Digital Strategy & Optimization Principal

Epsom, Surrey
BP
Job Profile Summary Responsible for leading the delivery of a segment or team investment portfolio / programme / complex high-risk project (depending on specialism) in alignment with strategy, taking full accountability for its success and using highly advanced technical capabilities to manage financial plans and realize expected benefits outlined in the business case, securing engagement and involvement of stakeholders and leading continuous improvement efforts. Specialisms: Portfolio Management; Programme Management; Project and Product Delivery.
Job Advert The Digital Strategy and Optimization Lead, plays an important role in evolving, embedding, and enabling the digital strategy across our digital teams. Setting governance structures to enable prioritization and integration of the strategy,as well as ensuring alignment of financial frame for pan Innovation & Engineering (I&E) digital to strategy.

Key Accountabilities:

• Translating the digital strategy into the creation and management of strategic plans, that in turn shape and support the delivery of projects, ensuring activities and outputs remain relevant and measurable.
• Setting governance structures to enable prioritization and integration of the strategy, as well as ensuring alignment of financial frame for pan-I&E digital to strategy.
• Reflect requirements of a broad range of stakeholders by collaborating with cross-business and functional teams.
• Support in the communication and promotion of the digital strategy across our digital teams and beyond.
• Assess the current technology environment and support with the refresh of digital and shared service strategies and develops maintains roadmaps in collaboration with architecture.
• Perform market research from internal and external sources to inform key stakeholders and as input to refreshing digital strategies Help to build a more cohesive community for the strategy specialism within Digital to ensure bp gets the most out of the available skills and experience and drives continuous improvement efforts.
• Drive the appropriate behaviours to achieve success,including a continuous improvement culture, such as collaborating with key partners to develop and refine our approaches.Ensure personal and team compliance with bp’s Code of Conduct and demonstrates strong leadership through bp’s leadership expectations and values & behaviours.

Essential Experience:

• Extensive experience of developing and managing digital/technology strategies Broad and strategic knowledge of the global technology landscape and players Commercial mindset, be innovative, and demonstrate strong design thinking acumen skills.
• Strong facilitation and leadership skills: bringing multiple stakeholders from broad backgrounds and positions together towards defined outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate at various levels within and outside bp, work independently and remotely and be comfortable with ambiguity.
• Outstanding communication, brevity and relationship skills,ability to engage with a broad range of stakeholders, capable of leading by influence.
• Strong skills in promoting and marketing content.
• Strong negotiation skills, prioritization, and the ability to navigate competing demands and complex problems.
• Proven ability to think creatively and strategically while handling complex issues.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in relevant subject or equivalent preferred or equivalent experience.

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

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

Post End Date: Sunday 21st November 2021

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Entity Innovation & Engineering
Job Family Group IT&S Group
Relocation available No
Travel required Negotiable
Time Type Full time
Country United Kingdom
About BP INNOVATION & ENGINEERING

Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.

Working with us, you can do this by:

• deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions
• driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
• collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
• originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them
• protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks

Because together we are:

• Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
• Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎
• Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive