Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

The Regional Delivery Lead for South Africa will be the single point of accountability for all digital delivery across M&C SA, encompassing consumer, customer, convenience, store operations, fleet, and payments. This role ensures safe and compliant operations while driving commercial strategies through technological expertise and consistent delivery.

This role plays a critical role in translating strategy into actionable steps and driving successful delivery of products, platforms, and services. This hands-on role is focused on day-to-day decision-making and ensuring the right products, platforms and services are being built and delivered efficiently. This role makes key decisions on feature development, balances stakeholder priorities, and ensures that deliverables are built to meet quality, budget, and timeline requirements. They work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs, enabling the seamless delivery of impactful solutions.

What you will deliver

• Strategy & Planning: In this role, you will develop and execute the regional technology strategy to align with the global M&C technology direction, assess and prioritise demand across the region through Operating Plans, and lead the performance management of budgets and delivery, including overseeing dependencies and mitigating risks.

• You will work closely with business to identify, agree and lead strategic business change initiatives across M&C SA.

• Technology delivery management: Lead regional decisions on technologies, design patterns, and development methodologies. Oversee projects involving the development and implementation of products, platforms, and business processes to achieve desired business outcomes. Own the technology vision and roadmap for South Africa, ensuring alignment with the Global Technology Office.

• Oversee solution architecture and system design across multiple teams in the region.Act as the main liaison between stakeholders, development teams, and business units globally dispersed, at various levels within and outside of bp.

• Incorporate Agile frameworks to align and track project progress, resolve dependencies, and ensure continuous delivery of value.

• Data-driven decision-making: Monitor a product, platform, or service's health and key performance characteristics to increase performance, ensure compliance, and optimize operation. Champion transparency across bp by showcasing work in progress, elevating metrics and seeking regular feedback from internal collaborators and users.

• Resource and vendor management: Strategically manage internal teams, key local vendor relationships, and technology partners to balance capacity and ensure efficient delivery without compromising quality. Manage key local vendor relationships.

• Financial management: Oversee budget planning, allocation, and tracking to ensure alignment with business objectives. Monitor financial performance, control costs, and provide accurate reporting to support decision-making and optimize resource utilization across projects, platforms, or services.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• Proven experience in regional technology leadership within retail, convenience, or fleet domains.

• Significant experience working across complex, globally dispersed businesses.

• Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience.

• Successful application of Agile, Lean, and project delivery methods.

• Excellence in balancing strategic priorities with tactical execution, with solid attention to detail.

• Outstanding communication and influence skills, with the ability to engage with a broad range of collaborators and prioritize demands

• Motivated by the challenges of solving complex problems and a passion for making things happen

At this level, the Delivery Manager leads multiple, interdependent projects or programs, driving the execution of strategic objectives and managing cross-functional delivery teams. They exhibit strong leadership by mentoring junior team members and influencing stakeholders across the organization. They ensure alignment between business goals and delivery outcomes, implement best practices for resource allocation and financial management, and resolve complex dependencies across teams. They are skilled at optimizing processes and fostering high-performing, collaborative teams to deliver impactful results.

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!

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

No 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:

Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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.

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