Trading Operations Technical Lead

Job Description

Entity: Trading & Shipping Job Family Group: Supply & Trading Group Job Summary: The trading teams in bp Trading & Shipping (T&S), Refining & Products Trading Europe (RPTE) are one of three regional performance units in T&S and are primarily responsible for marketing bp’s exploration production throughout the region, sourcing crude forour refineries, trading on behalf of our associates, and supporting our refinery assets to maximise commercial performance.Operations are a vital part of T&S, and in RPTE this includes physical, paper and refinery coordination elements of operations across a large geographical region and deals with a wide variety of cultures and subject areas. The Operations team comprises of TradingOperations, Voyage Operations, Cargo Assurance, Demurrage, Doc. Admin, Commercial Analysts, Inventory Analysts and Shipping Coordination. The trading operations team ensures that the entire process runs efficiently, technical expertise is provided, and valuabledata and information is collected, entered, and forwarded in a timely manner to maintain an efficient and compliant process. The team handles the logistics of a deal to BP’s best commercial advantage whilst ensuring that all contractual and group assuranceobligations are met. As member of the operations extended leadership team, the Trading Operations Team Leader is responsible for ensuring the smooth, compliant, and efficient running of their team. Leading important front office, functional and cross regional relationships.In the role, you will be empowered to:

• Build the technical and operational capability of operators, including the training of new joiners, fostering of learning, and encouraging the sharing of knowledge.
• Supporting the bench strategy in day-to-day operations, as well as providing out of hours coverage as the need arises by the individual bench.
• Supporting operators in complex operational scenarios, encouraging people to speak up, and sharing findings with the wider operations community for future learning.
• Supporting crossbench training and capability upskilling as part of the Tech Lead community.
• Ownership operational input for bench related new business activity (to include NAI’s), through regular engagement with both the front office and the functions.
• Collaborate with support functions as the need arises for operations i.e., Tax, Commodity Risk.
• Coordinating and running of weekly technical meetings including delivery of key messages to the bench.
• Root cause analysis-based incident reporting and risk management where required for operations.
• Supporting the delivery of the trading strategy through technical input to improve value.
• Working with the operations team to develop and embed our beliefs’ within the team.
• Supporting and where required lead in continuous improvement initiatives and projects across operations.
• Lead on ensuring strict Trading Operations adherence to the T&S and RPTE Risk Management Report and the associated Trading Operations Risk Register, with a keen focus on ensuring key purple risks barriers are maintained through adherence to Group, T&S andRPTE Trading Operations policies and procedures and self-verification of these barriers.
• Lead in the reporting of key ops metrics & key performance indicators through the Ops Performance Management Key Performance Indicator app to support and ensure Trading Operations are performing against our Operations Framework and specific strategic goals

About you:Essential experience for the role will include:

• Demonstrate strong operational capability, as well as expertise in oil trading operations (cargo and /or barges).
• Strong operational knowledge of risk, compliance, HSSE (health, safety, security environment) and shipping.
• Demonstrate a successful record of delivering commercial value
• Experienced people leader with strong communicate and team motivational skills.
• Strong skills in formulating and stragety implementation
• Ability to achieve operation and business goals through negotiating, influencing, systematic planning and effective management of available resources
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Confidence to positively challenge and be courageous with all collaborators.
• High attention to operational detail
• Proven track record of relationship building in front office environment and with external counter parties

Other desirable criteria:

• Having a strategic mind set as well as understanding / handling risks and implications of the business / people decisions.
• Identifying key issues in a complex situation, adapting quickly using the resources available to lead the operations team and relating collaborators through changes effectively
• Ability to identify and lead change within a team.

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: Analytical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Ancillary cost management, Commercial acumen, Commercial performance, Communication, Competitor intelligence, Continual Improvement Process, Customer service delivery excellence, Demurrage, Developing and implementingstrategy, Front Desk Operations, Influencing, Inventory Management, Listening, Marine assurance, Mentoring, Negotiating, Problem Solving, Risk Management, Shipping, Shipping/transport, Strategic, Supply chain management, Trade discipline and compliance {+6 more} 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