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Regional Chartering & Voyage Operations Lead - West (Castrol)
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Regional Chartering & Voyage Operations Lead - West (Castrol)
Job Family Group: Shipping Group
Job Description
This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is encouraged that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.
Role Summary
We are building Castrol’s independent marine capability, and this role plays an integral part in that journey. As the Regional Chartering & Voyage Operations Lead for the West region, we rely on you to help us deliver safe, compliant, and efficient marine shipments across sophisticated routes. We work closely with partners across the supply chain, and this role helps us bring clarity, stability, and strong judgement to a fast-moving operational environment.
What You Will Deliver
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TSA readiness & transition
- We are preparing for a smooth shift from TSA support to our own internal execution model.
- Build understanding of regional shipping flows, suppliers, and constraints
- Shadow TSA and provider operations to prepare for transition
- Shape regional procedures, governance, and escalation pathways
- Support a flawless move into Castrol’s internal operating model
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Chartering & voyage execution
- We depend on this role to guide day-to-day chartering and voyage execution.
- Manage spot, term, and contract chartering
- Oversee vessel scheduling, nomination, loading, discharge, and voyage execution
- Deliver safe, reliable, and efficient operations
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Fleet utilisation & optimisation
- We aim to use our fleet effectively and responsibly.
- Improve vessel utilisation and turnaround
- Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable cost
- Provide insight into routing, freight optimisation, and network planning
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Supply–demand integration
- We work closely with supply, planning, and commercial teams to keep operations aligned.
- Manage capacity constraints and rescheduling
- Balance operational trade-offs to protect customer commitments
- Share regional insights to support network optimisation
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Demurrage & operational risk
- We rely on this role to help us manage risk and respond quickly when issues arise.
- Oversee demurrage exposure, port delays, claims, and disruptions
- Resolve exceptions with sound judgement
- Supervise voyage performance and operational risks
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Terminal & customer coordination
- We collaborate with a wide network of partners to keep operations moving.
- Coordinate with ports, terminals, barge operators, agents, and suppliers
- Ensure smooth ship-shore interface
- Build relationships with brokers, ship operators, and regional partners
- Align with the Logistics Control Tower for visibility and escalation
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- Governance & compliance
- We hold ourselves to high standards of safety and compliance.
- Ensure adherence to vetting, clearance, HSSE, sanctions, and marine risk controls
- Operate within global governance frameworks
- Partner with the Marine Vetting & Clearance Specialist to ensure safe execution
What You Will Need to Be Successful
We are looking for someone who brings a strong understanding of how marine operations work end-to-end and who can help us run reliable, safe, and efficient regional shipping activity. Success in this role comes from combining operational rigor with practical judgement. We value people who stay calm in fast-moving situations, who can navigate disruption without losing sight of safety or service, and who build strong working relationships with terminals, barge operators, brokers, and service providers.
If you enjoy solving operational challenges, working across diverse teams, and shaping how a new capability grows, you will thrive here.
You’ll stand out if you also bring:
- Experience in oil & gas, lubricants, or chemical shipping
- Familiarity with voyage management or chartering systems
- Exposure to TSA or transition-related operating models
- Comfort working across multiple geographies and time zones
You Will Work With
We work closely with teams across shipping operations, supply chain, procurement, commercial, and planning. You will also partner with terminals, barge operators, ship owners, brokers, agents, and marine service providers. We are a team focused on operational excellence, continuous improvement, and building a resilient marine logistics capability for the future.
Why join us?
At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are important, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!
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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
- Analytical Thinking
- Analytical Thinking
- Ancillary cost management
- Bunker buyer
- Chartering
- Coaching
- Commercial Acumen
- Communication
- Customer service delivery excellence
- Demurrage
- Developing and implementing strategy
- Listening
- Marine assurance
- Marine Operations
- Marine systems and processes
- Marine technical
- Market Knowledge
- Mentoring
- Negotiating value
- Operational Excellence
- Partner relationship management
- Problem Solving
- Sentiment and Trends
- Shipping/transport
- Trading and scheduling operations
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status.
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