Marketing Global Category Manager

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description: This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

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.

It's an exciting time to join bp. Meeting the energy challenge requires many different approaches and solutions.

We’re gearing up for the future. At bp our goal for C&P (Customer & Products) is to deliver the future of mobility, energy and services for our customers by innovating with new business models and service platforms. C&P will become a hub, housing our midstream, lubricants, aviation, sale of chemicals, mobility and convenience, marketing and our next-generation businesses, making it a highly integrated and interconnected organisation. And with safety being our core value, our commitment to safe and reliable operations will never change.

Want to join the team? This means:

• being customer-centric, agile and responsive to changing customer needs and dynamic markets

• focusing on growth and development of customer offers

• optimising the chemicals and fuels value chains to maximise integrated value

• contributing to the reduction of carbon intensity of the products we create, and sell, by 50% by 2050 or

• sooner

• creating strategic partnerships that drive long-term value for C&P

• being digitally enabled and empowered by customer insights and data to deliver solutions.

Join our Castrol Procurement Team and advance your career as a Marketing Global Category Manager!

The Marketing Category Manager provides strategic category leadership for key categories at Castrol and is accountable for end-to-end management of global categories.

They are responsible for fostering end to end category operational excellence through leading teams who manage supply chain risk and improve value, including sustainability, within their category. They do this through extensive collaboration across and beyond procurement, including with regional and business resources. This ensures their category operates end to end with high efficiency.

The category manager will define sourcing approaches build vs buy insource vs outsource, single vs multi-vendor, regional vs global and tower model designs with clear commercial models for the strategy which include rate cards, blended rates, skill pyramids, outcome-based, fixed price etc.

Provide strategic steer in major negotiations with global and regional suppliers and responsible for category strategy adoption and utilization of framework agreements.

Act as the senior commercial partner to global and regional Marketing leadership team.

In this role You will:

Category Strategy leadership:

• Leading the category team developing and delivering transformational procurement strategies, aligned with business needs, which ensures their category operates highly effectively end to end.

• Possesses commercial savvy and awareness of external market dynamics, providing strategic guidance and challenging the team to formulate innovative strategies.

• Leverages methodologies, such as systems thinking, to extract incremental value

• Ensures their strategy is aligned to business and regional needs

Category excellence:

• Demonstrates data led ownership of the end-to-end performance of the category, working with stakeholders to develop category management plans that allow efficient end to end category management reflecting business / region specific context such as laws, tax, market conditions and local content​.

• Cultivates purposeful partnerships and robust supplier relationships to navigate business challenges and unlock triple bottom line (people, profit & planet) value

Transformational Leadership and Change Management:

• Leads major change initiatives, which deliver incremental value to business through ensuring supplier performance in a dynamic environment.

• Oversees orchestration of change across a diverse partner landscape

• Leverages digital tools to drive innovation and value creation

• Uses storytelling and strong communication to encourage adoption

Team leadership:

• Builds high performing teams by fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement. Their team has strong technical skills and leads the category across procurement and the broader organization.

• Builds category knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure strategy execution

• Develops the team’s technical capabilities in order to deliver category operational excellence

• Nurtures accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and strong collaboration with both suppliers and interested parties.

• Establishes an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation

Supplier & Stakeholder Management:

• Skilled at leading and influencing through complexity and ambiguity, managing virtual relationships with stakeholders in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments​

• Builds deep partner relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to collaborators

What You will need to be successful:

• Degree educated - something related to Business, Marketing, Procurement preferred - or equivalent relevant professional experience

• Post graduate qualification related to procurement desirable

• An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through to execution in the businesses / assets

• Proven experience in Marketing category procurement.

• Critical thinking with excellent commercial competence

• An understanding of working in and navigating complex multi-national businesses

• Lead the category and lead their team in managing the category

• Leading end to end execution of the category strategy across the organization

• They are role models shaping work delivery, decision making and partnering with stakeholders

• The ability to evaluate innovative solutions and manage risk

• Judgement in order to translate business requirements into a strategic category plan, leading the team to identify and use relevant data sources, utiliapplynced data tools and platforms to access and analyze complex data sets

• Critical thinking to make informed strategic decisions

• Senior stakeholder networking and influencing skills to ensure agreement and adoption

• Regular interaction with external suppliers and representing Castrol externally are expected

• Effective change management is key to success, requiring exceptional influencing, engagement and storytelling abilities

• Persevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change, key to leading transformational change

At bp, we provide the following environment & benefits to you:

• Different bonus opportunities based on performance, wide range of cafeteria elements

• Life & health insurance, medical care package

• Hybrid working arrangement aligned with team arrangements and business needs

• Opportunity to build up long term career path and develop your skills with wide range of learning options

• Celebrate in bp’s success. You may be eligible to join bp’s Global ShareMatch plan. This non-contractual benefit lets employees buy bp shares and receive matching shares, in line with plan rules

• Family friendly workplace e.g.: Extended parental leave, Mother-baby room

• Employees’ wellbeing programs e.g.: Employee Assistance Program, Company Recognition Program

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Chill-out and collaboration spaces in our beautiful Budapest Agora and Szeged offices e.g.: Play Zones, Office massage, Sport and music equipment

bp Hungary won the Most Attractive Employer 2024 Award (SSC / BSC sector) fourth time in a row at PwC's annual employer research. Come and join us!

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life.

Disclaimer: Please note that, according to Hungarian law (2012/I. 113. §), mothers or single parents caring for a child under three years of age cannot be employed in night shift positions.

Travel Requirement: Up to 10% 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 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

Legal Disclaimer:

We 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.

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