Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

Role Overview

As a Line Manager, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight for BP’s global sourcing activities within the Well Services and Subsurface function across P&O businesses. You will be accountable for delivering value, handling risk, and driving perfection across sourcing and contracting processes. This role requires strong cross-functional teamwork, people leadership, and the ability to influence at senior levels across the organization. You will manage a team of Line Managers, sourcing professionals, ensuring alignment with BP’s business objectives and complete compliance to Category Management Policy (CMP) combined with local laws and regulations of respective bp operating regions. Crate high performing and psychologically safe team.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:
Provide direction and oversight for sourcing strategies within the Wells S&C function, ensuring alignment with business goals and risk management frameworks.Collaborator Engagement:
Act as a senior point of contact for key business collaborators, ensuring sourcing priorities are aligned with business needs and delivering significant value.Sourcing Excellence:
Nurture the use of a sophisticated sourcing techniques, market intelligence, and digital tools to drive innovation, speed to market, and commercial value.Negotiation Expertise:
Applies sophisticated negotiation techniques to consistently secure high-value outcomes. Resolves stalled negotiations and adapts strategies based on situational needs to improve supplier value.Governance & Compliance:
Ensure full compliance with CMP, FBT S2C procurement controls, regional governance, contract templates, and Delegation of Authority (DoA) requirements.Performance Management:
Supervise and report on team performance using key metrics, including value delivery, cycle time, and collaborator satisfaction.Change Leadership:
Own the adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working across the sourcing teams.Team Management & Development:
Lead, coach, and develop a team of sourcing professionals. Foster a high-performance culture focused on capability building, career development, and continuous improvement.Psychological Safety & Inclusion:Create and maintain a psychologically safe team environment where individuals feel respected, heard, and empowered to speak up, share ideas, and challenge constructively without fear of negative consequences.Entrepreneurial mentality:Demonstrate and instill an entrepreneurial mentality within the team—encouraging innovation, ownership, and proactive problem-solving to unlock new value opportunities.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Engineering, or related field.Minimum 15 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.5 years of sourcing, contracting and contract management experience in drilling, well services, subsurface or equivalent in hydrocarbon industry will be an advantage.Proven track record of leading high-performing, multi-cultural global teams and delivering complex sourcing strategies.Strong commercial savvy, negotiation expertise, and supplier relationship management skills.Experience working in a global, matrixed organization with cross-cultural teams.Demonstrated ability to influence senior collaborators and drive strategic outcomes.

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 demeanor of giving back to our environment are highly valuedPossibility to join our social communities and networksLearning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career pathLife and health insurance, medical care packageAnd 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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:

Agility core practices, Agility tools, Business Acumen, Contract Creation, Contract handover and implementation, Contract Management, Digital Fluency, Leading Self, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Sourcing strategy, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Selection, Value creation and management

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.