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Procurement Category Advisor - TRM & Acquisition

hace 8 días

Sunbury-on-Thames

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Description: Job Description: 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! Role Synopsis The Advisor provides category leadership for key sub-categories of spend in support of the global Total Resource Management (TRM) strategy. As a representative of TRM they will act as primary point of contact for one of bp’s entity groups, driving end-to-end spend management analysis and opportunity identification to deliver Talent cost optimization. They do this through collaborating across and beyond procurement, including with regional, business, and FBT resources. They will know their entity intimately and support the wider procurement business in the development of innovative approaches which deliver business objectives which will ensure long-term, efficient end to end category execution. They work with business, regional and FBT resources for optimal, compliant, and competitive procurement outcomes, collaborating across and beyond procurement. Problem solvers with good commercial acumen, they create solutions to category challenges, they cultivate senior partner relationships and work with businesses to understand their evolving needs alongside developing deep insights into supply markets, including disruptors and technological advances. They bring value through orchestrating development of transformational strategies in support of bp’s strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to realize identified value and working with delivery teams to ensure that their global strategies are implemented locally. Key Accountabilities Data: • Full accountability for TRM activities in your delegated bp entity, • Primary ownership of the TRM data in your entity and ensuring that it is up to date – (e.g. replacing assumed data with actuals, addressing unclassified spend), • Developing a deep understanding of non-employee numbers and spend in your entity (e.g. who is doing what, where and for who), • Frequently checking the data sent by TRM Project Management Office (PMO) and ensuring it is accurate and in line with business understanding, • Ongoing checking and ownership of reporting on anomalies (e.g. if numbers have in/decreased dramatically, what is the driver behind this), • Understanding the story behind the data (e.g. key managed service contracts, non-billable resources), • Monitoring interventions and running them to conclusion (e.g. including planned leavers and tracking these with Vendor Management Office (VMO) team, • Creation and maintenance of a vendor dictionary to enable us to consistently report and offer guidance to the business e.g including confirming de-scoped activity and details of the main suppliers, contracts and services that are being delivered in your entity Stakeholder: • Ensuring all impacted collaborators are aware of what is being sent to their business and that there are no disconnects in the reporting line. This includes close alignment with entity SPAs/Cost Champions and ensuring that all progress is communicated through them, prior to being reported up to cSuite level, • Deep understanding of conflicting programmes and initiatives and ensuring that you help bring this understanding together for the entity, • Develop plans and activities for non-employee populations which the entity does not yet have agreed next steps and associated timelines, • Working with your business to understand and model out what their population will look like as the year progresses. Strategic workforce planning and forecasting reductions and additions for projects, • Helping VMO to understand the context of the information that is being requested by your entity and the benefits that this will bring, • Ownership of ongoing reporting into cSuite, including EVP dashboard each month. This should include tracking of natural attrition rates as well as TRM-led reductions and savings, • Sharing the vision for TRM through storytelling (e.g. 3 year roadmap, answering questions about the cost levers, ensuring that SPAs familiar with the workstreams) Transformation and Change Management: Implement transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value. Ensure supplier performance, in a dynamic business environment, and implement change across diverse stakeholder landscapes. • Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation, • Partner with internal subject area teams to drive category excellence, • Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption Team integration: Work within a team of Account Managers, embracing culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement. Acts as an SME and advocate for their category, sharing category knowledge across teams to ensure business needs are met. • Builds category knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure strategy execution, • Develops their technical capabilities in order to deliver category operational excellence, • Embraces accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and strong collaboration with both suppliers and key players., • Embraces an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Uses storytelling to connect with collaborators and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities. • Leads and influences through complexity and ambiguity, handling virtual relationships with stakeholders in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments, • Unites diverse collaborators, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges, • Builds collaborator relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to stakeholders, • Prepares documentation and relevant partner communication to enable key decision forums, • Prioritize innovation in supplier relationships and unite diverse partners, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges. Innovative Strategies & Commercial Models: Forges pioneering strategies and innovative commercial models, both in procurement methods and in category strategies. Look beyond traditional pricing structures to derive value. Market Insight & Forward-Thinking: Remain attuned to market dynamics, balancing the harmonization of legacy needs with proactive transformational strategies. Essential Education: • Degree educated or equivalent work experience - something related to contingent labour preferred, • Post graduate qualification related to procurement desirable Essential Experience and Job Requirements: Functional knowledge: Knowledge of category management principles and experience in undertaking procurement processes and developing category strategies. • An ability to quickly develop an understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and its objectives, • Knowledge of procurement within a complex multinational business, • Experience in leading initiatives internationally, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing agile/flexible approaches, • Embraces industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneers innovative solutions whilst handling risk, • Foster strong supplier relationships, bringing multiple parties together to collaboratively solve complex business problems, • Translates business requirements into a strategic category plan, • Partner networking and influencing skills to ensure consensus and adoption, • Regular interaction with external suppliers and representing bp externally, • Effective change management Digital Strategy & Transformation: Expertise in transitioning processes to digital solutions (e.g. marketplace and AI), delivering tangible benefits, while adeptly converting partner vision into strategic business initiatives that emphasize cost savings, sustainability, and revenue generation. Global Project Leadership: Demonstrated expertise in guiding projects across international landscapes, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing an Agile approach. Desirable criteria Proficiency in running strategic supplier relationships in vast multinational corporate settings. Consultancy, advisory or project experience, especially in significant/complex change programs for large organizations. Familiarity with innovative technologies and AI, in particular automation of activities traditionally performed by people. Additional Information At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you: • A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued, • Possibility to join our social communities and networks, • Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path, • Life and health insurance, medical care package, • And many other benefits. 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: Analytical Thinking, Building sustainability, Business Acumen, Business Requirements Analysis, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Commercial Acumen, Digital Fluency, Leading Self, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Product and market intelligence, Supplier Relationship Management, Sustainability awareness and action Legal Disclaimer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please ___. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

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