Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

This role drives the delivery of people & culture (P&C) priorities and transformation initiatives across Supply, Trading & Shipping (ST&S). Working in close collaboration with the VP P&C and relevant P&C Senior Managers and ST&S business leaders to ensure agreed transformation plans are implemented to scope, schedule, and quality. Provide day-to-day leadership on implementation, change adoption, and governance for people transformation initiatives, ensuring safe, compliant operations and measurable outcomes aligned to bp strategy.

Lead delivery of the ST&S people transformation roadmap by translating the people plan into executable initiatives to drive business strategy and performance. Provide implementation and change support to ensure sustainable adoption of new ways of working, including governance, communications and coordination, in line with local legislation, bp policy, and best practice.

• Deliver reliable, compliant, and secure P&C support, enhancing delivery of business and transformation priorities

• Lead and deliver people-related ST&S transformation initiatives (e.g., operating model, org change, workforce transitions, process redesign), ensuring clear scope, milestones, dependencies, and defined outcomes

• Apply structured change management to drive adoption (stakeholder mapping, impact assessment, communications, training, and reinforcement), and track benefits realization post-implementation

• Provide people analytics and insights to enable robust decision-making; translate data into actions that improve performance and enables project completion

• Run effective governance for ST&S people projects (RAIDs, decision logs, reporting), calling out risks and issues and aligning actions across P&C and business teams

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying root causes, standardizing approaches, and implementing sustainable solutions

• Ensure consistent application of policy, ethics, and local legal requirements to projects

• Support workforce planning and resourcing activities for relevant ST&S P&C projects by providing inputs to demand/supply planning and executing agreed actions with relevant teams (e.g., talent, recruitment)

• Enable a compliant high-performance culture by ensuring quality, timeliness, and controls

• Leverage agile and lean methodologies to increase value to end users and accelerate delivery of P&C change and improvements

• Act as a strategic P&C business partner to ST&S leaders in the projects & transformation team by building trusted relationships, proactively identifying people implications of business decisions, influencing outcomes with insight-led recommendations, and aligning solutions to business priorities while balancing risk, policy, and culture

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Degree and/or professionally qualified. Postgraduate qualification in Human Resources or a related subject.

• Significant experience gained across a range of people & culture fields within commercial and operational environments. Behavioral: o Track record of effective partnering and coaching o role-modelling of best practices in continuous improvement and driving high performance

• Demonstrable capability and experience in project management, change management, and organizational development.

• Clear experience of project implementation and execution.

• Proven experience of operating in sophisticated, geographically dispersed, and culturally diverse environments.

Desirable Experience

• Leading people/HR transformation initiatives end-to-end

• Hands-on change management experience

• Strong programme/project governance capability (RAIDs, decision logs, status reporting, dependency management, and delivery through complex, multi-country environments)

Why Join Us?

We’re committed to supporting leaders who want to make an impact. At bp, you’ll have the chance to shape and influence outcomes across businesses. You’ll be part of an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and where your contribution to performance and integration matters.

We invest in the growth and wellbeing of our people, providing the resources, networks, and development opportunities needed to thrive. Our total rewards package includes competitive pay, bonuses, share options, and a range of flexible benefits designed to meet your needs — from healthcare and retirement plans to paid time off and agile working. We recognise that people have multifaceted lives, and we strive to offer a career experience that reflects that!

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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:

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:

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