Advisor - energy system modelling and analysis

Job Description

Entity: Strategy, Sustainability & Ventures Job Family Group: Business Support Group Job Summary: Grade GResponsible for managing a team to support the delivery of a wide range of business activities, supporting the development and delivery of the relevant strategy, plans and performance, advancing the agenda by working closely with the Functions, providing businessoversight and operational assurance, and ensuring that standards, policies and procedures are fit for purpose and working effectively. You will join bp’s Energy Transition and Systems Analysis (ETSA) team, working with us to monitor and analyse the global energy system as it transitions towards Net Zero. That will include a key role helping us produce and publish bp’s highly respectedEnergy Outlook. More broadly, you will help us to continue developing our understanding of the energy transition, including deepening our understanding of the key blockers and enablers to the transition towards Net Zero. And you will play a key role liaisingbetween ETSA and our stakeholders around and outside bp, helping us to communicate our insights and meet the needs of our stakeholders.You will work very closely with the other teams within Economics and Energy Insights (EEI), who specialise in the different component parts (fuels or sectors) of the energy system. The teams of EEI come together to produce the Outlook, with ETSA co-ordinatingthat process.Your accountabilitiesYou will help us produce bp’s Energy Outlook. That will include:

• helping to maintain and develop our global energy model;
• working with other team members to analyse different pathways for the energy system, and to undertake scenario analysis around those pathways;
• liaising closely with our digital and communications teams to produce the Outlook, including developing and improving further our digital Outlook product;
• communicating the key messages of the Outlook and our other work to colleagues within bp and to external stakeholders

In addition to your contribution to the Energy Outlook, you will:

• oversee and co-ordinate our work monitoring the current state of the energy transition, including tracking the various factors that enable or slow the transition;
• monitor other organisations’ analysis and their equivalent Energy Outlooks, comparing their findings and projections with ours and helping us learn from others’ analysis;
• responsibility for liaison between the Energy Transition and Systems Analysis team and our key stakeholders around bp, and also with our external stakeholders

About youIn order to succeed in the role, we are looking for talent with the following:

• experience analysing or modelling the energy system or key component parts of it

• strong analytical and critical thinking skills, and have a degree or higher level qualification in a STEM subject or similar (eg economics)
• some coding / modelling experience – for example in R, Python, VBA, plus proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint etc, and ideally some visualisation software experience (eg Tableau, Power BI, Spotfire)
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability and enthusiasm to interact positively and proactively with our key stakeholders, internally and externally
• experience of leading projects/ project management would be advantageous

Travel Requirement Negligible 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, Collaboration, Commercial acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Integration, Managing strategic partnerships, Research and insights, Risk Management, StakeholderEngagement, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability awareness and action 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/neurocognitivefunctioning, veteran status or disability status.Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screeningsor interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, pleasecontact usto request accommodations.If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.