Competitiveness & Transformation Execution Lead

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Description: Castrol is a global leader in lubricants and part of the bp Group, one of the world’s largest energy companies. In India, Castrol is a publicly listed company, leading in the Automotive, Industrial, and Marine lubricant sectors. With iconic brands, steadfast innovation, strong customer relationships, and a team of highly motivated employees, we have maintained our market leadership in India for over a century. Our robust manufacturing and distribution network in India helps us reach consumers through more than 135,000 outlets.

At Castrol, success knows no bounds. We offer a fast-paced learning environment where you can develop your career, whether in specialized functions or on a general management track. Castrol India has a proud legacy of championing top talent for leadership roles, both locally and globally.

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.

Shift timing: 7AM to 4 PM (IST)

We are looking for someone to join our Competitiveness & Transformation (C&T) team in Supply Chain to drive the execution of projects and initiatives within our Business Transformation Centre in Pune, India . These projects typically involve transformational changes across our value chain, including to our product & raw material portfolio, supply chain network and manufacturing sites.

What you will deliver (responsibilities) Lead or support projects focused on driving competitiveness & transformation for one of Castrol’s Performance Units (PUs) with strong project management skills.

Extract and consolidate data from supply chain systems (e.g., JDE, KINAXIS, SQL, MS Access or any database management tool), Data extraction skills (SQL, MS Access, Excel or any other equivalent software). Combining datasets to meet required modelling scenarios (SQL queries, lookups, etc)

Perform comprehensive supply chain cost modelling across multiple variables—including raw materials, packaging, finished goods, transfer pricing, manufacturing costs, warehousing, logistics, freight, sales, and forecasting — to enable data driven decision making and network optimization and able to correlate data to supply chain and financial/costing modelling scenarios.

Support the execution of the C&T agenda, including PCC (Product Cost Competitiveness), OCC (Operational Cost Competitiveness), Industrialization and Transformation.

Experience of driving the various supply chain initiatives including digital, improve the competitiveness and efficiency of Castrol supply chain by ensuring projects are implemented at PU level effectively and with maximum pace to capture value

Collaborate with C&T colleagues within PU and global to ensure effective handover and continuity as projects progress through their lifecycle

Knowledge of commercials and interpretation of supply chain cost & basics of accounting

Support the C&T ideation process to build a continual pipeline of opportunities for Competitiveness & Transformation

Adopt project management guideline to manage timelines/breakthroughs, risks, interdependencies, resources, budgets and value delivery

Work closely with collaborators in Supply Chain, manufacturing, procurement, marketing, technology and performance units to ensure cross functional alignment and improve potential for project success

Support effective tracking of value delivery and status reporting for Team, Project Governance and Leadership.

What you will need to be successful (experience, job   requirements & qualifications)

Bachelor's degree

9+ year experience, ideally within Lubricants, chemicals or FMCG industries, with a solid track record of delivery

Solid project management experience, ideally with formal qualification (e.g. PMP, Prince)

Data download from various sources (e.g. JDE, Kinaxis, etc.) to perform supply chain cost modelling scenarios

Data analysis & cost modelling experience, coupled with the ability to use analytics tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI) to identify insights, solve problems & make decisions

Proven experience developing relationships & managing collaborators across different teams and org levels

Ability to manage a diverse set of activities and prioritize effectively to achieve optimum results for the organization

Able to collaborate effectively with others across different teams, cultures and geographies 

You will work with Work with colleagues within the PU-based C&T teams to jointly deliver the C&T agenda

PPD global

Share, support and learn from other C&T team members within the BTC Pune team

Why join our team? We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting 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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.  

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, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost Management, Cost Optimization, 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 Improvements, Supply chain management, Supply Chain Modeling, Supply Chain Operations, Supply Chain Transformation, Sustainability awareness and action .

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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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