Job Title & Location
Procurement Innovation Advisor
United Kingdom, Sunbury
Job Type & Details
Full time
Job code: RQ105238
Experience level: Senior
Travel required: Up to 10% travel expected Conforms to retail policy.
Job Description
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.
About The Role
The Procurement Manager / Senior Advisor provides category leadership for key sub‑categories of spend in support of their global category. They undertake category management and global supplier relationship management, driving end‑to‑end spend management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve value delivery, including sustainability, within their category. Through collaboration across procurement and beyond, they develop innovative strategies aligned with business objectives, ensuring efficient, compliant, competitive procurement outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as the procurement partner for Business Consulting and other Professional Services categories.
* Define and implement category strategies aligned with organisational goals such as cost optimisation, sustainability, and risk management. Analyse spend patterns, market trends and supplier landscapes to identify opportunities for value creation.
* Handle strategic and core suppliers, ensuring performance through Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Oversee supplier risk assessments and compliance with contractual obligations.
* Own end‑to‑end contract activities, including negotiation, amendments, dispute resolution and closure. Ensure operationalisation of contracts in ERP systems and maintain audit trails for compliance.
* Apply category management policies and frameworks to ensure conformance with organisational standards. Monitor adherence to procurement governance and risk mitigation processes.
* Act as a link between procurement, finance and business units to align category strategies with organisational objectives. Influence partners and lead change management initiatives.
* Track savings against category plans and report progress using dashboards and analytics tools. Capture lessons learned and continuously improve sourcing strategies.
Essential Experience
Functional knowledge: Category management principles and experience in procurement processes and strategy development. Understanding of how strategies flow into execution across businesses and assets.
Business expertise: Partner management and influencing skills, deep understanding of supported businesses and regional priorities, experience in a complex multinational procurement environment, market knowledge.
Leadership: Subject Matter Expert in the relevant category who shares knowledge and delivers strategy. Experience leading international initiatives, analysing data‑driven trends, leveraging agile approaches, and promoting safety principles.
Problem solving: Analytical thinking to develop and evaluate pragmatic solutions, translating business requirements into actionable plans, embracing industry challenges and technological disruption, building strong supplier relationships, and making data‑driven decisions.
Interpersonal skills: Collaborating with category teams, engaging global participants, communicating across organisational levels, change management, and perseverance through complexity.
Nice to Have
* Experience in Professional Services, HR Services, People & Culture, or similar consulting/product areas.
* Leadership in driving a future vision for Professional Services programmes.
* Strong communication to align and secure support for strategy.
* Innovative mindset – actively seeking and embracing new challenges and change.
* Capability to gather partner strategies and translate them into business requirements.
* Value delivery – recommending opportunities for cost, revenue, carbon reduction or sustainability benefits.
* Project Management – building competitive project and programme strategies with an Agile approach.
* Leading through complexity in international, multi‑stakeholder, multi‑discipline environments.
Why Join Us
At BP, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe our team is strengthened by diversity. We offer benefits to enable your work to fit your life: flexible working options, generous paid parental leave, excellent retirement benefits, and more.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits. Contact us to request accommodation.
Legal Disclaimer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on any basis listed in the EEO statement. If you are selected, employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy, including pre‑placement screening and background checks.
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