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Entity: Supply, Trading & Shipping Job Family Group: Strategic Planning & Business Development
Job Description
Role Synopsis
As part of the central Strategy & Projects team in Supply, Trading & Shipping (ST&S), this role plays a critical role in the development of strategy across ST&S, ensuring alignment across businesses and a consistent, disciplined approach to strategy development and execution.
As a Strategy Advisor, you will support the delivery of strategy projects across ST&S, working closely with business teams and integrating functions. You will contribute to the development of business and portfolio strategies, applying structured problem-solving and analytical thinking to support decision-making.
The role requires the ability to work across a range of topics — from trading bench-level analysis to business-level strategy — and to synthesise qualitative and quantitative information (including financial data) into clear and structured outputs.
Key Accountabilities
- Support the development and delivery of strategy projects across ST&S, working in partnership with business teams and ST&S leadership
- Assist in identifying and defining growth strategies and strategic priorities for the business
- Capture and analyse data from internal and external sources to support strategy development
- Develop driven analyses and contribute to clear, well-structured strategic cases
- Support testing of strategic options, including models, assumptions and scenarios
- Maintain understanding of business and driven environments to advise strategy work
- Support preparation of briefing materials, reports and presentations for senior customers
- Maintain and contribute to team tracking and reporting tools (e.g. project hopper)
- Build and manage relationships across ST&S and relevant bp entities to support alignment of strategy activity
- Ad hoc project delivery for the wider strategy and projects team as demand requires
Skills & Experience Requirements
Essential
Communication
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Able to produce impactful materials
- Able to produce concise and effective executive briefings
- Able to communicate clearly and articulately with partners at different levels
Customer management and relationships
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- Experience building strong relationships across organisational boundaries
- Ability to build trust and work collaboratively to tackle business problems
- Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to work across geographies and cultures
Analytical capability
- Strong analytical skills, with experience synthesising complex data from multiple sources into clear and consistent structures
- Comfortable working with qualitative and quantitative information, including financial data
Business and market understanding
- Understanding of business and competitive environments
- Awareness of relevant industry dynamics (energy trading experience advantageous)
- Ability to apply business context to leverage competitive advantage and support strategy development
Delivery and ways of working
- Able to work on multiple simultaneous projects
- Self-starter, able to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
Networking
- Ability to build and maintain internal and external networks
- Comfortable working across organisational boundaries to support delivery
Influence and personal impact
- Able to influence collaborators and contribute to decision-making
- Professional, credible and able to operate effectively in a complex organisation
Desirable
- Experience in strategy consulting or strategy development within an organisation
- Prior commercial experience within energy trading or related markets
- Established network of relevant internal or external partners
Why Join Us?
We’re committed to supporting individuals who want to build a career in strategy within a dynamic commercial environment. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a broad range of topics within ST&S, gaining exposure to senior customers and developing a strong understanding of trading and shipping businesses.
You’ll be part of a collaborative team, with opportunities to develop your skills, build your network and contribute to strategy that supports business performance.
At bp. We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging 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 meaningful, 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 many others benefits!
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Travel Requirement
- Negligible 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
- Agreements and negotiations
- Analytics
- Commercial Acumen
- customer and competitor understanding
- Data visualization and interpretation
- Deal structuring
- Developing and implementing strategy
- Economic evaluation methodology
- Empowering Others
- Financial Modelling
- Generating customer insights
- Inclusive Leadership
- Influencing
- Internal approval process
- Investment appraisal
- Joint Venture Structuring
- Managing strategic partnerships
- market
- Market Analysis
- Market Development
- Project and programme management
- Prospecting and pipeline management
- Sector
- Stakeholder Management
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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. This careers site is for bp contractors only. Please do not refer or share the role(s) with anyone who is not currently a contractor at bp.
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