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As bp transitions to an integrated energy company, we must adapt to a changing world and maintain driven performance. Bp's customers & products (C&P) business area is setting up a business and technology centre (BTC) in Pune, India. This will support the delivery of an enhanced customer experience and drive innovation by building global capabilities at scale, maximising technology, and developing deep expertise . The BTC will be a core and connected part of our business, bringing together colleagues who report into their respective part of C&P, working together with other functions across bp. This is an exciting time to join bp and the customers & products BTC! Shift Timing : 12.30 PM - 9.30 PM IST About the role: As the Data Specialist - Pricing, you will work alongside business leads for specific process areas, partnering with I&E, GBS, PUs, HUBs, Functions, and Markets to handle change, adoption, and sustainability of pricing frameworks aligned with the Business Strategy. This role will drive strategic pricing data lineage in the Data Lake, ensuring that the end state in the given process area is sustainable and operationally aligned with business leadership expectations and the Business Strategy. You are able to apply your expertise in the depth of the process hand-offs, the process links to the ERP transaction and related master data. The role drives strategic transformation, ensuring sustainable and operational alignment with leadership expectations. It requires fluency in agile methodology, acting and flexing as an SME, product owner, or scrum master based on project needs! Key Responsibilities: • Lead pricing data lineage from ERP & pricing source systems, normalisation and harmonization into star schema format for Data Lake embedding. • Approve required changes to pricing data, data structures, pricing metadata and master data. • Ensure pricing related processes and data are fit for purpose • Guide authorities through pricing data validation and query resolution • Support Global ERP systems processes and pricing data management during deployment to ensure alignment with project objectives and timelines • Support pricing data cutover and power outage phases • Support integration sessions with process architects to handle pricing data changes • Applying end-to-end strategic views to operational changes for process optimization, transactional fluidity, master data management and improved business performance. • Creating and supporting the execution of the Business Change Backlog to deliver incremental business change. • Advising & supporting planning and deployment activities to embed and sustain change. • Advising and supporting Data Governance related to Master Data Quality Management and Data performance related to transactional fluidity. • Acting as the process TAG for ERP design and setup, support Data Modelling for relevant data sources related to the Sales & Marketing Value Centres in the Castrol Data & Analytics landscape. • Recommending improvements and capability development to the Global Data & Analytics Lead and customers. • Collaborate with peer groups, using expertise across the subject area and drive integration • Working across timezones and lead multi disciplinary teams at a project or initiative bases. • Have a solutioning approach to think and build global with the ability to scale to local with tactical short term and strategic midterm delivery/alignment. Experience Required: • Experience in Pricing Operations with a minimum of 10 year operations in multiple aspects if the Sales Value Chain process execution. • Shown experience and deep domain knowledge of working with all affiliated pricing and marketing data objects • Shown deep experience of efficiently delivering business transformation as part of major ERP implementations and/or major business transformation projects. • Deep understanding in specified data & process area: Product portfolio management, Pricing waterfall, Net Hard Floor, rebates, Pricing conditions, dynamic pricing algorithms, Market & Pricing Intelligence, Pricing forecasting, pricing elasticity and the integration points with other data and process areas to ensure successful delivery of end to end. • Tenacious in getting issues resolved and collaborative solution - oriented thinking while balancing business strategy and process frameworks. Knowledge & Skills Required: • Good understanding of pricing data objects and their role in end-to-end processes • Familiarity with source & target systems and the role of pricing data within them ea: SAP, JDE • Trained in Agile methodology • Work across multiple levels of detail: data (master data & transactional), process design principles, operating model intent and systems design • Strong influencing skills and change leader to bring expertise and experience to shape value delivery • Consistent record of successful deployment in own area, across input and output success criteria measures You will work with : You will be part of a 20 headed Global team called Global Data & Analytics Team. You will operate peer to peer in a team of global best-in-class authorities on Process, Data, Advanced Analytics skill and Data Science. The Global Data & Analytics team reports into the Castrol Digital Enablement team that is running the digital estate for Castrol where we enhance scalability, process and data integration. This D&A team is the driving force behind the Data & Analytics strategy being responsible for the Harmonized Data Lake and the Business Intelligence derived from it, in support of the Business strategy and is a key pilar of value enablement through fast and accurate insights. You will engage will be exposed to a wide variety of customers in all layers of the Castrol Leadership and our partners in GBS and Technology. Through Data Governance at Value centre you have excellent exposure to the operations and have the ability to influence and lead change through value preposition engagements. Within the team we foster an open & inclusive culture where the collective powers the high quality outcome and speed of delivery. It is a team that stands on each other's shoulders to always be part of the solution and deliver towards optimal outcome.

Job Title: Data Specialist Location: Bangalore Experience: 5+ years Reports to: Head of Analytics Notice Period: Immediate to 20 days. About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Specialist to join our data science team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Python , SQL , and M achine Learning as Mandatory , and will play a key role in building data-driven solutions that drive business decisions and impact. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable machine learning models to solve real-world business problems. Translate business requirements into clear analytical solutions using data science techniques . Write optimized SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and analyze large datasets. Develop and deploy production-ready code using Python . Collaborate with data engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to build end-to-end data products. Communicate complex findings in a clear, concise manner to non-technical stakeholders. Continuously monitor and improve the performance of deployed models. Mentor junior data scientists and review their code/models as needed. Required Qualifications Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field. 5+ years of hands-on experience in data science, analytics, or machine learning. Expert proficiency in Python , including libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, NumPy, etc. Strong experience in SQL for data extraction and transformation. Proven ability to build and evaluate supervised and unsupervised ML models. Experience with model deployment, version control (e.g., Git), and working in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure). Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Strong communication and collaboration skills. Nice to Have: AI frameworks to develop LLM based solutions or Agentic solutions in Pythons