Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

It's an exciting time to join bp. Meeting the energy challenge requires many different approaches and solutions.

We’re gearing up for the future. At bp our goal for C&P (Customer & Products) is to deliver the future of mobility, energy and services for our customers by innovating with new business models and service platforms. C&P will become a hub, housing our midstream, lubricants, aviation, sale of chemicals, mobility and convenience, marketing and our next-generation businesses, making it a highly integrated and interconnected organisation. And with safety being our core value, our commitment to safe and reliable operations will never change.

Want to join the team? This means:

• being customer-centric, agile and responsive to changing customer needs and dynamic markets

• focusing on growth and development of customer offers

• optimising the chemicals and fuels value chains to maximise integrated value

• contributing to the reduction of carbon intensity of the products we create, and sell, by 50% by 2050 or

• sooner

• creating strategic partnerships that drive long-term value for C&P

• being digitally enabled and empowered by customer insights and data to deliver solutions.

Join our Team and advance your career as a Procurement Operations Manager in Budapest/Szeged, Hungary.

Please note Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia can be also considered as additional job location.

The Procurement Operations Manager leads an operation team or virtual team who manage vendor master data and Requisition to Receipt operations. In this role you will ensure vendor master data requests are processed accurately and promptly in compliance to the relevant policies & procedures, and requisition is processed promptly and aligns with category strategy and approved buying channels.

The Procurement Operations Manager cultivates partnerships with procurement and process excellence teams and collaborates to enhance user buying experience and drive efficient processes.

The incumbent would be potentially required to work under alternative shift arrangements to ensure appropriate overlap hours with Central European / Eastern Standard / Asia Pacific time zones.

This role is expected to evolve in line with the organisation’s procurement strategy. As opportunities for centralisation arise, the Procurement Operations Manager may take on additional procurement responsibilities, contributing to greater efficiency, consistency, and value across procurement activities.

Key Accountabilities:

Operation Delivery:

• Oversee vendor master data and requisition to receipt activities.

• Provide energizing and engaging leadership for their team or virtual team and clear direction.

• Deliver modernization & transformation activities, leading optimization of process aligned to the broader procurement and category strategic transformation agenda.

• Manage relevant KPIs, including performance and compliance metrics.

• Provide end-to-end proactive monitoring and management of transactional pipeline to ensure workload prioritization drives better user experience and on time transaction processing to suppliers.

Procurement Delivery:

• Provide advice to the business & PU procurement team on day-to-day operations.

• Unlock value and support procurement performance in line with procurement policy and category execution.

Team Integration:

• Foster a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement through their team or virtual team, and the business.

• Develop the team’s technical capabilities and nurtures accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and strong collaboration with stakeholders.

• Establish an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation.

Transformation and Change Management:

• Support implementation of transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value.

• Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation.

• Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption.

• Constantly scan for improvement opportunities and implement transformative solution that solve the problems.

Essential Experience & Job Requirements:

• Degree educated (Finance or Procurement fields would be preferred) or equivalent relevant professional
  experience. Post graduate qualification related to procurement would be highly beneficial.

• Knowledge of procurement process and general accounting practices. Relevant previous experience in a similar operational role.

• Knowledge of ERP and S2P suite.

• An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through procurement process in ERP/S2P suite.

• Leadership experience, ideally in a procurement operation organization.

• Ability to partner with the business to develop innovative solutions, clearing blockers and enabling delivery.

• Strong relationship building skills in order to lead the team or virtual team, while engaging with senior stakeholders.

At bp in Hungary, 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

• Hybrid working arrangement aligned with team arrangements and business needs

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

• Celebrate in bp’s success. You may be eligible to join bp’s Global ShareMatch plan. This non-contractual benefit lets employees buy bp shares and receive matching shares, in line with plan rules

• 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!

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering 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.

Disclaimer: Please note that, according to Hungarian law (2012/I. 113. §), mothers or single parents caring for a child under three years of age cannot be employed in night shift positions.