Strategic Delivery Specialist
About the role
The Strategic Delivery Specialist plays a key role in shaping and performing bp’s Mobility & Convenience Americas (M&CA) strategy. This position delivers insights, structured problem solving, and hands-on support for high-impact strategic and transformation initiatives. Partnering closely with leadership and cross-functional teams, the specialist helps turn strategic priorities into clear, actionable plans.
Responsibilities
- Strategy development support: Contribute to the development and ongoing refinement of the M&CA strategy by conducting structured analyses, preparing summaries of insights, and supporting the evaluation of strategic options aligned with bp’s Customers strategy and low-carbon ambitions.
- Transformation initiative delivery: Support the delivery of strategic and transformation initiatives across M&CA by assisting with workstream coordination, tracking achievements, preparing materials, and helping ensure timely, accurate outputs.
- Analytical support and insight generation: Complete targeted analyses on market trends, customer behavior, competitive activity, financial performance, and regulatory developments to help inform strategic recommendations and business decisions.
- Structured problem solving: Assist in breaking down complex strategic questions into clear components, developing initial hypotheses, gathering relevant facts, and preparing data-backed recommendations for senior leaders.
- Strategy execution support: Help translate strategic priorities into actionable plans by developing draft roadmaps, tracking performance metrics, and supporting teams as they move from planning to implementation.
- Cross-functional coordination: Work collaboratively with teams across Products, Operations, Finance, Digital, Policy, and Sustainability to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure strategic activities are aligned and practical.
- Narrative and materials development: Prepare high-quality presentations, briefing materials, and strategic narratives for leadership discussions, governance processes, and partner engagement forums.
- Business case and financial analysis support: Assist in the development of cases, investment proposals, and value assessments by supporting financial modelling, documenting assumptions, and helping identify risks and value drivers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant professional qualification (MBA beneficial but not required).
- 3–7 years of post-university work experience.
- Experience in strategy, business analysis, or consulting-related roles (preferably in top-tier consulting, private equity, or investment banking firms) is required.
- Exposure to the Oil & Gas or broader energy sector (preferred).
- Experience or familiarity with retail, mobility, or convenience industries (advantageous).
Skills
- Execution and project support: Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage tasks, coordinate across workstreams, and support timely, high-quality delivery in a dynamic environment.
- Structured thinking: Ability to break down problems into clear steps, develop initial hypotheses, and carry out structured analysis with guidance.
- Analytical capability: Solid quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, including basic financial analysis, market research, and data interpretation to support insight generation.
- Clear communication: Ability to create concise, well-structured presentations and materials tailored for a range of stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Collaborative working: Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams, building relationships, and contributing to shared outcomes.
- Commercial and external awareness: Growing understanding of market dynamics, customer needs, and relevant policy or regulatory considerations, ideally within energy, mobility, or retail contexts.
Collaboration
This role collaborates closely with a wide range of partners across the Mobility & Convenience Americas (M&CA) organization, including Products, Operations, Finance, Digital, Policy, and Sustainability teams. The specialist will engage regularly with M&CA leadership and multiple groups within the Strategy & Transformation function to coordinate work, share updates, and support integrated strategy and transformation delivery.
Benefits
- Flexible working options, generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, including a 401k matching program.
- Paid vacation ranging from 120–240 hours per year for full-time employees (60–240 hours for part-time), plus 9 paid holidays and 2 personal choice holidays.
- Up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child.
- Discretionary annual bonus program and long-term incentive program.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and short-term/long-term disability coverage.
Pay
Base compensation range: $100,000 - $186,000.
Schedule
This position is a hybrid of office and remote working with negligible travel expected.