Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

As a leading global energy company, we provide heat, light and mobility to customers worldwide. Across the bp landscape, we’re home to a range of brands across many areas of our industry. We’re investing in today’s energy system and helping build out tomorrow’s. So while we’re still in oil and gas, over the next decade we’ll become a different kind of energy company. We’re decarbonizing and diversifying our business, fundamentally transforming what we do so we can reach net zero by 2050 or sooner. We also have a strong mission to help the whole world reach net zero too – working across our industry to improve people’s lives.

It's an exciting time to join bp. Meeting the energy challenge requires many different approaches and solutions. And as part of finance business & technology (FBT), you’ll be fully connected into the world of bp. You’ll play an increasingly important part within a network of like-minded colleagues on strategic projects that stretch across the globe. And it starts with you. There’s a world of opportunities to build new skills, challenge yourself and grow a long-term career at FBT Malaysia. And no matter where you work, your role will have meaning, purpose and impact. So if you want to be part of a caring, supportive environment where you can realize your full potential, we’re with you.

Join our Finance team and advance your career as a Sourcing Lead – Well Services & Subsurface.

Job Description:

The Sourcing Lead will align with BP’s Code of Conduct, as well as all HSSE requirements, including continual support of HSSE objectives within the business, and taking a professional and disciplined approach to working with suppliers.

Key Accountabilities

The Sourcing Lead will be responsible for medium to high-risk sourcing and contracting activities, but not limited to the following:

Category Strategy

• Coordinate on demand planning with the regions to support the vision and objectives of bp Finance Procurement and ensure the activities are aligned with Business Facing and Supply Facing Teams.

• Align with the Business Facing and Supply Facing needs, ensuring security of supply, risk management, cost competitiveness, enhanced value, and the optimization of supply base.

• Support/create and manage Category Strategies. Support development of Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Global Agreements (GAs) and other model contracts.

End-to-End Sourcing projects as per business request, inclusive of the following activities:

Case Management

• Receive, implement and continuously manage incoming Sourcing project requests via the Case Management tool.

• Validate requests, scopes of work and liaise with collaborators to ensure all business requirements are considered/met.

Sourcing Strategy

• Gather and analyze market intelligence data on a regular basis relative to categories and regions, to accurately gauge and evaluate market and industry conditions applied to determine the sourcing strategy decision.

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies based on request, market conditions, scopes of work, etc. and manage the approval process.

• Develop the AtM (approach to market) based on the approved Sourcing Strategy and manage the approval process.

• Ensure relevant due diligence processes are implemented, and appropriate approvals are documented. Additionally, ensure regulatory/ partner approvals are obtained and stored in the right repository according to applicable regional requirements.

Deliver value to internal collaborators, partnering to manage all Sourcing & Contracting activities in compliance with Category Management Policy (CMP) and Category Management common process (CMcp), working closely with Supply and Business Facing teams.

Supplier Prequalification

• Screen suppliers as per the related guidelines.

• Monitor/manage continuous supplier prequalification status, and action per the related guidelines.

Event Management

• Validate requests, scopes of work and liaise with collaborators to ensure all business requirements are considered/met.

• Support/manage the supplier process.

• Build and manage sourcing projects & events (RFI/RFP) in the Ariba OneSource and Ariba Spend Management system.

• Manage supplier relationship throughout a sourcing project/task lifespan.

• Develop and obtain approvals for award recommendation documentation.

Contracting

• Validate requests, scopes of work and liaise with all collaborators to ensure all business requirements are considered/met.

• Evaluate proposals/outputs.

• Determine the appropriate contract template and develop the contract content based on the information contained in the Sourcing Strategy, sourcing event and/or detailed scope of work specifications.

• Negotiate relevant contract terms with suppliers, within the defined parameters of legal and category guidance.

• Raise any contract term exceptions per the deviation process and manage the approval process.

• Manage the contract execution/signature process per the applicable DofA (Delegation of Authority) and POA (Power of Attorney) requirements for each BP entity.

Supplier Management

• Support/establish and implement the supplier management plan. Ensure effective supplier performance management in support of Business and Supply Facing Performance Review Managements (PRMs) and Supplier Business Reviews (SBRs) respectively.

• Segments the supply base for a category using appropriate analysis tools. Use a variety of performance management processes, tools and methods to achieve agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Manage supplier performance aligned with the supplier relationship/ management plans.

Additional accountabilities specific to this role:

• Accountable for third party spend for the category in area of accountability.

• Single point of accountability for the category with all relevant internal collaborators.

• Work closely with technical line colleagues with accountable for developing the Contracting & Procurement Plan (CPP), and post-award Supplier Management (SM) for suppliers at Business Facing level, if required.

• Assess and mitigate supply chain risk through engagement with relevant collaborators ensuring business risks are managed effectively.

• Ensure compliance with the CMcp and BP policy / process together with regional contractual / regulatory obligations for local content and cost recovery

• Support execution of compliance activities including audit resolution and close-out assigned actions arising from Regional External Audits.

• Collaborate with the Market Intelligence team to develop and maintain market intelligence of supply markets for BP’s global demand.

• Manage assigned gap closure plan actions to OMS 2.5, 6.6 and 6.7. To follow all BP’s policies and procedures - Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) policies and procedures Collaborate with the Market Intelligence team to develop and maintain market intelligence of supply markets for BP’s global demand.

• Ensure timely execution and delivery of sourcing activities.

• Support “contract fitness” activities to enable post-award purchasing and P2P applications.

• Conduct and maintain supplier Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD) validity and refresh activities as required.

Qualification and essential experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience or equivalent experiences in any subject area or related field.

• Preferably with professional certification in Supply Chain (e.g. CIPS)

• Minimum eight (8) years of practical and application in End to End sourcing and contracting of services and commodities, coupled with a strong commercial competence and communication (oral and written English language) skills.

• Proven knowledge and relevant minimum three (3) experiences in Oil and Gas categories such as:

• 1. Production: Wells and Subsurface (Drilling, Completion, Intervention, Reservoir Development & Technology, Seismic, Survey, Geoscience, etc.); Rig Support Services, Integrity Management, Life-cycle Engineering Services and Subsea;

• 2. Operation: HSSE, MRO, Reliability & Maintenance;

• 3. Logistics: fuel, inbound logistics, marine, warehousing & shore base management

• Track record of successful Supply Chain delivery in international environment and Joint
  Ventures

• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with internal and external collaborators across multiple fields, cultures, and geographies.

• Ability to operate independently and methodically including process adherence, research and analysis of systems and information

• Solid understanding of navigating the supply market and supplier selection.

• Strong knowledge of contract creation, negotiations and contract drafting skills

• Excellent influencing, negotiation, problem solving skills

• Proven track record of value delivery

• Highly motivated to own and further develop sourcing/category knowledge

• Strong proactive and innovative approach

• Ability to read, understand and act with given information (reading comprehension skills)

• Customer orientation with confidence and ability to follow up on pending work from business partners

• Proficiency in desktop computing experience – an ability to learn PSCM applications including ARIBA, SAP and Salesforce.

• Able to work on shift (3pm to 12 am)

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path

• Life and health insurance, medical care package

• And many other benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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:

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/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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.