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Sustainability - Discipline Advisor
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Entity: Technology Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group
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.
Job description
The Discipline Advisor - Sustainability plays a crucial role in embedding sustainability considerations into sourcing decisions and supplier relationships. The role supports implementation of due diligence process within Procurement to handle risk and maintain compliance. This individual is responsible for analysing data to provide understanding of the effectiveness of due diligence processes, and for driving improvements in data quality and in process. The role requires meticulous attention to detail and an ability to communicate outcomes in a way that is important and impactful.
Key activities
- Play a role in delivering sustainable sourcing and due diligence programmes and translating sustainability commitments and compliance requirements into practical, scalable actions within global supply chains
- Support innovation in programme design to maximise impact and scalability.
- Assess third party digital systems to resolve suitability in supporting sustainability due diligence
- Support embedding sustainability into business processes by working cross functionally with Procurement, HSE, businesses and legal and by agreeing and documenting arrangements.
- See opportunities to improve data collection and sharing and use data and insights to inform decision making, prioritisation and risk management
- Participate in supplier engagement and capability building
- Conduct labour rights due diligence desk-top assessments of suppliers within the company's supply chain and recording and communicating outcomes and work with data systems to record, track and share progress
- Engage externally with suppliers, industry forums and peers, to represent bp, develop partnerships and monitor guidelines in LRMS due diligence
- Supply to internal and external sustainability reporting and performance monitoring
- Define future sustainability data reporting parameters to feed into wider Finance Procurement PowerBI reporting and engaging with partners to project handle design and delivery
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in sustainability, supply chain, or a related subject area
- Experience in sustainability, responsible sourcing or global supply chains
- Strong analytical capability, including experience leading data, assessments and reporting
- Knowledge of applying sustainability principles within supply chain contexts
- Familiarity with sustainability standards, certifications and human rights frameworks
- Experience supporting ESG disclosures
- Analytical thinking skills with the ability to interpret data and identify trends with rigor
- Critical thinking and structured evaluation to conduct comparative analysis of digital solutions
- Communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Systems literacy (e.g. Excel, PowerBI)
Please note that roles based out of SJS or Sunbury will move to Timber Square, Southwark, from Q4 2027.
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.
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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, Analytical Thinking, Building sustainability, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Commercial Acumen, 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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