Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

Join us as a Leadership Development Senior Advisor and help shape the future of capability at bp! In this high‑impact role, you’ll deliver skills and development programmes that support our business and talent priorities.

You’ll analyse strategic skills gaps across our retail management teams, design targeted programmes to close those gaps, and ensure we have the right skills for today—and for what’s ahead. You’ll also play a key role in building meaningful career pathways through effective development offerings.

Working closely with leaders across Retail and PC&C, you’ll influence, collaborate, and drive initiatives that elevate performance and prepare our people for the future.

If you’re passionate about developing talent and building a skilled, future‑ready workforce, this role offers the energy, impact, and opportunity to make it happen.

Overview

Retail Learning and Development is part of the Global Retail People and Culture team partnering with Mobility and Convenience. This role is responsible for development and execution of skills management strategies, interventions, and programmes that align with bp’s business and talent goals for Retail teams across ANZ.

Role accountabilities

• Understands the strategic workforce and skill development context for their area of responsibility and how this connects to common priorities across bp to ensure solutions deliver maximum value

• Ensures external management hires receive training, so they have the necessary knowledge, skills and capability to perform their role safely and compliantly

• Manages standardized and consistent internal development programmes to enable future succession planning

• Provides Management Development solutions and tools for line managers to support the performance and capability of our management teams

• Contributes to the creation of the prioritized skills required for their area of responsibility, including detailed needs analysis

• Builds strong working relationships to ensure solutions developed and executed meet needs by creating an effective atmosphere for collaboration between subject matter experts, customers, and the learning offer and design team.

• Enables access to solutions by marketing learning and community building. Advocates for LMS to drive adoption, usage and business impact

• Uses data, insights and feedback to recommend changes to ensure performance outcomes are achieved and solutions are refined to increase impact and efficiency.

• Analyse learning data metrics and share with local stakeholders to identify opportunities for learning offer improvement and engagement

• Collaborate with BTC teams / content designers and other learning advisers to deliver alignment across markets/business on manager training programmes

• Manage any other specific trainees/ learning programs e.g. apprenticeships

Required qualifications

• Formal education: Degree or equivalent desirable, learning and Development certification / qualification also desirable

• Understanding of retail operations

• Deep understanding and experience of applying learning and development in a similar business

• Proven ability to deliver balanced solutions, combining business-specific expertise and retail operational knowledge with a strong understanding of people development.

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

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path

• Life and health insurance, medical care package

• And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!

Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Culture and behaviour change, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Employee and labour relations, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Facilitation, Global Perspective, Influencing, Job Design, Leadership Assessment, Leading transformation, Managing change, Managing workforce concerns, Microsoft Excel {+ 12 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.