Job summary
Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
Research & Technology Group
Job Description:
Job Purpose
- The Senior OEM Liasion is the interface between the Industrial Technology team and Industrial Sales and GAM functions which whom he aligns the strategy. He coordinates all major OEM activities for the Industrial Business in China both internal and external.
- The Senior OEM Liasion is responsible to develop and maintain technical relationships with OEMs in agreement with the Sales and GAM team.
Key Accountabilities:
Strategy
- Develop and manage strategic technical relationships with OEMs, Key Additive Suppliers, Industrial Associations and Universities to enable access to novel, leading edge additive technologies and processes
- Support development of technology strategies for OEMs
- Interact with Sales and GAM and ensures link of existing strategies into the Industrial OEM strategy
- Deliver ideas for innovative products and technologies, in line with global strategy and future trends and opportunities.
- Build knowledge concerning applications / processes and their influences on chemistries within Industrial products including competitors' products used in similar environments
Planning
- Project manage independently global OEM activities with regular stakeholder reviews and updates
- Identifies customer needs and industry trends and inputs into the global technology strategy
Implementation
- Responsible for the execution, documentation and reporting of OEM projects
- Regular customer visits to OEM to keep contact to the technical management and enlarge Castrol contact map
- Organizes and coordinates Strategy & Technology Days with strategic OEMs
- Collects and documents information in written reports on key OEMs, sector information and market trends
- Hold technical lectures at relevant trade shows and industry meetings
- Support knowledge management within the group
Monitoring
- Provide good quality documentation of topics and share with the greater Technology Community and Sales / GAM and marketing
- Tracks relevant KPIs for the execution to the OEM strategy
- Adhere to HSSE, compliance and QM standards
Organization
- Represents Castrol in the Industry and participation in relevant Industry bodies and trade shows
- Co-engineering with OEMs to capture relevant trends and strategic developments
- Support, coach and mentor members of the team to improve their overall capability and performance
Requirements:
Education
- Degree or higher in chemistry, engineering or equivalent
Essential experience and job requirements
- 5+ years’ relevant experience in the Additive, Lubricant or Related Industry.
- Experience in customer management
- Industry knowledge on lubricant use
- Deep knowledge of tribology
- Industrial Lubes experience
- A sense for value add customer offers
Desirable criteria & qualifications
- In depth understanding of current and future engineering and lubricants trends
- Ability to work cross-functionally, interact at most senior levels, internally and externally
- Intercultural experience
- Strong network of contacts in the industry
Why join us?
- At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life! These benefits can include flexible working options, paid parental leave policy among others!
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Travel Requirement
Up to 25% travel should be 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:
Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Creating new methodologies, Experimental Design, Formulated product testing, Formulation Deployment, Formulation design, Intellectual Asset Management, Multi-physics modelling, Presenting, Product Development, Product Sustainability Performance Management, Raw materials knowledge, Research and development, Rheology, Safety management across the value chain, Science and Technology Leadership, Scientific publication, Technology Management Processes, Testing electric vehicle charging systems, Thought Leadership, Tribology, Vehicle propulsion technologies, Waterfall Model, Writing skills
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