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Network Planning Analyst

Job Description:

The Analyst is responsible for providing top-down portfolio analysis identifying potential investment risks and opportunities. This role will perform detailed analytical and statistical review of investment performance at the investment asset class, strategy composite and account portfolio levels.

They will lead the implementation of the Network Strategy and resulting multi-year plans in their Region (Inland or Coastal).

This role is responsible for ensuring that all matters relating to the sound administration of BP’s Retail property portfolio are timeously and effectively executed by the designated internal functions and/or contracted external service providers.

The role needs to also ensure focus on managing the portfolio of service station development land banks consisting of but not limited to, unimproved and improved freehold and/or leasehold land, including inter alia, churches, blocks of flats and houses.

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.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for all detailed analytical and evaluative review of specific investments, historical market data and portfolio performance.
• Provide top-down analysis of portfolio allocation.
• Develop, acquire, and maintain key risk and return metrics for distribution to senior management.
• Assist in the development and tracking of impactful, environmental, and social investing strategies.
• Benchmark portfolio investments to market indices
• Analyze and presents earned income by business segment for Senior Management discussions.
• Lead and finalise the Multi year investment plan in their region which informs the capex plan and ultimately the construction and projects execution plan to be delivered by Construction Teams.
• Identify areas to improve the profitability of the existing company controlled network through alternative income projects (rental of open land, sub leases for QSR or locally relevant tenants)

Land bank Administration

• Transfer municipal accounts from previous owners in to name of BP and arrange for municipal accounts (rates & taxes and consumption) to be addressed to BP
• Ensure timeous payments of municipal accounts
• Where applicable appoint agents to lead properties
• Take ownership for agreements between bp and agents
• Appoint tenants and maintain the relationship between them and bp
• Maintain lease agreements pertaining to land bank sites
• Ensure rentals are paid on time and lead rental deposits as per lease agreements

Administrative Support on Property retailer rentals, utilities, taxes and income streams

• Prepare a zero-based Revenue Budget for the year
• Ensure that all supplier invoices pertaining to the revenue budget are paid timeously.
• Control the Suspense account on a monthly basis and arrange for transfer amounts to either revenue or capital budgets as agreed with the responsible Line Manager. Also provide assurance to management that account has been reconciled.

Loans, Grants & Discounts

• Open general ledger accounts
• Ensure budget is allocated
• Validate the trade debtor accounts
• Reconcile loan account
• Initiate recovery of loans
• Payment of grants
• Ensure that amortization of grants is activated and correctly recorded in the system
• Ensure that discounts agreed as per an approved Finance Memorandum is activated and that Customer Care Centre is notified to update it on an annual basis.

Divestments

• Processing of Disposals of assets
  • Bank the proceeds cheque
  • Compile the VAT invoice
  • Compile the Disposal of Assets form
• Update the different supporting systems:
  • RIS
  • Periodic Payments
  • Loans and Fixed recoveries
• Communicate above to the Customer Care Centre

Prepaid Rental Deals

• Opening general ledger accounts for Pre-paid rentals (PPR’s).
• Ensure that PPR accounts are reconciled timeously
• Ensure that amortization of PPR’s is activated and correctly recorded in the system

General

• Assist the team with the approval of purchase orders in Fraxion system.
• Ensure principal lease rentals are captured correctly and that issues are implemented timeously

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Technology, Property

Experience

Experience in property analysis is an advantage

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! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

Travel RequirementNo travel is 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:Acquisitions and divestments, Acquisitions and divestments, Analysis and modelling, Asset and project finance, Commercial Acumen, Commercial performance management, Communication, Corporate Finance, Data visualization and interpretation, Deal modelling and valuation, Deal structuring, Decision Making, Economic evaluation methodology, Economic modelling, Financial Analysis, Financial Modelling, Financial Reporting, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Investment appraisal, Joint Venture Structuring, Management Reporting, Market Analysis, Performance management, Presenting {+ 2 more}

Indirect Channel Marketing Manager

Job Description:

Works with the Southern Africa Marketing Manager for the effective implementation of all marketing programmes for the business to underpin market strategy and Southern Africa Business Plan delivery. The role is responsible for developing and execution of marketing initiatives in relevant channels in the region and as such works closely with sales channel leads and channel partners.

