BP Hiring for Talent Acquisition Procurement Advisor Job at Houston, TX Full Time

Job Profile Summary

Responsible for acting as a dedicated category resource, providing specialist support for category strategy development using advanced category management knowledge, and conducting day-to-day procurement execution activities in order to meet the Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements for procurement operations.

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This role sits within the Digital and Talent Procurement organisation, as part of the broader Finance Procurement sub-entity. Our purpose is to connect Digital and Talent stakeholders and suppliers in service of bp’s purpose & aims, transforming supply to deliver triple bottom line value. The role is accountable for owning the “Talent Acquisition” supply categories (Contingent Labour) globally and for ensuring that this supply chain accelerates our safety, efficiency and engagement of a changing workforce in support of the energy transition whilst aligning to the group’s cost framework. The successful candidate will indirectly direct a team of bp and contract staff to provide strategic oversight of this category including the implementation of the three-year roadmap. The transformation of this category will include digitising transactional procurement, crafting supplier alliances and embedding bp’s sustainability goals in our supply chain.

Key Accountabilities

The Talent Acquisition Procurement Advisor’s key responsibilities are as follows:

• Develop innovative approaches that manage the end-to-end lifecycle of Contingent Workforce. Understands and influences underlying cost drivers, supply market dynamics and key sources of risk
• Drives execution of the category strategy to deliver against Digital and Talent’s performance framework, namely value delivery, revenue generation and net zero ambition.
• Digital channel management, namely establishing clear and effective digital channels to operate the categories. The role includes ownership of existing channels to deliver self-service, choice and compliance, as well as growing digitisation through new channels.
• Drives our net zero ambition and sustainability goals through embedding human rights, carbon reduction, circularity and waste to landfill at the centre of category strategies.
• Partners with Talent Acquisition stakeholders to engage and understand the business priorities on a 1-3-5 year horizon.

Key Skills

• Understanding of Contingent Workforce solutions and how to operationalize, including supply market(s), regulatory boundaries and talent classifications.
• Strategic and creative thinking- ability to develop a strategic approach to category management that leverages the latest thinking and marketplace dynamics.
• Deep Commercial acumen that understands multiple business factors and how they interact to generate and improve sustained value for the business.
• Value Delivery – ability to ensure value is identified, crafted and realised through suppliers and bp working collaboratively.
• Influencing – Strong and effective communication to ensure alignment and support for strategy development and project execution across all programmes.
• Innovation – Actively seeks and embraces new challenges, change or innovations in line with business strategy; open to new or unfamiliar experiences and is constantly curious.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Entity

Finance

Job Family Group

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Relocation available

No

Travel required

No

Time Type

Full time

Country

United Kingdom, United States of America

About BP

FINANCE

Join us in a crucial time of transition. We are bringing all of our finance and procurement activities for the group into one place, enabling better work.

For you this means working with us on:

Compliance – efficiently delivering external reporting requirements to ensure we continue to meet our regulatory ‎obligations in all jurisdictions, supported by robust control environment across all three lines of ‎defence.‎

Stewardship – laying out a robust finance framework and providing ongoing management of the balance sheet and ‎portfolio execution, supported by effective advocacy to the market.‎

Performance – facilitating the effective allocation of capital, development of business plans and coordination of ‎business performance interventions to ensure a consistent delivery between strategic aspirations, ‎operational forecasts and delivered outcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible for value creation through mergers and acquisition-led ‎deals, commercial negotiations and integration of business opportunities.‎

Transformation – driving digital transformation (centralising, digitising, optimising) across all elements of the finance entity to ‎achieve sector-leading cost-performance.‎

Legal disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic background, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations.