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As part of the Global Operation & Excellence team, you will report to the Global Procurement Process Excellence and Insights Manager. You will work closely with the Global Base Oil team & local Procurement Hubs in Hungary, US, India, China & Malaysia/ Australia.
Accountable for the development and implementation of optimised Base Oil sourcing strategy working with IST Asset Economy Team
Develop and maintain working relationships with business partners and ensure the base oil strategy supports the business strategy and vice versa
Implement optimised strategic sourcing processes to meet the base oil strategy and business objectives
Be responsible for the collation and analysis of supplier data and to use this to optimise use of lubricants assets across base oil, trading, and sourcing
Engage with suppliers communicating BP’s expectations of them and developing improvement programmes
Undertake procurement and IST activity in accordance with corporate policies and processes, defined governance, and delegations of authority
Review and improve contract coverage and quality with key suppliers.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to development of base oil strategy, plans and priorities, finding opportunities to leverage value or mitigate market risks
Understand the importance of the category’s evolving position on the procurement chessboard and how this impacts on the strategies implemented
Gain a clear understanding of lubricants base oil strategy using IST capabilities to optimise base oil sourcing
Responsible for challenging the base oil sourcing strategy and developing an improvement plan to create more value from IST capabilities
Track levels of risk and provide management information on risk assessments and feedback via agreed risk reporting mechanism
Profile sourcing group to understand the supply base and analyse and categorise suppliers using appropriate tools
Generate the supplier portfolio by reviewing the potential supply base and establishing a consistent supplier selection process acceptable to all partners
Identify and evaluate potential sourcing strategies; run risk analysis; document sourcing strategies
Ensure all category sourcing arrangements are fully compliant to all corporate social, environmental and financial risk and HSSE, and that requirements such as authority to commit and FSA regulations are fully implemented
Liaise and learn from BIC improvements and by cross referral with other managers to improve the category performance of the team
Assist in developing and promoting standard procurement processes (in collaboration with the Procurement Transformation Manager) and ensure their use within the team
Support engagement with business partners majoring on key IST teams
Ensure provision of timely supply market knowledge to the Business, relaying current and future impactful events and their potential consequences. Understand criticality of supply issues and at times of long or short supply, feed into the LBM process in all regions the intelligence to allow planning decisions
Support provision of timely supply market knowledge to the Business, relaying current and future impactful events and their potential consequences
Work collaboratively with the wider GSC and IST shipping to ensure no Base Oil stock outs at the plants occur
Support supplier management, including ongoing contract management and control, collation of performance data (through coordinating supplier performance data collection and analysis), and plan and complete supplier meetings
Identify, select, and lead key suppliers for continuous improvement through rigorous cost and value analysis.
Essential Education, Experience and Job Requirements
University degree and equivalent work experience, in an appropriate technical and commercial subject area.
Direct raw material category experience in global businesses. Advanced sourcing methodologies and tools.
Global sourcing category strategy development and implementation, dealing with global and regional supply basis, track record of multi-year business value delivery aligned to business and sourcing strategies. E-optimisation, AT Kearney Chessboard and experience of working within a global procurement matrix organisation desirable.
Why join us?
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life! These benefits can include flexible working options, paid parental leave policy among others!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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