Europe & Africa Customers Procurement Manager

Job Description

Entity: Finance Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Summary: The Europe & Africa Customers Procurement Advisor plays a meaningful role in realising bp Procurement’s aspiration to deliver a world-class service to Customers & Products (C&P) business. This role acts as the business interface to business stakeholders inthe C&P business. They are accountable for ensuring business stakeholders’ satisfaction with Procurement’s service and its outcomes across the end-to-end procurement lifecycle.This role supports the Senior Manager(s) in partnering with the business to understand business priorities and objectives, and acts as a champion for business needs within a Procurement context. As well as meeting business requirements, this role is wired intothe business, helping to craft and drive the business agenda, identifying impactful opportunities for Procurement to deliver value to the business and positioning these opportunities for the Supply Facing Category and Sourcing & Contracting (S2C) Categoryteams to further develop or improve.Working with Supply Facing (SF) Category and S2C teams, the Customers Procurement Advisor supports the develop of a detailed demand forecast including priorities and implements a jointly agreed activity plan, identifying business resources to support implementationas required.The responsibilities also include regional coordination for a particular category and business area (starting with Midstream business for EMEA & Logistics category) and strategic regional projects that go across several categories.• All the above will be performed through an accurate risk management process and applying all HSSE/Operating Management Systems requirements. FinanceJoin 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.

Key AccountabilitiesStakeholder-Management:

• Proactively building mutually effective working relationships with and engaging in dialogue with a wide range of internal and external partners for ideas and feedback
• Leading procurement interface on a day-to-day basis with senior business partners, supporting the Senior Manager in leading business management review meetings and representing Procurement at appropriate level planning meetings
• Support the management of the operational relationship with S2C, feeding both Procurement and business inputs into operational performance reviews and activity planning
• Takes a leadership role in effective communication between the business interface, category management, and S2C organisations. Ensuring that business requirements and insight are understood and communicated within Procurement, and that strategies and plansare communicated to the business.

Planning & Delivery:

• Provide business, supplier and demand insight to the SF category and GBS teams
• Support the development of a demand plan, understanding business objectives, priorities and requirements
• Support performance reporting against annual targets to business partners including finance
• Connect business partners with appropriate category expertise, translating category strategies for business partners as required
• Work with business to ensure appropriate business support and resource for implementation of Procurement plans or processes
• Actively contribute to the achievement of the value delivery target, through the completion of activities agreed with the Senior Manager and category teams
• Ensure purchasing channel and process compliance to category strategies and completed contracts, intervening as necessary to ensure maximum compliance with BP processes and category strategies in line with compliance plan
• Represents bp for C&P suppliers / contractors and ensure that performance requirements are understood and fulfilled. Ensure contract set-up and handover from S2C, contract implementation in local markets, including changes, disputes and claims; break-inand requisitioner support and performance of high impact expediting in accordance with procurement workload and business demand
• Support to innovation and to the introduction of changes considering internal and external market challenges.

Supplier Management:

• Support the Senior Manager in leading agreed elements of supplier management to support category teams including issue resolution from both suppliers and business
• Represents bp for the country suppliers / contractors and ensures that performance requirements are understood and fulfilled
• Implementation of processes and approaches to sustainably improve the performance level of suppliers.

HSSE, Ethics & Compliance, Risk & Contract Management:

Assurance of the integrity of all purchasing measures regarding policies, processes, tools and standards of BP

Assurance of the HSSE and OMS requirements for employees as well as suppliers

Observation of the bp Code of Conduct including a suitable monitoring of the supplier portfolio; role model and mentor for employees in the practical implementation of flawless ethical behaviour Observation of legal provisions (Corruption and Due Diligence (CDD)), HSSE and BP guidelines regarding safety, quality, fina