Trading Operator

at  BP

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Trading Operator is integral to the success of the Trading & Shipping organization. Trading & Shipping is an integrator to deliver bp’s strategy of resilient hydrocarbons and low carbon energy. The Trading Operator coordinates the safe, efficient, and reliable execution of the physical movements into and out of supply chain networks supporting our equity production, refineries, customer networks, and trading business. The role requires the ability to troubleshoot problems and have a commercial mindset to optimize decisions that improve profitability or lower costs. The Trading Operator must deliver safety and compliance requirements, meet product quality for the deal or regulations, and communicate effectively across internal and external parties. Our Trading Operators have a bias for action as well as a focus on efficiency and automation.
The Trading Operator plays a vital role in moving product between suppliers, refineries, terminals, and customers across all modes of transportation including pipelines, rail, truck, intra terminal movements, barges, and vessels. The successful candidate will work on a specific operations bench but will be expected to develop broad operations skills to be deployed across multiple roles in the team for leave coverage and business needs. This includes learning multiple modes of transportation, commodities, and supply chains.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Deliver the safe and compliant movement of physical hydrocarbons via various modes of transportation.
Apply commercial acumen to find opportunities to optimize value and reduce costs
Execute profitability objectives of Traders and Business Units by identifying and implementing commercial opportunities. Communicate positions and blending provisions effectively to critical internal partners.
Demonstrate a strong bias for action. Use good judgment to pragmatically apply best practice and standards.
Proactively troubleshoot complex issues and operational / logistical constraints. Foresee potential issues and engage others as necessary in resolution. Deeply understand the activity you cover.
Build and maintain relationships with external personnel. Utilize these relationships to help execute strategy. Work with numerous external personnel including counterparts, inspection personnel, terminal personnel, barge operators and others ensuring execution of strategy and continuous improvement to BP’s Operations.
Maintain accurate data in the system of record.
Understand your role and provide attention to detail.
Represent operations in support of new business activity.
Willingness to learn multiple modes of transportation and commodities to support the team.
Proactively identify/drive areas of continuous improvement to enhance efficiency through automation.
Provide training and mentorship to less experienced operators
Tackle special projects when needed.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

Minimum 3 years of prior working experience in energy industry, supply chain, or crude/products scheduling experience
Strong analytical and problem solving skills leading to effective decision making
Ability to manage conflicting priorities and deliver results within the required time constraints.
Strong communication and relationship management skills

SKILLS:

Ancillary cost management, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Competitor intelligence, Customer service delivery excellence, Demurrage, Developing and implementing strategy, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Inventory Management, Listening, Marine assurance, Mentoring, Negotiating, Shipping/transport, Supply chain management, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading and scheduling operations, Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Trends, Trading knowledge, Troubleshooting, Voyage operations

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