Key Responsibilities

• Support management, maintenance and change of the contracting policies, templates, schedules, articles, and coordinating with Legal and other SMEs as required.
• Support in selecting a suitable contract template based on the respective Scope of Work and in alignment with Contracting Policies and Procedures.
• General advice, including support on the meaning of legal clauses, its application and evaluation of contractual risk.
• Support negotiations efforts (most of effort is in this area).
• Support analysis of the business needs and support development of functional specifications required for the Contracting Transformation projects.
• Develop, with Legal support, the appropriate contracting topics to support continuing education opportunities for procurement, co-own contracting training sessions with Sourcing & Contracting to support the upskilling of contracting capabilities in procurement practitioners.
• Provide coaching and mentorship for other Contract Advisory team members.
• Support harmonisation of contracting processes across procurement – providing cross-divisional process standards.
• Support the gathering, compilation, and production of relevant business analytics on contracting processes performances.
• Support assessment of contracting process performance and efficiency against market capabilities to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support process discovery walkthroughs with the embedded business teams and service delivery teams to identify most impactful changes.
• Actively participate and provide input on process and system changes to improve process standardisation and simplification, working with Digital Solution & Transformation, Technology and other relevant partners.

Essential Education, Experience And Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Legal or equivalent.
• More than 8 years working experience in Contracting and Procurement in the energy sector (Upstream, Downstream, IT related, Indirect, Workplace).
• Considerable Business/Process Analysis experience, preferably with strong user interaction.
• Strong knowledge of tools and systems associated with data gathering, compilation and analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in process management and re-engineering, if possible.
• Have in-depth knowledge of Procurement and contracting processes. Extensive knowledge and practical application experience in contract drafting, negotiations, contract assurance and review and contract management.
• A consistent track record of experience in developing business requirements and/or participation in large scale process re-design initiatives in contracting. Relevant, previous experience with continuous improvement tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of project and change management methodologies and financial/operational control practices.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering 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, paid parental leave policy among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.