Job summary
Entity:
Customers & Products
Job Family Group:
Marketing Group
Job Summary:
Responsible for supporting the strategy development for products/offers/categories for a specific market, assisting with implementation activities, creating the customer value proposition, developing the communications plan and ensuring alignment with business priorities and requirements.
Job Description:
🚀 Join Castrol's Data Center Cooling Revolution! 🌐
Be the catalyst for change as our Data Center Business Development Manager. Dive into the heart of innovation with our immersion cooling tech, driving sustainable data center operations in line with bp's Net Zero goals.
🌍 Lead Castrol's China charge in the immersion cooling fluid market for data centers and edge applications. Your creativity, leadership, and self-starter mindset will shape the future.
🔗 Collaborate globally, break boundaries, and enjoy an agile, high-impact environment. Join our dynamic team for unmatched personal growth and development.
💡 Ready to shape the future of data center cooling? Join us and redefine the industry with key players in data centers, IT, and global tech giants. Let's revolutionize together. 🚀
- Be the local SME and champion for the growth territory, engaging, aligning and energizing key partners in the PU and supporting functions
- Lead immersion cooling business development efforts in China building a robust customer pipeline and manage customer and partners along the full buying journey delivering strong growth for Castrol
- Lead development of new partnerships with regional immersion cooling players and support of partnerships with global companies
- Work closely with the PU to develop the business case, marketing plans and sales plans
- Transfer internal and external best practice from other markets and share local best practice with the global organisation
- Champion the new business area within the PU and transfer knowledge to existing sales teams, serving as a leader for this opportunity
- Build strong customer and market understanding relevant to the market to ensure customer-focus in all commercial activities
- Bring strong commercial competence and a business development attitude to the programme, helping to ensure profitable, material, long-term growth
- Represent Castrol within relevant industry groups and extent Castrol industry network
- Support global offer development and local offer deployment in the immersion cooling territory
Essential Experience
- Experience in commercial roles focused on generating growth within offer development, commercial development, business development in corporate or start-up setting
- IT solution architecture experience desired
- Proven ability to develop, maintain and build new relationships with customers, OEMs and Industry bodies
- Ability to present persuasive offers to senior level management within the customer’s business
- Track record of delivery – bringing new concepts or offers to customers, or inspiring change in an organisation
- Experience in dealing with uncertainties and ability to excel in VUCA environments
- Ideally, experience in leading small high-performance teams
- Ideally, knowledge and well-developed networks in data center / IT industry, ideally within facility and cooling solutions for data centers
Education
- Degree or equivalent experience professional qualifications / experience
Why Join our team !
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.
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 and are committed to accommodate individuals with disabilities during the application process, interviews, and throughout their employment.
Contact us to request reasonable adjustments. Flexible working arrangements are available with our hybrid working.
Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.
Apply now!!
Travel Requirement
Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
Relocation may be negotiable for this role
Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:
Customer Segmentation, Digital fluency, Digital innovation, Generating customer insights, Integrated Planning, Managing strategic partnerships, Offer and product knowledge, Offer Development, Partner relationship management, Performance and planning, Performance management, Product Ownership, Project Management, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding, Stakeholder Engagement, Using market research effectively
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 disabilities may request a reasonable 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 accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.
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