Responsible in the market for ASP, Product launch, Project delivery and Activation of marketing activities in the channel

About bp

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads PCO (Passenger Car Oil) and MCO (Motorcycle Oil) product portfolio in line with South African requirements according to strategical ambitions, makes sure the portfolio meets local needs within global guardrails; identify gaps, launch new products, identify simplification opportunities and improvement areas.
• Develop and implement annual marketing plans to deliver volume, turnover and gross margin targets for the channel.
• Plan, lead Indirect Channel ASP budget, tracking of ROI with post evaluations covering results and learnings.
• Brief, lead agencies and resources needed to deliver marketing campaigns
• Coordinate, collect market insights within applicable competition law to deliver tactical marketing plans, winning customer development propositions and support strategy planning.
• Integrate best practises from other markets and identify collaboration growth opportunities within bp Castrol.
• Mentor Distributors on their marketing plans in alignment with Castrol growth strategy.
• Work closely with the Indirect Sales Team to plan and deliver marketing activation plans with full stakeholder alignment to drive in year performance and strategic goals.
• Connect as appropriate with the Global, Africa and META marketing teams to ensure appropriate product proposition for the channel.

Education

University degree or equivalent experience, . Experience in Sales and Marketing will be huge plus.

Experience

• Lubricants experience essential
• Substantial experience in Marketing
• Experience in B2B and B2C marketing activation essential
• Experience in disciplined marketing campaign execution
• Experience of working with agencies across multiple channels and countries
• Experience of working in a matrix organization
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

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! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

Travel RequirementNegligible 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, Customer centric thinking, Customer Segmentation, Customer value proposition, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Generating customer insights, Loyalty Management, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding

Direct Channel Marketing Manager

Job Description:

Works with the Southern Africa Marketing Manager for the effective process of all marketing programmes for the business to underpin market strategy and Southern Africa Business Plan delivery. The role is responsible for developing and execution of marketing initiatives in relevant channels in the region and as such works closely with sales channel leads and channel partners.

Responsible in the market for ASP, Product launch, Project delivery and Activation of marketing activities in the channel.

About bp

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.

Key Accountabilities

• Leads OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), Fleet, Franchise Workshop and Industrial product portfolio in line with South African requirements according to strategical ambitions, makes sure the portfolio meets local needs within global guardrails; identify gaps, launch new products, identify simplification opportunities and improvement areas.
• Develop and implement annual marketing plans to deliver volume, turnover and gross margin targets for the channel.
• Plan, lead Direct Channel ASP budget, tracking of ROI with post evaluations covering results and learnings.
• Brief, handle agencies and resources needed to deliver marketing campaigns
• Coordinate, collect market insights within applicable competition law to deliver tactical marketing plans, winning customer development propositions and support strategy planning.
• Own the pipeline fill in priority sectors and work closely with Direct Sales Team and Technical on pipeline conversion.
• Develop and deploy customer valuable offers that go beyond lubricants.
• Integrate best practises from other markets and identify collaboration growth opportunities within bp Castrol.
• Coach Distributors on their marketing plans in alignment with Castrol growth strategy.
• Work closely with the Direct Sales Team to plan and deliver marketing activation plans with full customer alignment to drive in year performance and strategic goals.
• Connect as appropriate with the Global, Africa and META marketing teams to ensure appropriate product proposition for the channel.

Education

University degree or equivalent experience, Experience in Sales and Marketing will be huge plus.

