Senior Sourcing Manager - Wells

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• Travel required: Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role.
• Job category: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group.
• Relocation available: This role is not eligible for relocation.

Job summary

Entity: Finance

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description: You will be responsible for handling risks and delivering value for BP’s global spend on the Projects spend areas globally. You will lead the global sourcing for the group in this space through the creation and execution of deployment plans that call out the People, Processes and Systems that will allow for the industrialization of the service offering consistently across BP’s Finance Business and Technology (FBT) with the goal of providing sourcing and contracting excellence. You will work across multiple areas across P&O organizations and gain insight into how BP works and multiple BP commodities and businesses.

Job Responsibilities

• Support our key partners in the most effective way to drive greater value for BP.
• Drive an agile and innovative approach to supply market engagement and enable speed to market.
• Champion advanced and innovative sourcing processes, techniques and strategies.
• Collaborate with partners, suppliers, and category leads to maximize value delivery and risk mitigation.
• Drive sourcing excellence through deploying standard methodologies, providing a consistent experience, utilizing strong market intelligence, and running extraordinary bids that deliver significant value for the business.
• Lead negotiator on high value & complexity negotiations.
• Ensure compliance to FBT S2C Procurement controls and contract template structures.
• Manage a team of sourcing guides, balancing workload, career development, and team mentorship.
• Coach team members on developing negotiation strategy, innovation, lessons learned, and knowledge share.
• Ensure alignment with category and business teams.
• Maintain a consistent and efficient process through effective use of tools and systems.
• Report team effectiveness through key metrics, including value delivery to the Head of Sourcing.

Essential Education, Experience and Job Requirements

• An degree (ideally in procurement or business) or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 15 years professional experience in operations management, procurement, and strategic sourcing positions required.
• Sourcing Strategy: Prepares strategies that are specific enough to drive a course of action aligned with business objectives.
• Negotiation Plan & Preparation: Develops robust negotiation strategies for fragmented or immature supply markets, consulting business partners and other subject matter experts.
• Project Management: Leads strategic programs to set new business directions, solutions, partnerships, policies, or procedures.
• Relationship Management: Maintains and forms alliances with recognized industry guides and authoritative decision makers.
• Supplier Selection: Leads complex competitive inquiries involving cross-functional and cross-business teams.
• Negotiating: Uses advanced negotiation techniques to achieve beyond expected results with tangible extra value from suppliers.
• Eye For Business: Demonstrates a strong market orientation and strategic perspective.
• Influencing: Seen internally as a true ‘value driver’ ensuring the organization is at the forefront of opportunities to improve.
• Analytical Thinking: Applies analytical techniques to solve complex problems.
• Decision Making: Analyzes conflicting input from a broad range of internal and external partners.

Why join us?

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 fostering 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, paid parental leave policy 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:

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.

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. If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.