Head of Strategic Projects

BP · Pune

Job Family Group:

Retail Group

Job Description:

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

Are you passionate about turning strategy into tangible results?

We are seeking a Head of Strategic Projects to lead bp's Mobility & Convenience Americas (M&CA) strategy and transformation portfolio, driving the execution of strategic, operational, and digital initiatives that accelerate growth, enhance customer experiences, and improve business performance.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who pairs the structured problem-solving difficulty of a premier strategy house with deep delivery instinct and operational leadership experience: owning transformation roadmaps, driving enterprise-wide business change, leading agile, product-based delivery at pace, and being accountable for measurable business outcomes. You will lead a team and set the delivery standard across strategic, operational, and digital transformation programs.

Core accountabilities (shared across the leadership team)

Strategy to execution: Translate enterprise and Customers-level strategy into clear, actionable roadmaps with landmarks, critical metrics, and success measures. Drive execution across strategic, operational, and digital priorities, ensuring delivery of measurable business outcomes.
Portfolio leadership & accountability: lead a portfolio of high-impact initiatives; handle interdependencies and risk, and be accountable for on-time delivery of outcomes and value.
Insight & decision leadership: Direct advanced analyses, financial modeling, value assessment, benchmarking, and operational performance reviews, and make the calls, turning complex data into decisions for senior leaders.
Executive narrative ownership: author and present compelling narratives for governance forums, performance reviews, and board-level updates; chair governance where you lead the agenda.
Team leadership & capability building: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team. Build organizational capability across transformation, strategy execution, operational improvement, and digital delivery.

What sets this role apart

Be responsible for the transformation delivery strategy: Define and lead the transformation delivery strategy for M&CA across strategy, operations, and digital initiatives, and prioritize the portfolio to enhance business value.
Enable products, platforms & business transformation: Partner with Technology, Product, Engineering, Customers, and Operations to deliver scalable digital products and platforms while driving broader business transformation and performance improvement initiatives.
Drive operational excellence: Partner with business leaders to improve operational performance, simplify processes, strengthen governance, and embed continuous improvement across the organization. Lead initiatives that enhance organizational effectiveness and sustainable business performance.
Set delivery excellence: Establish and continuously improve agile delivery frameworks, governance, tools, and metrics across squads and transformation programs. Ensure consistent execution standards across strategic, operational, and digital initiatives.
Own value realization: Ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable outcomes, revenue growth, cost efficiency, customer impact, and operational improvements, and track benefits realization.

What you will need to be successful

We are looking for an exceptional problem-solver with a strong delivery instinct, operational leadership capability, and the seniority to lead. For this role, we require deep experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives across strategy, operations, and digital delivery, with a consistent track record to translate strategy into execution and measurable business outcomes.

Experience (tiered)

Essential: 15+ years of post-university experience, including team leadership, with a strong foundation in best-in-class management consulting, McKinsey, BCG, or Bain. Significant experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional transformation portfolios spanning strategy, operations, and digital delivery.
Strongly preferred: Subsequent experience in oil & gas, ideally downstream (fuels, retail fuels, convenience, mobility).
Nice to have: Hands-on experience in retail and/or convenience. Experience working within agile product organizations and digital transformation environments.
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience or relevant professional qualification (MBA beneficial but not required).

Key skills

Structured thinking & judgment: frame sophisticated problems, test hypotheses, and make sound, data-driven decisions under ambiguity.
Advanced analytics: strong quantitative and qualitative skills — financial modeling, market assessment, scenario analysis, and clear synthesis.
Execution & delivery leadership: lead teams and complex plans, coordinate stakeholders, and deliver high-quality outcomes at pace.
Executive-ready communication: author and present compelling narratives to senior leadership, with strong written, verbal, and visual skills.
Cross-functional leadership: influence and align diverse teams and functions, integrating multiple perspectives into cohesive outcomes.
Commercial & external awareness: understand customer dynamics, market trends, competitive landscapes, and relevant policy – ideally in energy, mobility, retail, or other customer-facing industries.

Additional Information

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits:

A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements, and where fun and the demeanor of giving back to our environment are highly valued.
Possibility to join our social communities and networks.
Learning opportunities and development opportunities to craft your career path.
Life and health insurance and medical care package.
Many other benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting 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. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Travel Requirement:

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Creativity and Innovation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital Fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Integrated pricing, Leading transformation, market, Negotiation planning and preparation {+ 13 more}

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.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

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