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Cargo Assurance Team Leader
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Entity: Supply, Trading & Shipping
Job Family Group: Supply & Trading Group
Job Description:
The trading teams in ST&S RPTE are one of three regional Performance Units in ST&S and are primarily responsible for marketing BP’s Exploration production throughout the region, sourcing crude for our refineries, trading on behalf of our associates, and for supporting our refinery assets in order to maximize commercial performance. Operations are a vital part of Supply and Trading. In RPTE this covers physical, paper, and refinery coordination elements of operations across a large geographical region and deals with a wide variety of cultures and fields.
The Operations team comprises sub-teams namely Trading Operations, TC Fleet Operations, Cargo Assurance, Original document management, Commercial Analysts, Inventory Analysts, and Shipping Coordination. Operations have a key role to play in ensuring that the front to back process runs smoothly, technical expertise is provided, and that valuable data and information is collected, verified, and distributed in a timely manner, in order to provide full support to others dependent on such information in order to maintain an efficient and compliant process. The team handles the logistics of a deal to BP’s best commercial advantage while ensuring that all contractual and Group assurance obligations are met.
As a member of the Operations Extended Leadership team, the Cargo Assurance Team Leader is responsible for leading a team of specialists who protect and enhance the interests of ST&S from an end-to-end value chain Quality and Quantity perspective. The team also provides technical advisory services to a wide variety of internal partners, helping to support the development and evolution of the business while also ensuring adherence and conformance to compliance and safety standards.
Key accountabilities
- Provide people leadership by leading through our values, with a focus on energising the team, creating an inclusive and diverse workplace culture, maximising value, and instilling a one-team ethos.
- Work alongside Technical Leads and peers in other regions to build enduring capability across the wider operations team, fostering learning and encouraging the sharing of knowledge.
- Work to develop and embed BP Leadership Expectations and Values and Behaviours within the team.
- Work closely with bench leadership and origination teams to advise upon and deliver portfolio strategies.
- Support the delivery of the day-to-day activity by ensuring coverage of activity in the field as required across Europe and Africa.
- Budget management for the team and ensuring recoveries where necessary.
- Partner with the PQ Senior Manager to establish and facilitate effective and insightful governance forums.
- Partner with the PQ Senior Manager, maintain an external focus, and develop relationships with key industry associations, using influence to help shape policy and the development of standards.
- Overall accountability for the delivery of the team’s activity set, using data and insight to inform effective decision-making and prioritisation.
- Support and where required lead in continuous improvement initiatives and projects across wider operations.
- Develop and lead the supplier contracting and oversight framework, ensuring services are cost-effective and drive broader value generation for ST&S.
- Lead and deliver end-to-end Q&Q event reporting, using experience to educate and inform the wider operations team of emerging themes.
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Essential Education
- Degree or equivalent experience educated or equivalent qualifications/experience.
- Experience in a leadership role with validated skill in excellent cross-team communication and collaboration.
- Track record of safety leadership in an operational team leader role.
- Consistent record of project delivery and track record of driving transformation.
- Experience in delivering change, setting budgets, and performance management.
Essential experience and job requirements
- Demonstrable experience and skill in energy trading operations.
- Solid understanding of risk, compliance, HSSE, and Shipping requirements.
- Consistent track record of delivering commercial value.
- Strong leadership and communication skills including the ability to motivate a team.
- Strong team player.
- Strong negotiation skills (formulating and implementing strategy).
- Ability to achieve operation and business goals through influencing, systematic planning, and effective management of available resources.
- Attention to operational detail.
- Ability to find innovative solutions to problems.
- Consistent record of relationship building in a front office environment and with external counterparts.
- Solid understanding of cargo specifications, testing methods, and transport modes.
- Knowledge and understanding of industry guidelines/standards as it relates to loss control and product quality specifications.
Desirable criteria & qualifications
- Degree or equivalent experience educated or equivalent qualifications/experience in the chemistry field.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and motivate change and simplification within a team.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and support the delivery of commercial value.
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Why join us?
At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. 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, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, 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
Up to 25% 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:
- Ancillary cost management
- Commercial Acumen
- Communication
- Competitor intelligence
- Customer service delivery excellence
- Demurrage
- Developing and implementing strategy
- Influencing
- Inventory Management
- Listening
- Marine assurance
- Mentoring
- Negotiating
- Problem Solving
- Sentiment and Trends
- Shipping/transport
- Supply chain management
- Trade discipline and compliance
- Trading and scheduling operations
- Trading Fundamentals
- Trading knowledge
- Troubleshooting
- Voyage operations
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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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 contact us.
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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