Experience

• Lubricants experience essential
• Substantial experience in Marketing
• Experience in B2B and B2C marketing activation essential
• Experience in disciplined marketing campaign execution
• Experience of working with agencies across multiple channels and countries
• Experience of working in a matrix organization
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Skills & Competencies

• Market Understanding: Skilful
• Loyalty Management: Skilful
• Category management and planning: Expert
• Performance Monitoring: Skilful
• Brand management: Skilful
• Project & relationship Management: Skilful
• Fluency in local languages of the designated geographies in both verbal and writing

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! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

Travel RequirementNegligible 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, Customer centric thinking, Customer Segmentation, Customer value proposition, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Generating customer insights, Loyalty Management, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding

Partnership and Development Lead

Job Description:

The Partnership Development Lead drives new business growth across South Africa by identifying and developing Quick Service Resturant and retail opportunities. The role focuses on strategic planning, market analysis, and relationship management to expand partnerships and boost non-fuel revenue within the bpSA network.

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.

Key Accountabilities

Responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities across the bpSA retail network, including conducting site assessments with knowledge of GIS system to evaluate viability based on brand proximity, competitor presence, demographics, and location performance.

With a forward-thinking approach, Proactively monitors and analyzes evolving consumer trends to identify chances to create bpSA retail sites more of a destination.

Strong understanding of rental benchmarking and comparative analysis across various brands and trading formats, with a particular focus on forecourt operations.

Identify and pursue opportunities for co-branding, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and other collaborative initiatives to improve market presence and mutual value creation.

Serve as the key liaison between bp, franchisees, QSR developers, and New Business teams across all partner brands, ensuring alignment and collaboration throughout the development process.

Act with urgency to define rollout schedules and proactively eliminate obstacles in the QSR development process within bp and ensure regular status update meetings.

Demonstrate legal knowledge, with a focus on lease agreements, ensuring accurate interpretation, compliance, and risk mitigation in all property-related negotiations and documentation.

Ensure all new business ventures enforce to local regulatory requirements, health and safety standards, and bp brand guidelines—placing a strong emphasis on safety compliance throughout planning, development, and operational phases.

Performance Monitoring and Analysis: Tracking and analyzing partnership performance, identifying areas for improvement, and reporting on success to senior management.

Innovation and Development: Exploring new partnership opportunities and developing innovative initiatives to improve collaborations.

Ensure the efficient, visible, and compliant management of rental and utility accounts, while proactively addressing and resolving tenant and team member disputes to maintain positive relationships and operational continuity.

Education

Qualification in business or property related studies or minimum of 10 years
Quick Service Restaurant development experience.

Experience
Petroleum and Large Retail and Commercial real estate experience is mandatory.
Demonstrates a proven record of successful negotiation outcomes and the agility to adapt strategies in response to shifting consumer trends and dynamic market conditions

Knowledge and Skills
Strong financial acumen with the ability to develop and present sound business models.
Effective team player with cross-functional collaboration and engagement skills.
Skilled negotiator with excellent interpersonal, follow-up, and persuasive communication
abilities.
Highly organized, structured, and solution-oriented, with a strategic mindset and
adaptability.
Able to translate complex data into actionable insights and communicate across multiple disciplines.

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! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

Travel RequirementNo travel is 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 core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Continued Learning, Continuous improvement, Creativity and Innovation, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Integrated pricing, Knowledge Sharing, Leading transformation, Negotiation planning and preparation, Offer and product knowledge, Offer execution and growth, Operational Excellence, Partner relationship management {+ 10 more}

Retail Business Manager KZN

Job Description:

The Retail Business Manager has the overall accountability for the full P&L of their respective network within a defined geography comprising of Company owned and dealer/franchise operated sites. This means being an active P&L driver, implementing commercial plans to increase fuel and convenience revenue. They will own and develop the area strategy in line with the business performance plan and in accordance to HSSE, legislative and operating standards.

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.

Key Accountabilities

• Spend 80% of the time interacting with business partners and provide leadership to increase sales and deliver financial business plan.
• Supervise key performance indicators and performance trends and take appropriate actions to address issues to optimise the business and deliver outstanding customer service.
• Ensures that the Operator understands and delivers against their contractual obligations and execute the offer and operating standards as prescribed and taking appropriate action if contractual breaches exist.
• Provide coaching to the dealer and staff to take action and achieve both operational excellence and business results.
• Show courage to hold themselves and others accountable for non delivery. Management of unusual events to keep area operating to plan and standard. Review store environments and key business indicators within the area to identify problems, concerns and opportunities.
• Deliver Operational excellence across all stores by addressing weakness or opportunities.
• Enable full compliance with legislation and company policies and procedures and to deliver and maintain consistent operating and merchandising standards. Transparent and purpose driven planning for site visits. Site visits to be priority based with frequency determined on needs.
• Quarterly meetings held with territory to ensure alignment. Notes and minutes of site and quarterly meetings to be available upon request.
• Build strong relations based on trust and honest discussion with site and support teams.
• Participating through providing input into network Development opportunities. One of the key performance indicators is aligning the project activity sets with demand forecasting.

