Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

As a leading global energy company, we provide heat, light and mobility to customers worldwide. Across the bp landscape, we’re home to a range of brands across many areas of our industry. We’re investing in today’s energy system and helping build out tomorrow’s. So while we’re still in oil and gas, over the next decade we’ll become a different kind of energy company. We’re decarbonizing and diversifying our business, fundamentally transforming what we do so we can reach net zero by 2050 or sooner. We also have a strong mission to help the whole world reach net zero too – working across our industry to improve people’s lives.

We are seeking a proactive and skilled Procurement Specialist to join our team, focusing on European procurement activities. This role is crucial for optimizing our supply chain, ensuring value creation, and driving sustainable procurement practices across the region.

In this role, you will need to have strong analytical skills and maintain a detailed understanding of supplier onboarding requirements and risks. You will be responsible for managing supplier pricing in bp systems and ensuring on-time payment to suppliers across multiple categories. You will own data compilation and modeling to support the category leads in strategy development, negotiations, performance management, and operational activities. You will oversee the collation and analysis of supplier data and use this to identify and manage risks and opportunities for business advantage.

This role is a part of our European Procurement Hub team of circa 9 people, supporting the European Business. It will provide exposure to multiple direct procurement categories, various procurement systems, and support value delivery for the entire European business. The role offers an international outlook whilst being based in Budapest. This role is designed as a development pathway into supplier‑facing Procurement Specialist roles.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage new supplier onboarding, due diligence process, and supplier performance management reports.

• Input and maintain procurement category pricing/data in key systems while ensuring accuracy.

• Liaise with suppliers, Accounts Payable, sites, and Category Managers to ensure on-time payment to relevant suppliers.

• Lead front-end set-up and implementation of strategic new products/materials.

• Support procurement data compilation, cost modeling, negotiations, and operational activities as needed.

• Input and maintain details/values of strategic cost competitiveness projects across the categories in SalesForce.

• Ensure full compliance with all categories, regulatory and company’s corporate social, environmental and financial risk and HSE.

• Support supplier management, including ongoing contract management and control, collation of performance data (through overseeing supplier performance data collection and analysis), and plan and complete supplier meetings.

• Lead European Hub Compliance projects as needed.

Essential Criteria & Job Requirements:

• Degree Qualified: A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) is required.

• Supply Chain/Procurement Expertise: Proven experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, and/or Business Management.

• Demonstrated analytical and modeling skills with advanced proficiency in Excel, including functions such as VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, pivot tables, data modeling, and large‑dataset manipulation.

• Influencing and negotiation skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills combined with a collaborative working style.

• Motivated self-starter with attention to detail and excellent relationship building skills.

• Fluency in English

Desirable Criteria:

• Professional Certification in Procurement (e.g. CIPS) is desirable.

• Master’s of Business Administration.

• Fluency in multiple languages is a plus.

• Previous experience within energy/oil & gas sector and CPG would be highly advantageous.

At bp, we provide the following environment & benefits to you:

• Different bonus opportunities based on performance, wide range of cafeteria elements

• Life & health insurance, medical care package

• Flexible working schedule: home office up to 2 days / week, based on team agreement

• Opportunity to build up long term career path and develop your skills with wide range of learning options

• Family friendly workplace e.g.: Extended parental leave, Mother-baby room

• Employees’ wellbeing programs e.g.: Employee Assistance Program, Company Recognition Program

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Chill-out and collaboration spaces in our beautiful Budapest Agora and Szeged offices e.g.: Play Zones, Office massage, Sport and music equipment

bp Hungary won the Most Attractive Employer 2024 Award (SSC / BSC sector) fourth time in a row at PwC's annual employer research. Come and join us!

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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.