Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Marketing Group

Job Description:

This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence.  If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

Role Overview

The Digital Portfolio Manager supports the effective operation of Castrol’s digital organisation. The role brings together portfolio oversight, financial planning, vendor management, risk control, and performance reporting. It plays a central part in ensuring that digital work is aligned, well‑governed, and delivering value.

This position works closely with the CIO and digital leadership team to coordinate priorities, manage investment cycles, and maintain a clear operating rhythm across the function.

Key Responsibilities

The role manages the digital portfolio across programmes, products, and major change initiatives. It ensures consistent reporting, structured governance, and visibility of risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.

Portfolio, Governance & Delivery

• Lead the digital portfolio and coordinate governance forums such as the Portfolio Board and Architecture Review Board
• Maintain standards for project and product reporting and delivery
• Monitor portfolio health, value, capacity, and alignment with business priorities

Financial Management

• Prepare the digital budget across run and change activities
• Support investment cases, forecasts, and financial submissions
• Track actuals against forecast and provide clear variance insights

Vendor & Sourcing

• Shape supplier strategy with the Digital Category Lead
• Manage strategic suppliers, including performance, SLAs, KPIs, and renewals
• Oversee contract hygiene and supplier‑related risk management

Risk, Controls & Compliance

• Maintain the digital risk register and support audit, SOX, GDPR, and operational resilience requirements
• Coordinate digital policies, standards, and assurance activities

Operating Model & Ways of Working

• Own the Digital Operating Model, including roles and decision rights
• Support consistent processes across delivery, service, architecture, security, and commercial operations
• Drive improvements that simplify and strengthen ways of working

CIO Rhythm & Communications

• Coordinate the CIO’s operating rhythm, including leadership meetings, reviews, and planning cycles
• Produce dashboards, metrics, and board‑level reporting
• Support internal communications such as town halls, newsletters, and leadership updates

Data, Insights & Analytics

• Maintain a single source of truth for digital KPIs
• Develop dashboards and reporting automation to support decision‑making

People & Culture

• Support workforce planning, capability development, and job architecture
• Partner with People & Culture on leadership development and recruitment
• Contribute to engagement and ways‑of‑working initiatives across the digital organisation

Skills & Experience

The role calls for a blend of portfolio management, financial understanding, and operational coordination. It requires comfort working across technical and non‑technical teams and the ability to bring structure to complex environments.

Core strengths

• Commercial and financial understanding, including budget ownership
• Clear communication and the ability to work with senior customers
• Structured decision‑making and the ability to interpret complex information
• Strong written communication and documentation skills
• Organised, detail‑focused, and consistent in follow‑through
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with day‑to‑day delivery
• Collaborative approach and steady working style

Backgrounds that align well with this role include digital, technology, strategy, operations, or IT finance. Experience in global or matrixed organisations, or in environments undergoing transformation, is also relevant. A degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is helpful but not required.

Why Join Us?

At BP, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others.

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.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this roleThis role is not eligible for relocationThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingBrand Management, Channel marketing activation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer Segmentation, Developing creative marketing content, Digital Fluency, Generating customer insights, Listening, market, Presenting, Sector, Using market research effectively, Writing skills

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.