Job Description:

The FBT procurement organization aspires to be an extraordinary, business centric Procurement organization, working to support delivery of BP business and functional strategies with efficiency, effectiveness and a great collaborator experience. FBT Procurement is shifting to be more aligned to the delivery of BP's transformation agenda and key business drivers in the short, medium and long term.

The incumbent will be responsible for handling risks and delivering value for BP's global spend on the Digital & Talent spend areas globally.

This role handles the global sourcing for the group in this space. The incumbent will do this through the creation and execution of deployment plans that call out the People, Processes and Systems that will allow for the industrialization of the service offering consistently across BP's Finance Business and Technology (FBT) with the goal of providing sourcing and contracting excellence.

The role involves working across multiple areas across Digital & talent organizations and gives the incumbent a rare insight into how BP works and multiple BP commodities and businesses.

Commercially astute with excellent communication and collaborator management skills, the candidate will be comfortable working at all levels across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Support for our key collaborators in the most effective way to drive greater value for BP.
• Drive an agile and innovative approach to supply market engagement.
• Enable speed to market for new ventures, mergers & acquisitions.
• Champion advanced and innovative sourcing processes, techniques and strategies.
• Collaborate with collaborators, suppliers and category leads to maximise value delivery and risk mitigation.
• Driving sourcing excellence through deploying standard methodologies, providing a consistent experience, utilization of strong market intelligence and running extraordinary bids that deliver significant value for the business and where applicable enables the business to buy quickly, easily & where it makes sense, independently.
• Lead negotiator on high value & complexity negotiations.
• Ensuring compliance to FBT Procurement controls and contract template structures.
• Where appropriate, management of a team of sourcing professionals, balancing workload, career development and team mentorship.
• Coach members of the team on developing negotiation strategy, innovation, lessons learnt and knowledge share, inspires changes to enhance the sourcing process.
• Ensuring alignment between the Strategic Sourcing Digital Team and Supply Strategy Digital Team.
• Ensuring a consistent and efficient process is maintained through the effective use of tools and systems.
• Reporting team effectiveness through important metrics, including value delivery to the VP of FBT Procurement S2C.
• Develop an effective strategic sourcing approach to access innovation and advantaged supply.
• Align a diverse set of collaborators' requirements.
• Work within cross segment, regional and joint venture models.

Essential Education & Experience

• An undergraduate degree (ideally in procurement or business) or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years professional experience in procurement and strategic sourcing positions required.
• Experience of working cross culturally and in an international environment.
• Ability to communicate and influence across different levels in the organisation.
• Engaging and collaborative way of working.
• Resilient and experienced in working in dynamic environment.
• Familiarity with Ariba Source to Pay and Salesforce.

Essential Job Requirements

• Product & Market Intelligence: Spots market trends early and makes accurate and relevant business insights. Identifies new market drivers and data to bring credibility and strength to new methods and value. Advises a range of audiences up to senior leadership on market issues.
• Sourcing Strategy: Prepares strategies that are specific enough to drive a course of action. Incorporates information and analysis to develop robust sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Negotiation Plan & Preparation: Develops robust negotiation strategies for fragmented or immature supply markets, or challenging situations consulting business collaborators, and other subject matter proffesionals. Identifies and creates commercial value through understanding of negotiation priorities for BP and supplier, and conditioning of supplier.
• Project Management: Leads strategic programmes to set new business directions, solutions, partnerships, policies or procedures. Holds accountability for project and program success.
• Relationship Management: Maintains and forms alliances with recognized industry professionals and authoritative decision makers.
• Supplier Selection: Leads complex competitive enquiries involving cross functional and cross business teams.
• Negotiating Skills: Uses advanced negotiation techniques. Often achieves beyond expected results with tangible extra value from suppliers. Intervenes in negotiations that have stalled to move them through to a successful result. Has the ability to adapt and choose and deploy right negotiation framework for given situation. Identifies triggers that require switching strategy.
• Contract Creation: Advises on key supplier obligations and principles for risk management and exit plans. Develops and applies innovative contracting approaches and content that optimize value and addresses evolving category challenges and opportunities.
• Contract Handover & Implementation: Ensures Contract parties understand their roles, responsibilities and accountabilities. Sets the framework for internal and supplier governance for long term contract success and value delivery, ensuring linkage to the supplier relationship management process as appropriate.
• Eye For Business: Demonstrates a strong market orientation and strategic perspective. Make business decisions that balance value as well as cost, improving financial leverage where appropriate. Communicates' procurement performance in a way that shows the business impact.
• Influencing Skills: Seen internally as a true 'value driver' ensuring organisation is at forefront of opportunities to improve.
• Digital Fluency: Uses digital technologies to develop new ideas, projects and opportunities. Takes the lead in embedding digital communication and collaboration into own team's way of working.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting 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! These benefits can include flexible working options, paid parental leave policy among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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:
Agility core practices, Agility tools, Contract Creation, Contract handover and implementation, Contract Management, Digital Fluency, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership Assessment, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Sourcing strategy, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Selection, Thought Leadership

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