Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role:

The Procurement Senior Advisor provides category leadership for key sub-categories of spend in support of the Subsurface global category. They undertake category management and global supplier relationship management, driving end-to-end spend management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve value delivery, including sustainability, within their category. They do this through collaborating across and beyond procurement, including with regional, business, and FB&T resources.

The role will primarily support the global Subsurface Category Mgr in development and implementing category strategies, handling category demand, leading supplier relationships, delivering business value, supporting FBT sourcing and contracting

What you will deliver:

• Skillfully navigates bp’s complex operational frameworks, guaranteeing consistent strategy delivery and uninterrupted supply flow to make procurement easier for suppliers and partners to work with.

• Consider regional factors like laws, taxes, and market conditions in category management planning.

• Cultivates hardworking partnerships and robust supplier relationships to navigate business challenges and unlock triple bottom line (people, profit & planet) value

• Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation

• Partner with internal field teams to drive category excellence

• Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption

• Builds category knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure strategy execution

• Develops their technical capabilities in order to deliver category operational excellence

• Adopts accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and collaboration with both suppliers and interested parties

• Accepts an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation

• Leads and influences through complexity and ambiguity, handling virtual relationships with partners in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments

• Unites diverse participants, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges

• Builds customer relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to collaborators

• Prepares documentation and relevant partner communication to enable key decision forums
  

What you will need to be successful:

• An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through to execution in the businesses / assets

• An ability to quickly develop an understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and its objectives

• Knowledge of procurement within a complex multinational business

• Knowledge in relevant procurement categories with an understanding of the market's dynamics and its influence on procurement strategies

• Experience in leading initiatives internationally, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing agile/flexible approaches

• An advocate for our code, they incorporate the Operating Management System (OMS) and our safety leadership principles into strategies and everyday work

• Adopts industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneers innovative solutions whilst handling risk

• Develop strong supplier relationships, bringing multiple parties together to collaboratively solve complex business problems

• Translates business requirements into a strategic category plan

• Uses critical thinking to make informed strategic decision

• Customer networking and influencing skills to ensure agreement and adoption

• Regular interaction with external suppliers and representing bp externally

• Effective organizational change

• Persevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change
  

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

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, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, 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.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

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 a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Building sustainability, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Cost modelling, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Market Analysis, Negotiation planning and preparation, Sourcing strategy, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Selection, Sustainability awareness and action, Value creation and management

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.