Area Manager

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Retail Group

Job Description:

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We’re looking for a dynamic, experienced Area Manager to lead and optimise retail operations across Madrid (Centro/Norte) territory. You’ll drive commercial growth, strengthen customer experience, and ensure operational excellence across multiple sites, working closely with partners, franchisees, and internal stakeholders.

What you’ll do

• Own results for your territory: sales, performance, and site standards.
• Visit sites regularly, spot issues early, and fix them fast.
• Mentor site teams and support managers with clear goals and follow-up.
• Use customer and sales data to decide what to improve and where to invest time.
• Keep sites compliant with BP standards and local requirements.
• Work closely with partners/franchisees and key internal teams.
• Handle supplier/partner discussions when needed (commercial terms, agreements).
• Share updates clearly—what’s working, what isn’t, and what you need from others.

What you need

• Experience handling multiple retail locations (Area Manager or similar).
• Confirmed results improving sales and operational performance.
• Strong people leadership: coaching, performance conversations, training follow-through.
• Comfortable working with numbers (sales, margins, customer metrics).
• Solid communication and negotiation skills.
• Spanish and English (spoken and written).
• Driver’s license and willingness to travel across your territory.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Travel Requirement

Up to 50% 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:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Creativity and Innovation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital Fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Integrated pricing, Leading transformation, market, Negotiation planning and preparation {+ 13 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

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. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.