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They ensure procurement activities, across the region / asset are aligned to both procurement strategic objectives and the region / asset strategic business priorities.\nThey have a deep understanding of and partner with the business to understand demand and challenge the business, where necessary, in order to deliver step changes in 3rd party spend by applying innovative solutions and change management. They have good commercial acumen to help in delivering secure optimal, compliant, and competitive, risk-managed procurement outcomes.\nThey liaise with relevant procurement/sourcing teams to deliver their regions / assets priorities, e.g. working with categories to understand and deliver category plans in their region / asset or working with S2C on sourcing for their region / asset. They balance business needs with category plans ensuring they are in synergy.\nThey partner, collaborate, develop and support management of relationships with suppliers to the regional / asset in collaboration with the global category teams, ensuring local needs are met. They also work with their peers across procurement to understand and share best practice and bring it to their region / asset, making procurement more efficient and effective.\nIndirect spend includes marketing, professional services, real estate, facilities management, engineering & maintenance, CAPEX projects, travel & events etc.\nKey Accountabilities\nRegion / asset delivery: Delivers procurement services in to their region / asset.\nProcurement delivery - Delivers procurement performance to the region / asset that meet or exceeds relevant metrics, including those for safety and compliance.\nDelivers regional needs whilst also aligning to category plans - Consolidates demand plans for the business, working with categories to ensure category plans are aligned. Understands the local commercial landscape and market factors, aiding in the development of value-driven strategies.\nUndertakes supplier performance management or interventions, escalating to the relevant business stakeholders or category teams, as needed, to ensure timely resolution and prevent leakage.\nAdvocates for opportunities to partner, collaborate, develop, and strengthen relationships with our contractors and suppliers\nUnlocks value in line with category management policy \nTeam intergration: Helps to create and embraces a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement in their team and the business. Develops their technical skills and represents the interests of their region / site / asset across procurement and the broader organization.\nCollaborates across procurement, with the business and, where appropriate, with suppliers to create a ‘one team’ mentality\nBuilds region / site / asset knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure delivery of their objectives\nDevelops their technical capabilities and accelerator skills\nEmbraces psychological safety, and bp values, as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation\nCompliant with Castrol policies and procedures.\nSupplier & Stakeholder Management: Uses storytelling to communicate impactfully with stakeholders and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities.\nInfluences through complexity and ambiguity, managing virtual relationships with stakeholders in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments \nBuilds good stakeholder relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to stakeholders\nBuilds relationships with the procurement teams globally, understanding stakeholder feedback and proactively working to build procurements reputation and ROI\nTransformation and Change Management: Delivers modernization & transformation activities, leading optimization of regional procurement delivery, and creating incremental value, aligned to the broader procurement and business transformation agendas.\nLeverages digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation\nPartners with internal discipline teams to drive category excellence\nUse influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption\nDelivers modernization & transformation activities, leading optimization of regional procurement delivery aligned to the broader procurement and business transformation agendas\nEssential Education:\nDegree educated - something related to Procurement preferred - or equivalent relevant professional experience\nPost graduate qualification related to procurement desirable\nEssential Experience and Job Requirements:\nFunctional knowledge: Must have an understanding of and be adept at developing and maintaining business context including an understanding of strategic direction, priorities, stakeholders, and strategy.\nKnowledge of category management principles\nAn understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through to execution in regions / assets \nAbility to develop a quick understanding of business objectives and synergise it with category strategies\nBusiness expertise: Good stakeholder management and influencing skills in order to develop a deep understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and their priorities, including long term objectives.\nStrategic thinking and commercial acumen\nAn understanding of working in and navigating complex multi-national businesses\nTrack record in collaborating with businesses / stakeholders to deliver continuous improvement\nLeadership: An SME, who shares knowledge with the wider team and drives delivery of business and procurement priorities. Collaborates across procurement, the businesses, suppliers and beyond to achieve their regions / assets goals.\nExperience in leading initiatives internationally, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing agile/flexible approaches\nAn advocate for our code, they incorporate the Operating Management System (OMS) and our safety leadership principles into strategies and everyday work\nProblem solving: The role requires the ability to partner with the business to develop innovative solutions, clearing blockers and enabling delivery. It also requires judgement to translate business requirements into a demand plan.\nEmbraces industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneers innovative solutions whilst managing risk\nBrings multiple parties (procurement, business, suppliers) together to collaboratively solve complex problems\nManages conflict to successful resolution while maintaining relationships with key stakeholders\nThe ability to evaluate innovative solutions and manage risk\nGood judgement in order to translate business requirements into a strategic delivery plan, aligned with the categories, to inform strategic decisions\nInterpersonal skills: The role demands strong people skills to engage with diverse stakeholders.\nStrong senior stakeholder networking and influencing skills to ensure buy in and adoption, building a reputation as a strategic partner to the regions / sites / assets\nExperience in regular interaction with external suppliers and representing Castrol externally\nEffective change management is key, requiring good influencing, engagement and storytelling abilities\nPersevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change, key to leading transformational change \nTravel Requirement:\nNegligible 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:\nAgility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business Requirements Analysis, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Cost modelling, Digital Fluency, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Product and market intelligence, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Value creation and management.\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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