Sourcing Lead - Drilling & Completions

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Job Summary

Entity: Finance

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

The Sourcing Lead will comply with BP’s Code of Conduct, as well as all HSSE requirements, including continual support of HSSE objectives within the business, and taking a professional and disciplined approach to working with suppliers.

Key Accountabilities

• Support/handle medium to high-risk activities, including:

• Category Strategy: Align with Business Facing needs, ensuring security of supply, risk management, cost competitiveness, enhanced value, and optimization of the supply base.

• Support/Create and handle Category Strategies. Support development of MSAs, GAs, and other model contracts.

• End-to-End Sourcing projects as per business request.

Case Management:

• Receive, implement, and continuously handle incoming Sourcing project requests via the Case Management tool.

Sourcing Strategy:

• Gather and analyze market intelligence data regularly relative to categories and regions, to accurately gauge and evaluate market and industry conditions.

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies with the Supply Facing Managers as applicable.

• Develop Sourcing Strategies based on request and market conditions.

• Develop the ATM (approach to market) based on the approved Sourcing Strategy, and manage the approval process.

• Ensure relevant due diligence processes are implemented and appropriate approvals are acquired and stored in the right repository according to applicable regional requirements.

• Supplier Prequalification.

Event Management:

• Support/run the supplier selection process.

• Build and handle sourcing projects & events (RFI/RFP) in the Ariba OneSource and Ariba Spend Management system.

• Handle supplier relationship throughout a sourcing project/task lifespan.

Contracting:

• Validate requests, scopes of work, and liaise with all partners to ensure all business requirements are considered/met.

• Evaluate proposals/outputs.

• Determine the appropriate contract template and develop the contract content based on the information contained in the Sourcing Strategy, sourcing event, and/or detailed scope of work specifications.

• Negotiate relevant contract terms with suppliers, within the defined parameters of legal and category guidance.

Supplier Management:

• Support/Establish and implement the supplier management plan. Ensure effective supplier performance management in support of Business and Supply Facing PRMS and SBRs, respectively.

• Segment the supply base for a category using appropriate analysis tools. Use a variety of performance management processes, tools, and methods to achieve agreed SLAs.

Essential Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in any subject area or related field.

• The ideal candidate has a minimum of six (6) years of practical application in End to End sourcing and contracting of services and commodities, coupled with strong commercial savvy and communication (oral and written English language) skills.

• Proven knowledge and relevant minimum three (3) years of experience in Oil and Gas categories such as Production (Drilling, Completion, Intervention); Rig Support Services; Reservoir Development and Technology; Integrity Management; life cycle; engineering services and subsea; Operations (HSSE, MRO, Reliability and Maintenance, Logistics, Rotating Equipment).

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. We offer benefits that enable your work to fit with your life, including flexible working options and 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

No travel is 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:

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