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.
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 encouraging 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.

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

Manage relationships with the regional business partners and suppliers.
Ensure provision of timely supply market knowledge to regional customers, relaying impact of current and future events and their potential consequences.
Represent procurement at all required leadership meetings, to ensure shortage/lengthening of supply markets and effects on available feedstock is understood and managed in production planning.
Establish effective procurement governance and clearly accountable decision making.
Be working with business partners to identify potential opportunities to deliver cost and other benefits.
Work with supply chain colleagues to understand raw material requirements and constraints.
Act as Single Point of Accountability for procurement of 3P toll manufacture capacity and Purchased Finished Goods for the country (circa $100m). This involves supplier performance management, contract review and negotiating terms and conditions, ensuring that all internal customers are aligned with the sourcing strategies, developing a longer-term strategy for the categories and country team in partnership with GSC, category managers, GLT and marketing/sales.
Develop a high-level understanding of key commodity/currency markets and how they affect raw material sectors and markets.
Lead the regional procurement team, establishing and communicating the vision and strategic direction, providing business context, mentoring and direction to enable team members to meet their performance targets.
Set regional procurement team goals and objectives, define critical metrics and manage and develop the team to high performance.
A key member of the regional GSC leadership team and act as first point for the collaborators, resolving issues appropriately.
Be responsible for the development, performance management and career mentorship of all direct reports and lead all aspects of talent management across the regional procurement team