Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

About bp :
At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function cultivates a diverse culture where everybody can thrive. As part of a coordinated energy company, PC&C is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused.

We’re investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast-moving PC&C function, establishing teams and structures and driving continuous improvement.

We’re looking for driven, ambitious5mins enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If you're ready to build something ground-breaking, this is the place for you.

Role Synopsis:
Support People & Culture (P&C) Vice Presidents (VPs) and Senior Managers in delivering underpinning successful execution of strategic objectives.
Leverage HR expertise to drive strategic people activities including organizational effectiveness & transformation, talent management, employee engagement, encouraging a successful work environment.

Please note: The external job title for this role is HR Senior Business Partner, the internal job title is Senior People & Culture Partner.

Role Purpose:
Member of a squad with a global vs. a country specific remit and impact, along with Center of Excellence (CoE) colleagues.
Work flexibly across single or multiple concurrent projects/activities that may vary in terms of complexity, business impact, geographical spread, and duration.

Role Reporting Relationships: No direct or indirect reports.

Role Accountabilities:
•Align with partners & colleagues to develop, plan, and implement prioritized strategic people initiatives fostering a growth mindset.
•Adopt agile methodologies to ensure cost-effective delivery of activities through a prioritized flow to work model.
•Work as a distributed team to translate people priorities/plans into tangible actions/project outcomes.
•Work effectively as a multi-disciplinary squad, often collaborating across geographies and time zones to ensure effective delivery.
•Maintain business knowledge to ensure results are contextualized to the needs of different parts of the client organization as needed.
•Leverage and interpret data and insights relevant to the delivery of prioritized activities.
•Partner with business leaders as needed to ensure successful delivery of people priorities, plans and projects.
•Align with bp’s safety leadership principles, office safety expectations and code of conduct, and demonstrate bp’s Who We Are beliefs.
•Where based in a country with 24/7 bp operating businesses, willingness and ability to support Crisis & Continuity Management (C&CM) and/or Incident Management Team (IMT) activities as needed.

Formal Education Requirements:
Degree. Postgraduate qualification in Human Resources or a connected field would be advantageous.

Skills:
•Leading change
•Psychological safety
•Programme management
•Partner management
•Communication
•Continuous improvement
•Organizational knowledge
•Commercial competence
•Analytical thinking
•Agile core principles
•Resilience
•Partnership
•Coaching
•Customer centric thinking

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

The role holder will have 8-15 years’+ experience gained across HR subject areas within commercial and/or operational environments.

Note – there will be a requirement for different levels of knowledge and experience to ensure the capability spread needed to deliver projects/initiatives

Behavioral:

Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to articulate HR concepts clearly and concisely.

Influencing: Positively influences others to create acceptance for decisions, build consensus or resolve disputes. Uses techniques fostering outcomes that meet strategic and people goals.

Adaptability & Resilience: Thrives in constant change and complex, fast-paced, ambiguous environments. Bounces back from setbacks stronger and more resilient.

Global great teammate: Works effectively with cross-cultural teams and in diverse cultural environments. Prioritizes the team and enables its success.

Continuous improvement: Open to feedback, continuous learning and self-development.

Performance bias: Dedicated, accountable, solution oriented and sets high standards.

Technical:

Functional breadth: Experience and delivery track record across HR activities including business partnering, reward, performance management, talent management, learning & development, employee relations, organizational development, etc.
Organizational transformation: Experience in leading organizational change activities including divestments, acquisitions, restructurings and change.
Project management: Leading and/or supporting HR project implementation and execution.
Analytical thinking: Uses the power of people data to deliver insights and identify patterns, trends and correlations to support evidence-based decision making.
Problem solving: Able to identify problems and develop practical, sustainable solutions using a variety of techniques.

Stakeholder management: Establishes and handles mutually beneficial and responsive collaborations, building rapport, trust and credibility.
Commercial Competence: Is aware and considerate of how their role impacts both day to day and strategic commercial initiatives Able to translate business requirements into impactful HR solutions.
Coaching: Able to coach and guide senior business leaders on HR related issues.

Desirable Experience:
Experience working with agile methodologies (scrum, kanban, etc.)
Hands on with HR systems (Workday and/or Salesforce)

Why join us?

At bp, 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.

Diversity Statement: We provide an excellent environment and benefits such as an open and diverse 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!
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, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Culture and behaviour change, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Employee and labour relations, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Facilitation, Global Perspective, Influencing, Job Design, Leadership Assessment, Leading transformation, Long Term Planning, Managing change, Managing workforce concerns {+ 11 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.