accurate and timely insights.\nWorking knowledge of Excel and Power BI (or a strong willingness to learn) for reporting and analysis.\nStrong attention to detail, particularly when checking pricing, product eligibility and system configuration.\nEffective communication and relationship skills to work with internal teams, offshore partners and suppliers.\nGood organization and time management, with the ability to work to trading calendar timelines.\nInterest in retail, convenience or Petrol and Convenience (P&C) category management.\nAt bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:\nA company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued\nPossibility to join our social communities and networks\nLearning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path\nLife and health insurance, medical care package\nAnd many other benefits!\nWe 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.\nDon’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!\nTravel Requirement:\nNo travel is expected with this roleRelocation Assistance:\nThis role is not eligible for relocationRemote Type:\nThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingSkills:\nAgility core practices, Agility tools, Business Requirements Analysis, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Digital Fluency, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Product and market intelligence, Supplier Relationship Management.\n\n Legal Disclaimer:\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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