Robotics & Autonomy Lead

• Set strategy, priorities and sequencing for the full automation portfolio across facilities aligned to Upstream strategic objectives and business plans.


• Own portfolio-level value delivery, ensuring investment decisions are value-led, outcomes are realised through adoption, and benefits are sustained in operations.


• Establish and govern portfolio architecture, design principles and delivery guardrails, including reference architectures, patterns, standards and assurance expectations across all automation domains.


• Define and manage financial FM.


• Provide portfolio-level governance of HSSE, ITR, cyber and operational risk, ensuring technology readiness, deployment assurance and compliance prior to scaling.


• Lead portfolio-level risk, dependency and readiness management, including cross-domain interdependencies that sit above individual programmes or squads.


• Develop a standardised approach for moving from R&D to "Operate".


• Shape and govern vendor, partner and category strategy, ensuring long-term commercial coherence, technical consistency and effective relationship management and avoidance of fragmented point solutions.


• Drive enterprise-wide standardisation and reuse of automation methods, platforms, data models and architectures to reduce complexity and lifecycle cost and patterns for rapid scaling and global deployment.


• Build and sustain organisational capability, including developing leaders, strengthening communities of practice and embedding automation expertise within squads.

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership of large, complex, multi-discipline and multi-site portfolios operating at enterprise scale with end-to-end accountability for portfolio strategy, planning, prioritisation, value delivery, cost and risk governance, and performance outcomes.


• Ability to build and manage strong relationships at a senior level.


• Deep Upstream operational expertise, with the credibility and judgement to set strategic direction for automation in live, safety-critical environments.


• Proven ability to define and govern portfolio strategy, balancing value, risk, cost, capability maturity and long-term sustainability.


• Track record of building, scaling and sustaining high-performing cross-domain organisations, including squads and communities of practice.


• Track record in driving innovation across bp's global portfolio and experience providing senior technical and strategic oversight across automation, advanced sensing/robotics and decision intelligence.


• Strong enterprise-level influence and governance capability, operating effectively with VPs, SVPs, functional leaders and external partners.


• Expertise in technology qualification, readiness assessment, scaling and standardisation, including progression from pilot to enterprise deployment.


• Track record in operations delivery, including innovation and strong capability in portfolio value management, prioritisation and optimisation of interdependencies across domains and investment horizons.


• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with experience influencing senior leadership and driving alignment across complex organisations.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in portfolio strategy, governance, and value delivery within automation, ensuring alignment with Upstream operational objectives. Proven ability to lead cross-domain organizations and manage complex interdependencies while driving innovation and standardization across enterprise-scale deployments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Portfolio Strategy Development


• Risk Governance and Management


• Stakeholder Engagement


• Cross-Domain Organization Leadership


• Technology Qualification and Readiness Assessment

ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills

• Portfolio Value Management


• Cost Governance


• Operational Risk Management


• Automation Standardization


• Advanced Sensing/Robotics


• Decision Intelligence


• Performance Outcomes Optimization


• Financial Management


• Innovation Driving


• Safety-Critical Environment Expertise

Soft Skills

• Relationship Management


• Influencing Senior Leadership


• Community Building


• Strategic Direction Setting


• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Upstream Operations


• Enterprise Scale


• Automation Portfolio


• Governance Frameworks


• Deployment Assurance


• Value Delivery


• Interdependencies Management


• Commercial Coherence


• Technical Consistency


• Operational Excellence