Senior P&C M&A Partner in Guildford, Surrey

Entity: People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group: HR Group

Would you like to play a pivotal role in providing integration and separation expertise for our highest value projects within mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and joint venture (JV) space across the different entities and regions? The transformation team provides enduring transformation capability and expertise that enables bp's evolving operating model to deliver our strategy and predictable performance.

As Senior P&C M&A Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering people-centred M&A outcomes across bp. You will design and lead complex M&A programmes that translate strategic ambition into sustainable performance, ensuring people, culture and capability are at the heart of every transaction. Working with top-tier experts, you'll manage a diverse portfolio of M&A activity, leading the P&C agenda across integrations and separations. You'll coordinate multiple workstreams, shaping plans and execution to unlock value and ensure successful outcomes in moments that matter most to the business. The role has 2 direct reports working closely with the transformation team in India and the Portfolio & Offer & Standards team.

Role Accountabilities:

• Shape and drive M&A integration and separation projects and P&C strategy.
• Under the direction of the Business and M&A Integration/Separation Lead, shape a high-quality P&C integration/separation strategy and plan across all people and organisation elements of the acquired entity, building a decision-driven critical path to ensure value is captured at the right time.
• Evaluate critical people-related issues from the business evaluation stage, due diligence report and incorporate mitigation into the integration/separation plan.
• Ensure maximum visibility of issues, people-related risks and mitigations.
• Lead the development and execution of integration/separation plan in respective projects.
• Drive overall execution of the P&C integration/separation plan across the P&C workstreams - Direct day-to-day tasks and workflow, communicate decisions to broader working team, assess overall workstream progress, coordinate dependencies, risk management and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy activities as required to facilitate the smooth integration and separation of teams, processes and systems resulting from M&A and JV decisions.
• Support culture, engagement and change efforts throughout integration/separation programs.
• Support engagement efforts to keep employees informed about M&A integration and separation progress, changes, timelines and support them through the change.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, including but not limited to P&C leadership, senior leadership across finance, legal and other relevant teams as required to ensure alignment and successful execution of M&A initiatives.
• Build transformation capability within bp.
• Be the M&A discipline owner to build capability for business and P&C community.
• Own M&A chapter of the different playbooks and tools to support our teams.

About you:

• Degree level education or masters (MBA), supplemented by professional certifications/qualification in one or many of the transformation capabilities/skills.
• Solid understanding of key M&A and JV processes, including experience navigating associated challenges, deep experience in People elements of M&A.
• Deep business strategy understanding and organisational knowledge, sound commercial acumen, leadership in inspiring change, ability to co-create with and influence key senior stakeholders, understanding how to drive culture and behavioural change.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex programs with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities and challenging deadlines and driving commercial outcomes, Problem solving & critical thinking.
• Consulting Skills - excellent communication and interpersonal skills demonstrated ability to influence a broad range of senior stakeholders/leaders both internally and externally.
• Adaptability, teamwork, EMI and strong relationship management.
• Ability to take ownership and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments.
• Possess a global perspective and understanding of bp's strategy, experience in the energy sector, M&A consultancy background.

Why join us!

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits. We offer an open and inclusive culture and a great work-life balance. Tremendous learning and development opportunities are available to craft a career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others! We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting 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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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: Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Culture and behaviour change, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Facilitation, Global Perspective, Influencing, Job Design, Leadership Assessment, Leading transformation, Long Term Planning, Managing change, Managing workforce concerns.