Global SC Digital SME Lead

Grade H - Office/ CoreResponsible for supporting supply chain operations through the HSSE-assured, cost-optimized and competitive selection of supply sources to cover requirements, liaising with internal coordinators and third party supply partners to optimize the supply schedule and assist efforts to ensure sufficient supply of goods and products. Customers & Products Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Description:
As bp transitions to an integrated energy company, we must adapt to a changing world and maintain driven performance. Bps 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 . 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!
Job Title: Global SC Digital SME Lead
About the role: GSC Product Manager leads the development and deployment of digital strategy for the global supply chain, leads with IT&S and hub supply chains 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 build tangible and trackable value for the business.
The role requires a methodical approach to evaluating outcomes, ensuring alignment with bp s financial, operational, and customer strategies. As a hands-on contributor, the Product Manager handles 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! Key Responsibilities:

• 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 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 crafted 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 / lead agile teams as required
  

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

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

Experience Required:

• Graduate in Business, Economics, STEM or equivalent/relevant digital accreditation
• 10+ years of proven experience in product management, with a consistent track record of delivering successful products
• Prior leadership roles with a high level of responsibility

Business focused:

• 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, and analytics 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 contribute

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

Entrepreneurial leadership:

• Partner with team members on new working practices to drive partnership 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 bring products to market

Negligible travel should be expected with this role This role is eligible for relocation within country This position is not available for remote working 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