Education

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. A qualification in Business, Marketing and/or Sales

Experience

Minimum of 4 years of working experience within a sales environment

Previous retail experience desirable. Some critical requirements desirous in this role

Proven track record to lead, coach and motivate others to deliver outstanding performance

Sound financial awareness with ability to interpret financial and key performance indicators into clear actions to deliver performance improvement  Self-motivated and performance driven with a passion for retailing excellence  Successful track record of results & goal achievements, improving year on year performances  The ability to work under pressure and handle challenging situations and always striving to do the right thing  Excellent communication and people skills – being able to mentor and coach site staff to drive sales and ensure best in class execution  Ability to understand contents of legal contract and basic interpretation thereof

Travel RequirementUp to 100% 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:Account strategy and business planning, Agility core practices, Business Analysis, Commercial Acumen, Consultative selling skills, Customer Profitability, Customer Segmentation, Customer value proposition, Digital fluency, Global Perspective, Internal alignment, Negotiating value, Offer and product knowledge, Partner relationship management, Sales forecasting/demand planning, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding, Stakeholder Management

Retail Optimization Lead

Job Description:

Reporting to the Operations Excellence Manager, the Retail Optimization Lead is accountable for the end to end project management of all new projects in Sales and Opex & completion of Wet Stock Management (WSM) at all Retail Sites nationally. The receipt, storage and dispensing of fuels is inherently a high-risk activity and therefore, the successful management of fuel stock is a critical within bp retail operations. The management of fuel stocks at retail sites (including fuel reconciliation) is varied between the different ESA countries and execution in South Africa market is of importance to the value chain of retail business.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the project plan and assist in assigning actions to ensure that milestones are completed in accordance with the project plan.
• Assist project lead in ensuring the project is executed in line with the CVP process and appropriate approvals are obtained where required.
• Lead all the work streams (Sales Operations, Logistics, Supply, Assets, GBS, I&TS, Finance and Pricing) to identify all project risks and develop risk mitigations.
• Ensure all risks are updated and maintained in the risk register and led with risk owners.
• Provide updates on project progress to internal stakeholders and compile monthly Governance Board packs.
• Maintain updated records of all project related documents and reports.
• Coordinate and integrate work stream activities to achieve key outputs.
• Conduct joint site visits with engineers, technical authorities and service providers to ensure understanding of technical challenges unique to site and to reach alignment on proposed solutions.
• Prepare budget estimates and draft an EFM for required scope of works at remaining sites requiring wet stock management infrastructure.
• Coordinate ATG equipment installation activities at sites with contractors, site managers and HSSE personnel.
• Ensure full HSSE compliance by contractors/ service providers during execution activities at site.
• Identify areas of improvement pertaining to systems operations and consistency of sales and inventory data.
• Manage the Onsite 360 discrepancies and resolve to improve operations with Sales Teams and stakeholders ATG Alarm Analysis, HSSE support
• Analyze and compile data into reports which feed into monthly HSSE performance reporting.
• Identify trends in data and engage with internal and external stakeholders to gain insights into potential root causes.

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent experience, preference to mechanical

Experience

A minimum of 3 years’ experience in retail operations.

Must have demonstrated an ability to work both independently and in a team. • Good understanding of Retail Strategy, including Sales, Logistics and Supply

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! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

Travel RequirementNo travel is 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 core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Continued Learning, Continuous improvement, Creativity and Innovation, 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, Negotiation planning and preparation, Offer and product knowledge, Offer execution and growth, Operational Excellence {+ 10 more}

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