Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
 

About the role

The Performance Unit (PU) Digital Separation Lead will play a critical role in supporting the Castrol Separation Programme, ensuring successful Day 1 readiness and delivery of TSA (Transitional Service Agreement) Exit activities across the Performance Unit.
 

Acting as the main liaison between the PU and central Digital governance teams, the role will ensure that central programme activities and local market requirements are effectively aligned, integrated, and delivered. The successful candidate will drive business readiness, minimise operational disruption, and ensure that customer, regulatory, and business requirements are fully represented throughout the separation journey.
 

Key Accountabilities:

Day 1 Readiness

• Serve as the main interface between the PU and the Digital Separation Management Office (SMO) and Transition Management Office (TMO).
• Coordinate and supervise Day 1 readiness activities across all markets within the PU.
• Ensure local business requirements, operational processes, regulatory obligations, and customer considerations are incorporated into separation planning and execution.
• Monitor readiness progress and resolve issues that may impact Day 1 operations.
   

TSA Exit Planning and Execution

• Act as the PU Digital lead for TSA Exit activities.
• Coordinate PU participation in TSA Exit planning, readiness assessments, and execution activities.
• Ensure local risks, dependencies, operational constraints, and business requirements are reflected in TSA Exit plans.
• Support the transition of services, applications, infrastructure, processes, and support models to future-state solutions.
• Identify and bring up risks that could impact TSA Exit achievements, business continuity, or customer operations.
   

Governance and Partner Management

• Act as the key liaison between the PU and central programme governance teams, including the SMO, TMO, PMO, and TSA Exit Programme.
• Drive alignment between programme workstreams and PU priorities.
• Coordinate decision-making, issue resolution, and action tracking across partners.
• Represent PU interests in governance forums and provide visibility of readiness, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.
   

Business Readiness and Organisational Change

• Coordinate Digital readiness activities across all PU markets.
• Ensure business partners understand programme impacts, timelines, and required actions.
• Drive engagement with PU leadership, country managers, and functional teams.
• Support the delivery of organisational change, communication, training, and adoption activities.
• Identify organisational and operational risks and implement appropriate mitigation plans.
   

Customer and Operational Continuity

• Ensure customer-facing and business-critical operations are fully considered throughout planning and execution.
• Assess potential impacts on customers, distributors, supply chains, and commercial operations.
• Develop and coordinate mitigation plans to minimise disruption.
• Advocate practical solutions that balance programme objectives with business needs.

Testing and Data Readiness

• Coordinate PU participation in testing and validation activities.
• Ensure User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is completed for impacted applications and services.
• Facilitate resolution of market-specific issues, defects, and process gaps.
• Support operational readiness assessments and business sign-off activities.
• Coordinate local data validation, cleansing, migration readiness, and process transition activities.
   

Risk and Dependency Management

• Identify, track, and handle PU-specific risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively address risks impacting Day 1 readiness, TSA Exit, customer operations, or business continuity.
• Raise critical issues through programme governance channels.
• Support mitigation and recovery planning where required.
   

Education (Desirable)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in, Information Technology, Business Management, Project Management, Organizational Change or Related field
• Professional certifications such as: PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP (Project Management Professional), MSP (Leading Successful Programmes)
   

Experience

• Consistent track record in leading and delivering complex business, digital, or transformation programmes.
• Excellent partner management and influencing skills across multiple levels of the organisation.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams in a global or multi-market environment.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management, business readiness, and operational change.
• Proven ability to handle dependencies, resolve issues, and drive delivery in a fast-paced programme environment.
• Strong understanding of Castrol business operations and market structures.
• Proven ability to coordinate large-scale transformation, separation, integration, or business change initiatives.
• Experience working across multiple countries, functions, and cultures.
• Strong partner management experience across business and digital organisations.
• Experience operating in complex, fast-paced programmes with significant business impact.
   

Skills and Competencies

• Strong influencer with a delivery and commercial approach
• Ability to understand complex business, operational, and digital challenges.
• Balances programme objectives with business priorities and customer needs.
• Builds trusted relationships across senior business and digital partners/leadership.
• Influences without formal authority.
• Translates complex programme issues into clear business impacts and actions
• Delivers concise executive-level updates and recommendations.
• Drives alignment across multiple teams and geographies (dependent on PU)
• Creates momentum and accountability in ambitious environments.
• Identifies risks and dependencies early.
• Maintains focus on customer and operational continuity throughout transition activities.
• Ensures business-critical processes remain protected during change.
• Works effectively across central programme teams, country organisations, and external partners.
• Facilitates decision-making across going for priorities.
• Operates effectively in ambiguous and constantly evolving environments.
• Maintains focus on delivery under pressure and tight timescales.
   

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.
 

There 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!
 

We 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.
 

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement:

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Building a Community of Practice, Business Acumen, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict Management, Creating a high performing team, Creating and measuring impact, Creative Direction, Creativity and Innovation, Customer centric thinking, Customer Journey Mapping, Customer Value Proposition, Delivers an effortless customer experience, Design Direction - Delivery, Design Direction - Design, Design Direction - Experience, Design Direction - Strategic, Designing with AI, Design Thinking, Digital Ecosystems, Digital Fluency, Facilitation {+ 25 more}

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