Procurement Digital Garage Specialist

2 months ago

Sunbury, United Kingdom bp Full time

Job summary

**Entity**:
Finance
**Job Family Group**:
Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

The bp procurement organisation seeks to use our scale and commercial approach to drive a world class cost base. We actively collaborate with the supply chain to build even greater value for the business while mitigating risk. Our focus is redefining supply, digitising operations and developing an excellent team to drive triple bottom line value across bp’s supply chains.

The specialist will play a crucial part in a team which is helping to deliver world leading procurement digital transformation. The digital garage is a new team helping bp procurement identify and pilot new and emerging technology in procurement. Today, we can’t do this quickly enough and the external market is developing fast The team partners with our category teams to identify problems and bring in market opportunities to transform how we work, reflecting the pace of change and technology disruption required to reinvent bp.

Key Accountabilities
- Be a key player in the procurement technology market; deeply understand the established procurement tech supplier landscape whilst identifying partnering opportunities with early stage startups to collaborate on bp category difficulties.- Support targeted experiments, crafting hypotheses around procurement digital solutions that may help.- Go from zero to one: Pilot and measure procurement digital technology, test hypotheses, whist validating the overall value case.- Build an external bp brand “Digital Garage", helping to showcase bp procurement as an attractive place to work, and do business with.- Support the attitude shift required to transition from traditional ways of working towards an agile way of thinkingEssential Education:

- Experience working with Ariba- Solid relevant procurement experience, gained preferably in a multinational environment- Uses a broad range of negotiation techniques and adapts style and tactics to suit the situation. Effectively manages time. Manages the climate, resolves deadlock, and understands how to handle internal customers to get win-win outcomes.- Engages partners and suppliers to collaborate and co-create appropriate and outstanding outcomes for all parties- Business Sense
- Uses understanding of the broad economics of the category area to drive recommendations. Interprets financial performance and describes how initiatives/projects contribute to the delivery of the overall strategy. Aligns work effectively with BP’s main business, strategic direction, and business prioritiesEssential Experience and Job Requirements:
Experience of one or more digital procurement tooling such as Fairmarkit, Globality, Ecovadis, Emitwise ,Cirtuo etc.

**Influencing**:Master communicator, using a range of styles and approaches to gain commitment and support from diverse internal partners to help achieve business outcomes, create acceptance for decisions, build consensus or resolve conflict. Recognizes, anticipates and effectively deals with existing or potential conflicts at an individual or team level. Communicates and influences across all parts of the organisation, bringing in different perspectives to challenge thinking and improve solutions. Brings diverse partners together to align objectives and solve business problems, intervening where required to inspire more creativity and to stretch goals further. Uses diverse experience of peers to improve thinking, always operating with a one team, one bp mindset.

**Value Creation**: Expert in building value cases. Looks for value beyond cost reduction, exploring improvements in ways of working (efficiency), innovation, sustainability and revenue generation opportunities.

**Business Acumen and Market Intelligence**:Understands procurement business operations, commercial landscapes and external market factors to recommend actions that create or protect value and connects work and personal contribution to bp’s bottom line. Demonstrates a strong market orientation and strategic perspective; acquires knowledge of bp’s demand and supply markets and demonstrates this to solve problems and/or create opportunities for bp. Identifies new market drivers and data to bring credibility and strength to new methods and value.

Desirable criteria
- Understanding of bp procurement processes, tools and systems.- Relevant professional experience and certification e.g. CIPS- Experience with deals in excess of $500k total contract size.- Experience working in an agile team, running PoC’s or pilots.**Why join us?**

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are

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