Maintenance, Turnarounds and Inspection Services Procurement Senior Advisor

**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!bp’s North Sea business has a mission to be the most competitive oil and gas business in the region by driving year on year improvements in safety, sustainability, profitability, and efficiency. We will use the cash we generate to improve our North Sea business, and at the same time, transform and help bp, our community and our planet get to net zero**.**We operate 5 material assets, and we employ >800 people. The Maintenance, Turnarounds and Inspection (MTI) Services Procurement Senior Advisor in the North Sea business is responsible for the management of MTI categories in support of the Production organization, driving the execution end-to-end category management process to handle supply chain risk and enhance value delivery.**Job Synopsis:**The Maintenance, Turnarounds and Inspection (MTI) Services Procurement Senior Advisor is responsible for the management of the portfolio of MTI activity for the North Sea business and the procurement single point of accountability for turnarounds.They undertake category management and supplier management, driving end-to-end spend management to handle supply chain risk and improve value delivery, including sustainability, within their category.They know their categories intimately and support development of innovative approaches which deliver business objectives, and strong category guidance which ensures efficient end to end category execution. They work with regional and FBT (Finance Business and Technology) team resources for efficient, compliant, and competitive procurement outcomes.Problem solvers, who build solutions to category challenges, they cultivate senior partner relationships and work with businesses to understand their evolving needs alongside deep insights into supply markets, disruptors and technological advances. They build value through orchestrating development of transformational strategies in support of bp’s strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to realize identified value and working with delivery teams to ensure that their global strategies are implemented locally.Perform demand planning, working with S&C for sourcing and leading supplier management as appropriate. They will be a key point of contact for all TAR activities, working closely with the business to ensure all procurement activities are delivered seamlessly and cost efficient.**Key Roles & Responsibilities**:* Innovative Strategies & commercial models: Forge groundbreaking strategies and innovative commercial models. Look beyond traditional pricing structures to derive value. Collaborate to develop creative strategies that address business needs and address supply chain risk and sustainability. Analyze market factors to advise strategy excellence.* Category excellence: Run end-to-end category performance by working with the organization to understand demand and ensure uninterrupted supply and strategies that can be implemented effectively across teams. Consider regional factors like laws, taxes, and market conditions in category management planning.* Transformational leadership and change management: Seamlessly lead and implement transformation initiatives, ensuring supplier performance in a dynamic business environment, and implementing change across diverse partner landscapes. Leverage digital solutions and partnerships to drive innovation in your category, improving efficiency, effectiveness and value creation. Partner with internal subject area teams to drive category excellence. Use influencing, storytelling and strong communication to encourage adoption.* Category expertise and market insights: Work within a team of category managers, embracing culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement. Act as SME and evangelist for their categories, sharing category knowledge across teams to ensure business needs are met. Remain attuned to market dynamics, balancing harmonization of legacy needs with proactive transformational strategies. Provide deep region specific and operational input into global category strategies and major contracts being negotiated by Category managers.* Strategic Engagement & Partnership: Foster agile and innovative supply market strategies, while encouraging purposeful partnerships and robust supplier relationships to navigate business challenges and unlock triple bottom line (people, profit & planet) value.* Holistic Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Communicates impactfully with partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes or decisions, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities. Prioritizes innovation in supplier relationships and unites diverse partners, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges. Prepares documentation and relevant partner communication to enable key decision forums.**Job Functional Knowledge:**Procurement and category management expertise: should have a solid understanding of category management principles, procurement processes, and strategy development.North Sea business specific knowledge and deep understanding of the MTI supply market landscape in the region is a must.**Business Expertise:**Distinctive demonstration of bp\’s core values and behaviours, “Who We Are” framework & consistently aligning actions and decisions with bp\’s overarching aims and ambitions.**Leadership:**The nature of leadership in this role is as SME in the relevant category, sharing that knowledge with the wider team and leading execution of the strategy, focusing on creating and implementing category strategies in the region and collaborating with the team to achieve goals. Provide deep region specific and operational input into major contracts being negotiated by Category team.In addition, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing Agile/flexible approaches is highly beneficial.**Problem Solving:**The role requires analytical thinking to develop and evaluate solutions, as well as judgement to translate business requirements into actionable plans. Ability to embrace industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneer innovative solutions and foster strong supplier relationships, bringing multiple parties together to collaboratively address sophisticated business problems is also required.**Nature and Area of Impact:**The Senior category delivery advisor directly impacts the financial plans of the supported organisations and overall value delivery of Finance – procurement, ensuring a safe, sustainable and competitive supply chain.**Interpersonal skills:**Strong interpersonal skills are critical for collaborating with the category team, engaging with regional, diverse partners, communicating impactfully across organizational levels and handling change effectively.**Essential Education**University degree or equivalent experience in Procurement, Business, Law, or Engineering**Essential Experience*** Strong experience in end to end Procurement and supply chain management for large infrastructure, or energy projects* Understanding of the complexities of Production & Operation business* Solid understanding of category management principles, procurement processes & systems, and contract management fundamentals, and standard processes* North Sea business specific knowledge and deep understanding of the MTI categories supply market landscape and trends is a must, with consistent record to understand and #J-18808-Ljbffr