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Position Overview:

About us
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world.
In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, motivated by best-in-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

About the role
bp Trading and Shipping (T&S) Global Oil is the pre-eminent oil supply and trading business in the international oil markets, providing both the bp Group and external clients with supply, trading and price risk management services for crude oil, oil products and emissions. Organised into Global Commodity books, T&S Global Oil has supply-trading teams in three regional hubs – Chicago, London and Singapore. T&S RPT-A is the trading face of BP in the Americas markets. The scope, scale and diversity in the Americas have resulted in T&S establishing regional offices on both continents. The priority is to support BP Group assets and to participate where the BP Group has a limited presence but where the supply-trading opportunities could be material. A major proportion of T&S RPT-A business comprises third party and entrepreneurial activities. The ability to grow, refresh and renew both BP Group and third-party business activity is critical.
The Global Distillates trading bench (GDIST) trades from 3 main global locations; Singapore, London and Chicago. The bench is market facing for commodities from the middle of the barrel, including but not limited to gas-oil, jet, fuel oils and the biofuels that are blended or drop in along the middle distillate value chain such as biodiesel (FAME), hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and their feedstocks. The GDIST team is accountable for:

• Interfacing with our bp equity assets, monetizing production from bp refineries
• Entrepreneurial physical trading of lightends products globally
• Entrepreneurially trading the paper markets associated with middle distillate commodities

The GDIST team has been tasked by the Group to support its ambition to build standalone bioprocessing capacity. As such the requirement is to access >3mmtpa of bio feedstocks, the support of which will be of primary concern to this role.

The RPT-A sustainability manager role in GDIST reports into the GDIST senior originator and is accountable for supporting the bench on all middle distillate biofuel and circular economy regulatory developments, working closely in partnership with the GDIST sustainability manager based in London. The RPT-A sustainability manager is a newly created role to build the bench capability in monetising biofuel and circular economy opportunities created from sustainability regulations, in light of the step-change in Group requirement for bio feedstocks. The successful candidate will support both existing biofuels transactions as well as looking at future project opportunities.

As the successful candidate acquires the necessary technical expertise in understanding, interpreting, and reporting on the regulatory requirements, the role will have the opportunity to grow interactions with a variety of internal and external collaborators, including various sustainability associations and authorities.
The role will be based in Chicago with regular travel expected within the region as well as occasional trips to other regions when conditions allow

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Key accountabilities

• Take lead role in executing and continuously improving the bp sustainability compliance programme in RPT-A, including certification under various schemes, procedures, processes, systems, GHG tools, training and communications
• Support surveillance audits, working with the trading operations teams to ensure all sustainability management requirements are kept timely and with the appropriate control process
• Collaborate with the central Regulatory Affairs team in communicating with CARB/EPA/etc and to get support when applying for pathways/ISCC certs as needed
• Identify new market opportunities, advising analytics/traders on reg changes or competitor activity, and being the bench point person on reg advocacy discussions
• Provide cross bench support to the biofuels trading teams with daily regulatory queries, focusing on GHG optimisation
• Proactively identify and communicate possible risks faced by the business, proactively putting steps in place to effectively mitigate them in coordination with Global biofuel sustainability manager
• Provide support to T&S low carbon growth agenda, including implementation of certified supply chains in the region
• Develop intelligence and expertise around advanced/development feedstocks and biofuels legislation

Essential Education:

• Degree in engineering, finance or a commercial field.
• Educational profile is less important than behaviours and a track history of high relationship management and performance

Essential experience and job requirements:
The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive commercial and leadership skills. Experience and knowledge of trading and/or supply business and operations in energy value chains.
• Background on certification/auditing programmes, in particular ISCC system and similar would be highly beneficial
• Experience guiding deals through pathway processes with regulatory bodies such as CARB, DEQ, EPA, etc.
• Strong track record of delivering projects and/or working to deadlines; Willing to speak-up and be able to lead and influence a broad range of collaborators both internally and externally
• Strong background in Commercial/Operations or Finance & Risk subject area, with breadth of experience
• Must be a great teammate able to operate within a complex and dynamic trading business, possessing the interpersonal and decision-making skills, coupled with sound commercial judgement to build credible relationships across T&S and 3rd parties
• Self-motivated and highly drive
• Understanding of BP’s reputational risks, the intent of BP’s Code of Conduct, and compliance commitments demonstrated by a track record of supporting actions.

Desirable criteria and qualifications
The successful candidate will also be expected to demonstrate the following:

• Commercially astute and innovative
• Performance bias, with an ability to overcome obstacles and inspire change. Strategically aware, with an ability to translate strategies into actions and the timely delivery of business results
• Experience with life-cycle greenhouse gas analysis
• Strong influencing skills, with an ability to build consensus and engagement across teams, functions and geographies
• Strong customer relationship building and management skills. Able to build relationships in a short period of time with new external parties

Why join bp

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Entity

Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group

Communications & External Affairs Group

Relocation available

Negotiable

Travel required

Yes – up to 25%

Country

United States of America

About BP

TRADING & SHIPPING

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world.

In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy trader.

Join us and help us achieve these goals by:

• developing and continuously evolving a globally diversified portfolio that accesses new markets, commodities and commercial opportunities
• collaborating with our business groups to provide innovative commercial and marine solutions that add value to bp’s assets and flows
• delivering high-quality earnings and creating an organisation that is swift to identify and optimise market insights
• navigating a new era of energy for our planet, by sea
• acting with respect and integrity at all times, with the people we work with and the markets we operate in
• maintaining a comprehensive, rigorous and holistic risk control framework that ensures we operate in a safe, compliant and efficient way at all times
• empowering the deep expertise and leadership of our people

Experience Level

Senior