Grade FResponsible for managing a large team to deliver procurement, programme and stakeholder management support in line with business priorities for the hub or at site, coordinating development of demand forecasts, enabling value delivery cross-category and ensuring compliance, in order to meet the Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements for procurement operations.Entity:
Finance

Job Family Group:
Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

Sitting in the Europe Middle East and Africa Major Projects Procurement Team, this is a dynamic role working on the Clair Expansion Project, one of bp's next major capex developments in the North Sea (NS).

A key role in the NS organisation with evolving scope in response to business growth and priority. The team is at the forefront of supply chain engagement, leveraging progressive solutions to solve real business challenges in pursuit of the growing energy demand and positioning bp to competitively deliver on this major project commitment.

Supporting the Project from Optimise through to execute and Operate, you will also require engagement with the NS Partners and ensuring thorough documentation is in place to support cost recovery.

This role will oversee the strategy execution of the Clair Expansion Project from the point of handover from the Global Concept Development Team. With significant Capex spend (>£bns), you will be accountable for the award and subsequent management of EPC Contracts for Clair Expansion from FEED through to EPC Contracts working with the wider project delivery team to ensure value is created and preserved under the license awards. The development is currently expected to include a major subsea scope, jacket, topsides and bridge linked platform.

What you will deliver:

- Lead, coach and develop the Project Contracting and Procurement team

- Integrate with Category teams facilitating a close collaborative working relationship among the Contract Accountable Managers (CAM), Procurement and the broader bp team.

- Responsible to ensure effective contract management and delivery of the Project and associated contracts.

- Integrate effectively and collaboratively with the Projects and Regional organisation to support safe, competitive and predictable project delivery

- Deliver deep technical expertise coupled with an understanding of the supply chain market and engage the supply chain effectively.

- Excellent contracting, procurement, negotiation and dispute resolution.

- Develop and implement innovative and strategic contracting and partnership models including long term alliances with suppliers.

- Post award contract management for complex EPC contracts

- Assure compliance with ABC/AML, export controls, trade sanctions and other relevant policies

- Ensure there is a robust demand plan by aggregating Project activity and opportunities across the NS region, including data integrity of such plan in the Procurement systems.

What you will bring:

- Degree or equivalent experience in Business administration, Procurement & Supply Chain, Law or other relevant subject area

- Demonstrable expertise and experience in major projects execution including contracting strategy development, finding opportunities and value levers that enable effective execution and delivery.
- Skilled at leading through complexity, completing projects in multi-stakeholder, multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments, with regional and country-specific issues and challenges.
- Strong influential leadership and integration skills to work with projects and engage senior business leaders and JV partners to deliver pragmatic value driven decisions.

- A self starter and forward looking senior leader who can anticipate challenges, problem solve, lead through ambiguity and support the business to deliver 'best for bp' solutions.
- Excellent FEED and EPC Contract drafting and proficient knowledge and use of the key terms and conditions within the contract. Able to deeply understand the potential execute risks and assess appropriate risk allocation. Contracting experience, drafting, letter writing, working closely with Legal and other subject areas to protect value for bp.
- Deep experience of contract Management and performance activities of FEED / EPC Contracts including change management, change/variation negotiation and dispute resolution.

- Deep knowledge of current project management, contracting and procurement processes including new and emerging digital tools.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the team, Contractors and Projects leadership.
- Experience of and ability to design different risk / reward commercial and contracting models.
- Ideally, a Professional Contracts, Procurement and Supply Chain qualification (MCIPS, CPM, CPSM) or equivalent

- Ideally, experience working with Decommissioning Projects

Who you will work with:

The NS Projects leadership team, Project General Managers and Contractor representatives. The Clair Expansion contractors are yet to be selected but it is expected to require regular travel.

You will also work closely with a cross-discipline team such as Project Controls, Legal, Commercial and others to support the Project portfolio, ensure compliance and support predictable delivery.

The role may also be required to interact regularly with Partners / JVs and other external parties. In addition, you will need to build strong rapport with representatives of the key performing contractor organisations.

Why join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

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 crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. Please contact us to request accommodations.

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Travel Requirement
Up to 50% travel should be 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:
Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Building sustainability, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Commercial Acumen, Commercial acumen (Inactive), 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

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