Castrol Sales Graduate Programme (Aug 2025)

Job description

Joining Castrol, bp's global lubricants company, means you'll be exposed to a world of opportunity. Castrol is one of the leading automotive and industrial lubricant manufacturing and marketing companies, with a proud heritage of innovation and success over 100 years. We have demonstrated our commitment to our consumers for over a century by offering a range of superior-quality performance and pioneering technology products, backed by high levels of customer service.

Joining our team means

• being customer-centric, agile, and responsive to changing customer needs and dynamic markets
• focusing on the growth and development of customer offers
• optimizing the chemicals and fuels value chains to maximize integrated value
• contributing to the reduction of the carbon intensity of the products we create, and sell, by 50% by 2050 or sooner
• creating strategic partnerships that drive long-term value for C&P
• being digitally enabled and empowered by customer insights and data to deliver solutions

About the Programme

Our Sales graduate program is global – wherever you’re based, you’ll benefit from the same outstanding training, development, and support. This is a wonderful chance to start learning and growing with us as you work on some exciting and challenging projects. In sales, there are opportunities to explore new channels for business decisions where you could gain broad exposure to a variety of sales verticals for delivering the right products and services to our customers.

It is a 3-year program, and the rotational structure of our program provides you with choice which means you’ll be challenged in many ways – all of which will build your confidence, expertise, and experience at pace, giving you the flexibility to eventually take your career in the direction that suits you best.

As a Sales Graduate you...

• Have a customer focus mindset; you can put yourself into the shoes of the customer when building offer development and loyalty strategies
• Are creative and innovative; a ‘big picture’ thinker who thrives on using data insights to drive loyalty and value for our customers
• Are fulfilled from delivering value to the customer, our internal business, and external customers
• Are digital savvy and want to use technology to enhance our customer experience
• Enjoy building strong partnerships and hold the ability to use multiple styles and channels to adapt to the customer
• A degree in chemistry, engineering, or business-related field is preferred.

About you ​

You are passionate about reimagining energy for people and our planet, are committed and adaptable, and want to make a difference. You’ll bring well-rounded life experience, and your strong academic results will be supported by some work experience, everything from customer service to industry experience is great!

You’ll have strong organizational skills and the ability to deliver results in a collaborative environment. Your agility to learn and adapt will be key along with the energy, motivation, and ownership to make the most of this fantastic opportunity. You’ll be comfortable making courageous and bold decisions and have digital fluency, and a keen eye for analytics and the insights they provide.

We know you’re early in your career – we don’t expect you to be an expert.

As a bp graduate, you will have an interest and/or skill in delivering economic value to a business, identifying solutions and strategies resulting in cost savings and a natural negotiation style. No matter where you work at BP, you’ll be valued, included, and respected. We’ll provide you with ongoing support and we’ll reward you for the great work you do.

To be eligible for the Sales Graduate Programme you will:

• To apply to this role, you will preferably need a 3.2 CGPA and above, or equivalent, in Chemistry, Engineering, or Business-related fields.
• You’ll also need to be in your final year of study or have graduated less than a year.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.  
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel will be an added advantage.  
• Ability to learn fast, multi-task, and self-manage priorities.   
• Engaging and collaborative way of working. 
• Candidates that can join on 4th August 2025 only will be considered. 

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal-opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

Please note the following when applying:   

• You can only apply to 1 bp early careers opportunity globally per academic year – within this time, we will only process the first application you make, and you’ll be withdrawn from any subsequent applications.    
• Please note that vacancies are filled on an ongoing basis after opening and we may close applications before any stated deadline. Therefore, we highly recommend you submit your application as early as possible to be considered for the opportunity of your choice.  

Additional information

• Travel Requirement
  • No travel is 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:
  • Channel Management, Customer promise execution, Customer Segmentation, Customer Service Design, Delivering an effortless customer experience, Demand Management, Digital fluency, Internal alignment, Negotiating value, Offer and product knowledge, Operational pricing, Sales forecasting/demand planning, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding, Using insights dashboards