Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Shipping Group

Job Description:

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package to name a few..

Role Overview:

The Senior Commercial Shipping Optimization Manager is a strategic leader responsible for driving commercial optimization across the global shipping fleet. This role bridges commercial strategy and operational execution, ensuring efficiency, profitability, and sustainability. You will lead initiatives to improve vessel performance, optimize voyage and fuel costs, and handle claims efficiently, while championing digitalization and process simplification for better clarity and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the commercial optimization strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Optimize voyages end-to-end, including route planning, fuel management, and cost control.
• Ensure timely and robust claims management to improve cost recovery.
• Monitor voyage performance, establish performance indicators, and benchmark against industry standards.
• Drive innovation through pilot projects, digital tools, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with emissions optimization teams to meet sustainability targets and regulatory compliance.
• Oversee fuel procurement strategies and supplier relationships for cost and quality optimization.
• Build and lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team, encouraging collaboration and growth.
• Partner with technical, digital, and commercial teams for unified delivery of objectives.
• Engage with external collaborators to stay ahead of industry trends and standard methodologies adopted.

Essential Experience:

• Validated leadership in commercial shipping with global fleet optimization experience.
• Expertise in voyage planning, fuel management, cost control, and claims processes.
• Strong understanding of critical performance metrics, benchmarking, and continuous improvement practices.
• Background as a sea-going mariner or recent commercial shipping experience (voyage operations or chartering).

Desirable Experience:

• Strong skills to navigate constructively the stakeholders internally & externally.
• Knowledge of compliance, risk management, and governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with vessel performance technologies and digital optimization platforms.

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.

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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

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:

Analytical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Ancillary cost management, Bunker buyer, Chartering, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Customer service delivery excellence, Demurrage, Developing and implementing strategy, Listening, Marine assurance, Marine Operations, Marine systems and processes, Marine technical, Market Knowledge, Mentoring, Negotiating value, Operational Excellence, Partner relationship management, Problem Solving, Sentiment and Trends, Shipping/transport, Trading and scheduling operations {+ 4 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.