Head of Solutions Deployment

**Job Profile Summary**

Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and improve people’s lives.

The Advanced Energy Solutions (AES) team within Applied Sciences has been established to drive bp’s research, development, and deployment and innovation agendas in the areas of electrification, energy management and energy systems integration. The team’s purpose, in service of bp’s growth engine businesses, is to position bp to win in these areas by ensuring that bp builds the right key capabilities and places the right technology bets. The team is therefore responsible for leading the effort of combining new and emerging energy technologies and business models to a pre-scale stage.

We are delighted to present this opportunity to be the head of bp’s solutions deployment activities, within the Advanced Energy Solutions team. The role holder will lead the portfolio strategy, capability integration, solution management and commercialisation of advanced energy solutions globally within bp, working hand-in-glove with transition growth engine (TGE) business entity stakeholders and wider I&E and group Strategy, Sustainability & Ventures (SS&V) partners.

**Job Advert**

The Head of Solutions Deployment role is a key, senior management role within the AES team and with global reach. The role is responsible for the overall innovation portfolio strategy for the team, capability integration into business entities and driving new innovations to a pre-scale stage. This role also serves to ensure that cross I&E and business entity strategic alignment is achieved around bp’s integrated energy system innovation agendas and investments. Essentially, the role holder will own, orchestrate, and drive the end-to-end process of commercial deployment of the team’s activities. This role ensures that the AES team’s innovation outcomes deliver maximum commercial and market impact and drives increased value for bp’s growth engine businesses.

**Accountabilities will include**:

- Leadership of AES innovation commercialisation process, driving groundbreaking innovation delivery around energy management and electrification technology solutions
- Setting and being responsible for the global innovation portfolio strategy and leading the innovation investments of the AES team
- Leading and orchestrating capability build up, capability management and capability integration in collaboration with relevant existing or new business entities
- Leading and owning Commercial Solution Management of pre-scale advanced energy solution offerings, including P&L responsibility.
- Team leadership responsibilities of portfolio managers, commercialisation leads and capability integrators.
- Being a leadership role-model, focussing on people’s well-being and personal development

**What do we want to see from you**

You will have proven experience in strategic planning and decision making in a leadership context. You will be comfortable working with ambiguity at a strategic level, as well as in detail at a tactical operational level. Experience of working with agile frameworks will be an advantage.

**Entity**
- Innovation & Engineering

**Job Family Group**
- Research & Technology Group

**Relocation available**
- No

**Travel required**
- Negligible travel

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**About BP**

**INNOVATION & ENGINEERING**

Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.
- Working with us, you can do this by:
- deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions
- driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
- collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
- originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them
- protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks

Because together we are:
- Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
- Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎
- Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive

**Experience Level**
- Senior

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