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. 

Join our Technology Procurement Team and advance your career as a Sourcing Manager - C&P - Marketing!

The Sourcing Manager supports various BP businesses with a range of medium-high, low complexity and strategic sourcing & contracting activities. In addition to sourcing, this role is responsible for developing supplier relationships, proactively identifying value opportunities and providing professional guidance to the broader team under their leadership.

This includes demand management, definition of sourcing strategy based on a predefined category framework, source selection, contract negotiation, and contract creation & opalization via CLM.

The role contains leadership responsibilities; the Sourcing Manager will manage a team of sourcing leads and sourcing analysts and look after key partner relations and act as point for escalation.

The ideal candidate has a strong team leadership background, extensive experience in Marketing related services and commodities, managing sourcing projects and proven knowledge of the given spend categories and marketplace, coupled with a strong commercial orientation, communication and stakeholder management skills. 

In this role You will: 

• Driving and increasing value for BP across the spend categories and activities managed 

• Ongoing tracking and reporting of value delivery (eg. savings) 

• Operational Excellence by ensuring stable, effective and customer-focused service delivery 

• Effective management of the activity triage & workflow with the Business Partners, resource allocation and backup

• Constantly achieving and delivering against the agreed Performance objectives incl. the respective Key Performance Indicators  

• Ensuring effective escalation management in line with the agreed operating model 

• Ensuring processes are embedded & adhered to consistently

• Ensuring team process and procedure documentations are maintained captured real-time

• Take an innovative approach and lead continuous process improvement initiatives Working closely with other leaders in the Procurement organization

• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with key collaborators at all levels within the organisation, customers and external service providers 

• Follow BPs Code of Conduct, taking a professional and disciplined approach to working with suppliers, to ensure transparency, consistency and fairness. Our procurement and supply chain management principles are always applied within that framework and in the context of relevant laws and regulations

• Monitoring and assuring compliance to BP Business Controls and SOX requirements 

• Ensuring all processes are aligned with relevant ISO accreditation

• Ensure activities stay in sync with all the Company's Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) policies and procedures

• The Sourcing Manager will have people management responsibilities, conduct performance appraisals and performance management

• The job holder is expected to provide coaching and professional guidance to their wider Team and proactively contribute to the development of sourcing capability and knowledge in S2C Procurement

• As leader of the team, role model effective sourcing execution via being involved and managing complex sourcing projects incl. supplier negotiations 

• Active involvement in task allocation and workload management of the team

• If delegated by the Sourcing Manager, will be point of escalation in the Team in specific categories/subcategories or regions supported

• Effectively represent the Team in the respective categories in conversations with our partners and suppliers

• Represent the Team and support junior team members in communication and engagement

• Drive and coordinate issue resolution in complex scenarios propose improvement initiatives that result long term solution

• Drive usage of effective and up-to-date procurement techniques, tools and digital technologies, AI

What You will need to be successful: 

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience is required (preferably in business studies) 

• Demonstrated experience in sourcing products and/or services

• Category specific experience (Marketing and related goods and services) 

• Proven experience in people/team-leadership, preferably in a multinational/global environment

• Experience with e-procurement, AI productivity and autonomous procurement solutions, workflow tools (Salesforce) and ERP systems, eg. Ariba is an advantage

• Broad understanding of negotiation strategies & techniques coupled with strong negotiation skills  

• Excellent written & oral communication skill in English

• Highly motivated and ambitious to drive value and Business partnering

• Strong business attitude and commercial skill

• Strong and proven stakeholder relationship management skills in engaging senior management  

• Passion to motivate, develop and retain people 

• Transformational mentality and ability to inspire change 

• Good time management, prioritisation and organisation skills 

• Demonstrated process thinking and experience with a strong focus on continuous improvement