Vista Implementation Lead

Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

APPLICATION EXPIRY:

Please note: applications close at 11:59 p.m. on the day before the listed closing date. For example, if the role closes on 2nd of the month, the posting will be removed at 11:59 p.m. on 1st of the month.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The business-led innovation team (Vista) within bp Supply Trading & Shipping (ST&S) business is set up with the mission to help future-proof the organization. We set out to answer three questions:

• How can technologies today solve yesterday’s problems faced by ST&S?
• How can technologies of tomorrow give us a commercial competitive edge today?
• What do we need to do/think/behave differently in a rapidly evolving business landscape?

Vista is a global, agile, impact-driven, and solution-agnostic team focused on identifying and leveraging innovative technologies, business models, and ecosystem partnerships to address commercial opportunities.

Vista is seeking a commercially minded innovation leader to shape the next iteration of its global Implementation pillar. The role begins once an opportunity has been qualified and selected through Vista’s Growth & Engagement-led intake and prioritisation process. From that point, the Implementation Lead is accountable for validating the underlying business problem, looking for opportunities to redesign the underlying business process (if relevant), establishing the right experiment and implementation approach, and converting evidence into sustained business change. This role combines responsibility of digital delivery or product management of early-stage experimentations, as well as bringing strong ST&S commercial judgement to implementation, and ensure selected initiatives solve the right process problem and deliver measurable outcomes.

Pillar interfaces and collaboration approach: Growth & Engagement owns awareness, relationships, opportunity origination, initial commercial framing, intake, hopper management and portfolio-level impact storytelling. Implementation owns selected initiatives from structured discovery through solution mapping (agnostic to build vs buy), experimentation, implementation, adoption and transition to a long-term owner. Entry into Implementation and decisions to scale or stop are jointly recommended through Vista governance, using evidence supplied by both pillars. This role contributes subject-matter challenge to upstream prioritisation efforts but does not own the inbound pipeline.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Selected-opportunity validation and business process redesign

• Take accountability for identified opportunities’ solutioning, including working with the Ecosystem pillar for weighing both build and buy solutions and the art of the possible.
• Ensuring consistent implementation best practices (eg commercial value cases in place, success criteria well defined, short & longer term solution visions considered, etc) are adopted before committing material experimentation or implementation resources.
• Lead end-to-end process discovery and redesign, addressing root causes, decision rights, controls, data, roles and ways of working before introducing technology. Note: not all opportunities require a process resign.
• Convert the validated opportunity into clear hypotheses, a target process or operating concept, measurable success criteria and a pragmatic implementation pathway.
• Return materially reframed opportunities to the agreed Vista governance forum where renewed prioritisation or sponsor commitment is required, rather than independently expanding the pipeline or scope.

Front-office-led experimentation and innovation enablement

• Provide reusable implementation methods, patterns and lessons to ST&S’s growing citizen developer community for wider capability-building and communications

Implementation strategy, adoption and scale

• Own the implementation plan for selected initiatives, integrating process, people, data, controls and technology with explicit business sponsorship, ownership and value measures.
• Mobilise the delivery coalition across trading, operations, functions and Technology needed to move from structured discovery to tested change and sustained adoption.
• Lead negotiation & alignment efforts with multiple functional partners (eg. various parts of Technology, Legal, Procurement, E&C, etc) for ensuring, fit-for-purpose (and sometimes bespoke) processes and ways of working are firmly agreed for innovation projects in ST&S
• Own initiative-level execution governance, including scope, dependencies, risks, controls, change impacts, resource needs and readiness decisions.
• Shape and execute the route to scale for validated initiatives, including integration with existing ST&S capabilities and transition to the appropriate long-term business or Technology owner.
• Confirm adoption and value-realisation evidence with the business owner, supplying verified outcomes and case-study inputs to Growth & Engagement, which owns portfolio-wide impact reporting and storytelling.

Portfolio, governance and financial stewardship

• Manage capacity, prioritisation and delivery health across initiatives accepted into the Implementation portfolio
• Establish proportionate initiative-level governance that enables rapid learning while overseeing execution risk, controls, dependencies, expenditure and business readiness.
• Maintain reliable evidence on process performance, adoption, realised value and implementation learning for each active initiative, feeding Growth & Engagement’s consolidated portfolio metrics.
• Recommend continue, reshape, scale or stop decisions through Vista governance. Portfolio entry, relative commercial prioritisation and enterprise narrative remain shared governance decisions rather than unilateral Implementation accountabilities.

Senior leadership within Vista

• Set the strategy, standards and operating model for Vista’s Implementation pillar, including clear acceptance criteria, hand-offs and decision rights with Growth & Engagement and Ecosystem & Partnering.
• Act as the senior commercial and process-change adviser (if needed) once a relevant opportunity enters structured validation, while upskilling the rest of the Vista team on the holistic problem-solving mindset and commercial acumen.
• Lead and develop a globally dispersed implementation team with capabilities in commercial problem diagnosis, process redesign, experimentation governance, adoption and transition to scale.
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ESSENTIAL EDUCATION:

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in business, economics, finance, engineering, a quantitative discipline or a related field.
• Relevant commercial, trading, process improvement, change leadership or innovation experience is valued. Formal digital product, project or technical qualifications are not essential.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Significant commercial experience in energy, commodities, trading or a closely related environment, with a strong understanding of how value is created and protected.
• Strong knowledge of ST&S processes, stakeholder landscape and opportunity areas across front, middle and back-office activities.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex business problems, redesign end-to-end processes and translate strategy into practical implementation.
• Strong commercial judgement, including opportunity sizing, benefit articulation, prioritisation and evidence-based investment decisions.
• Experience leading operating model, process transformation or business change across organisational boundaries.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and mobilising cross-functional teams without relying on formal authority.
• Sufficient digital and data fluency to engage credibly with citizen developers, Technology teams and external partners, and to recognise when an experiment requires enterprise-grade support.
• Strategic, curious and pragmatic leadership style, with the ability to create clarity and momentum through ambiguity.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• Direct experience in trading front/middle offices, such as commercial management, SIM, risk management or another ST&S business areas that require change management and project management skills, especially for digital initiatives.
• Practical exposure to AI-enabled development, low-code tools or citizen-development models, without needing to be a software engineer.
• Experience working with startups, strategic partners or innovation ecosystems to accelerate learning or access differentiated capabilities.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• The global nature of the team requires the candidate to be flexible with managing different time zones

WHY JOIN US?
We’re committed to supporting leaders who want to make an impact. You’ll have the chance to shape and influence outcomes across businesses. You’ll be part of an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and where your contribution to performance and integration matters.

We invest in the growth and wellbeing of our people, providing the resources, networks, and development opportunities needed to thrive. Our total rewards package includes competitive pay, bonuses, share options, and a range of flexible benefits designed to meet your needs. We recognise that people have multifaceted lives, and we strive to offer a career experience that reflects that.

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:

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