Insights Analyst

bp
Sunbury-on-Thames
1 year ago
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Job Title:Insights Analyst/Manager

Job Location:Sunbury-on-Thames

Contract Length:12 Months (possibility of extension)

Industry:Oil and Energy, EV

Working Hours:8 per day/40 per week


Role Overview:

YOU can help us get there, we’re searching for experts who are passionate and skilled in Operations and Maintenance to help drive operational excellence within our EV charging network. Come join our team to help the world electrify!


This is an opportunity to join a business with an envious position in a fast-growing sector, and ultimately help enable more people to transition to electric vehicles. You will not just be part of the biggest change in the automotive industry for a century - you will be at the forefront of it as we shape the EV charging market in key regions.


As the Global Maintenance Analytics Manager/ Insights Analyst/ Manager, you will play an integral part in our EV programme across several fronts. We want you to define and implement our Global Performance plan that will underpin operational excellence across our EV installed base and be the face of this within the wider bp business.


What you will do:

Lead the Management Information and Data Analytics Program for bp pule Operations Excellence, providing the analytics toolset and data science capability to support the development of insights from the bp pulse EV charging network data and business improvement recommendations.


  • Play a key role in operating out the externally committed target of 100,000 EV units by 2030.
  • Ability to work with and interpret large volumes of data on reliability and performance and derive insights in order to help support critical business decisions.
  • Own the data and analytics value chain for operations, maintenance, reliability, and project controls dashboards (build and maintain).
  • Providing real-time access to performance data to support the organizations’ ability to use insights from data.
  • Lead delivery of operations, maintenance and reliability analytics and be accountable for the execution into the regions.
  • Support standardized performance management across the regions.
  • Ensures that the business and operational requirements are clearly defined, working collaboratively across the maintenance and reliability functions so that the analytical tools delivered meet the needs of the asset groups.
  • Define consistent business metrics and promote their adoption.
  • Be a member of the Operations Excellence leadership team; providing active support and the development of other reliability driven projects and services across the bp pulse operations function.
  • Develop and communicate reliability; use central infrastructure to promote knowledge sharing and standardization
  • Network actively across/with the regional operations leads to promote the value of the performance analysis and the use of this to drive reliability initiatives across the network.
  • Combine data analysis across all the reliability activities and leading the development of the business cases for developing the systems landscape and the integration of systems within bp pulse.
  • Active contribution to the EV Operations and Maintenance strategy for bp pulse on our operational performance agenda and define and implement the most optimum solutions in each region – this strategy is essential and key to leading a customer focused business in a low margin environment.
  • Own the global roadmap for business-critical solutions/tools/technologies to drive improvements and efficiencies.


What you will have:

  • Experience with analysing data to produce well-structured, defendable insights and using these to make recommendations to the business.
  • Strong SQL experience.
  • Strong understanding of data visualization principles and tools, hands-on experience preferred (i.e., Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy).
  • Capable of operating at all levels of the organization, with good interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • The ability to identify gaps within our data and communicate these to the data team by providing detailed requirements.
  • Experience in working across operating functions, e.g., operations, engineering, maintenance & reliability, logistics etc.
  • Strong level of assertiveness, influencing, and communication skills.
  • Strong understanding of business decision-making processes and setting priorities.
  • An understanding of the EV charging infrastructure is beneficial but not essential.


We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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