Strategize, oversee, and lead the complete lifecycle of corporate hardware assets, including laptops, desktops, mobile devices, meeting room equipment, and peripheral devices.
Lead the procurement process, ensuring alignment with business needs, budgetary constraints, and vendor capabilities.
Ensure smooth distribution, maintenance, and timely decommissioning of all hardware devices.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):
Manage the organization s VDI estate, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient virtual environments.
Operational Excellence:
Develop and maintain standard methodologies for device management, including policies for provisioning, patch management, security compliance, and troubleshooting.
Lead the adoption of modern management tools, processes, and technologies to enhance automation and reduce downtime.
Vendor and Stakeholder Management:
Cultivate strong relationships with key technology partners and hardware providers.
Collaborate cross-functionally with IT, security, and business teams to ensure devices meet organizational requirements.
Team Leadership and Development:
Lead a team of skilled professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
Build capability within the team to stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends.
Strategic Initiatives:
Evaluate and implement innovative solutions to optimize the corporate device ecosystem, including sustainability initiatives for hardware management.
Drive alignment between device strategy and organizational goals.
Key characteristics of senior leaders at bp
Intellectually curious : comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to build an achievable strategic product vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.
Communicator Influencer : comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your service vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.
Do-er : youre biased toward action and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way.
Customer focus : you care about growing others and bringing them together around whats possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our employees to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.
Learner : you have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies.
Team player : you enjoy working with a diverse set of people and driving the team toward a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in technology. You are an expert in guiding teams towards outcomes. Provides people leadership, team leadership, and models cross-discipline/org influence.
Key qualifications:
Proven track record in device lifecycle management and end-user computing in a large enterprise environment, working with leading hardware providers (e.g., Dell).
Solid experience running VDI estates
Deep understanding of modern device management frameworks and tools (e.g., Intune, SCCM, Jamf).
Excellent leadership skills, with a focus on team development and customer engagement.
Strategic problem solver with the ability to lead large-scale projects and drive groundbreaking initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with sustainability practices in device management.
Familiarity with enterprise IT security standards related to device management.