Job Family Group:
Business Support Group
Job Description:
Job Purpose
Support Channel Sales Managers (B2B) to proactively explore channel/customer business opportunities across OEM, FWS, CVO, and Industry segments to increase sales, strengthen brand presence at the point of sale, reduce operational costs, and optimize working capital — in alignment with channel/customer strategy. The role focuses on trade marketing planning and execution to drive growth and competitive advantage in B2B channels.
Key Accountabilities
Strategy Alignment
Seek to understand channel/customers' needs across OEM, FWS, CVO, and INDUSTRY segments and translate them into strategic trade marketing actions.
Identify and implement solutions to optimize operations costs and working capital.
Support Sales Managers in identifying new business opportunities and customer acquisition.
Develop and execute trade marketing plans including promotions, incentive programs, and point-of-sale activations tailored to each B2B segment.
Conduct or initiate research to understand customer behavior and competitive landscape where necessary.
Performance Management
Analyze channel/customer performance including volume, turnover, gross margin, and service levels.
Identify root causes, develop action plans, and highlight performance insights to the CSM and broader commercial team.
Facilitate performance tracking for trade and marketing program execution.
Leverage financial, trade loan, ROI, and customer/product master data to assess and improve profitability.
Monitor and evaluate trade marketing ROI and recommend optimization actions.
Project Management
Lead or support strategic trade marketing initiatives by developing project proposals, obtaining budgets, and aligning stakeholders.
Act as a key facilitator to drive project execution across internal and external partners (distributors, workshops, OEM partners).
Ensure solution development and delivery are aligned with customer/channel plans.
Knowledge & Capability Development
Identify internal and external capability gaps and coordinate with the capability team to address them.
Build and maintain a central repository of trade marketing materials, program guidelines, and performance metrics.
Drive communication strategies and ensure tactical deployment across teams and channel partners.
OMS Responsibilities
Leadership – Planning & Controls: Support risk identification and performance improvement planning.
Organization – People & Competence: Develop team capabilities impacting operational performance.
Performance Review: Analyze data and provide performance recommendations to ensure target delivery.
Key Challenges
Balancing commercial agility with trade marketing effectiveness to drive profitability and customer satisfaction across diverse B2B segments (OEM/FWS/CVO/Industry).
Ensuring cross-functional alignment and consistent execution of channel/customer strategies.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Engineering or related fields.
Experience
Minimum 8–10 years of relevant experience, including:
At least 3 years in sales, business development, or customer/channel management.
At least 3 years in trade marketing, channel marketing, or B2B marketing.
Proven experience in commercial performance analysis and project leadership.
Project Management experience is an advantage.
Skills & Competencies
Safety: Follow the requirements specified in OMS, and contribute to the delivery of safe, compliant, and reliable operations.
Respect: Create an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is treated with respect and dignity.
Excellence: Pursue systematic management through standardization and clarification.
Courage: Always aim to do the right thing based on BP's rules and standards, and respond to challenges with resilience and reason.
One Team: Lay the foundations for the future by helping people develop their capabilities.
Commercial Skills:
Customer Profitability & Value Chain Understanding – Masterly
Customer Segmentation & Channel Management – Masterly
Sector, Market, Customer & Competitor Understanding – Masterly
LBM Performance Planning & Sales Management – Masterly
Trade Marketing Strategy & Execution – Masterly
Technical Skills:
Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Data Analysis, Power BI, AI Augmentation
Trade promotion planning and ROI analysis
Market and competitive analysis
Soft Skills:
Strong communication and stakeholder management
Inclusive mindset, resilience, and agility to lead cross-functional projects
Fluent in English (spoken & written), flexible to travel as required.
At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:
A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the demeanor of giving back to our environment are highly valued
Possibility to join our social communities and networks
Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
Life and health insurance, medical care package
And many other benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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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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