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As a key enabler of business delivery, our people, culture & communications team discovers, empowers and cares for resourceful people, and so can you. Together, we can build and enable emotionally connected leaders and dynamic teams to progress and communicate bp’s strategy, and build a culture of purpose, winning and care that grows the value of bp.

About the role:

The transformation team provides enduring transformation capability and expertise that enables bp’s evolving operating model to deliver our strategy and deliver predictable performance. In this role, you will help accelerate meaningful people-centred mergers and acquisitions (M&A) programmes and projects across bp - turning strategic ambition into sustainable performance. The role will support people-centric M&A initiatives that are aligned to and deliver our strategic ambitions.

In addition, you will provide integration and separation expertise for our highest value projects within the M&A and joint venture (JV) space, across different entities and regions. You will join the project working group to drive the People and Culture elements of these projects and coordinate different sub-workstreams to ensure effective integration/separation strategy, business case, plan, achievements and execution are adhered to during these critical business transactions.

What you will deliver:

Support M&A integration and separation projects and P&C strategy

• Under the direction of the Business and M&A Integration Lead, support a high-quality P&C integration strategy and plan across all people and organisation elements of the acquired entity, support to build a decision driven critical path to ensure value is captured at the right time.
• Evaluate critical people-related issues from the business evaluation stage, due diligence report and incorporate mitigation into the plan.
• Ensure maximum visibility of issues, people-related risks and mitigations.

Support the development and execution of our integration and separation projects

• Support overall execution of the P&C integration/separation plan across the P&C workstreams.
• Direct day-to-day tasks and workflow, communicate decisions to the broader working team, monitor overall workstream progress, coordinate dependencies, risk management and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy activities to facilitate the smooth integration and separation of teams, processes and systems resulting from M&A and JV decisions.

Support culture, engagement and change efforts throughout our programmes

• Support engagement efforts to keep employees informed about our progress, changes, timelines and support them through the change.
• Collaborate with key partners, including P&C leadership, senior leadership across finance, legal and other relevant teams, to ensure alignment and successful execution of M&A initiatives.

Support building transformation capability within bp

• Support the M&A discipline owner to build capability for our business and P&C community.
• Own certain M&A chapters of the different playbooks and tools to support our teams.

What you will need to be successful:

• With rich and proven experience within M&A, you will likely come from a consultancy or in-house background, specialising in people-based programmes.
• You will have a global perspective and understanding of strategy, preferably with experience in the energy sector.
• You have strong understanding of key M&A and JV processes, including experience navigating associated challenges, and deep experience in the People elements of M&A.
• You demonstrate the ability to support complex programs with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and challenging deadlines, while driving clear commercial outcomes.
• You bring strong problem-solving, critical thinking and commercial acumen, leveraging lean, Six Sigma and systems thinking.
• You bring consulting skills with excellent communication and interpersonal capability, demonstrating the ability to influence a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and senior leaders. You show adaptability, collaboration, emotional intelligence and strong relationship management.
• You take ownership and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments.

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.

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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.

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