Entity:
Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:
Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:
About the role

Responsible for supporting the efficient, reliable and safe execution of the regional supply plan, using basic analytical capabilities to coordinate the effective scheduling of physical movements into and out of supply networks and making efficiency trade-offs.

Natural Gas Schedulers play an integral role in our operational capability at bp. A successful candidate will thrive in our challenging, diverse, and fast paced culture. Because we play and believe in one team: we cultivate an environment where we trust one another, embrace feedback, challenge our norms and expect sustained high performance.

This position is on the Natural Gas Operations team within Trading & Shipping's Gas and Power Trading Americas (GPTA) and will be located in our Houston office.

bp offers a hybrid working environment, allowing employees to work remotely on Friday and in the office Monday through Thursday and offers additional pay for coverage on the weekends and U.S. holidays.

Key Responsibilities

• Make required natural gas nominations to various North American pipelines, using the appropriate computer systems
• Assure flow of equity and third-party production
• Manage and track imbalances on pipelines
• Communicate market intelligence to trading teams
• Identify and support efficiencies and improvements with operational processes
• Monthly balancing in OpenLink Endur
• Maintain excellent working relationships with pipelines, customers and internal parties
• Work with finance, risk and accounting to ensure accuracy in a timely fashion
• Participation in rotational weekend nomination coverage
• Understand pipeline/customer behavior and extract key insights that impact nomination and transactional decisions
• Function as a strategic partner to enabling teams, prioritize opportunities and provide actionable recommendations
• Work across multiple scheduling teams to drive automation, standardization and integration

Essential Education, experience and requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience preferred
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Initiative-taking and independent problem solver
• Skilled in interacting and influencing across a wide range of professional teams
• Ability to multi-task and manage high pressure situations in a dynamic environment with critical time deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent analytical, computational, and critical thinking skills including proficiency in Excel
• Manages product supply and demand balances for the defined region, delivering reliable supply and mitigating supply disruptions.
• Executes overall supply chain processes, trading and asset strategies, leading initiatives from definition to execution and identifying efficiencies.
• Ensures supply reliability incidents are resolved, implementing actions for continuous improvements and opportunities to minimize costs throughout the supply chain.
• Complies with bp's Code of Conduct and models bp's Values & Behaviors.

Desired qualifications

• Ability to work in a team-first setting
• High resiliency in stressful situations
• Unique backgrounds to introduce novel thinking and approaches

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:
Ancillary cost management, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Competitor intelligence, Customer service delivery excellence, Demurrage, Developing and implementing strategy, Influencing, Inventory Management, Listening, Marine assurance, Mentoring, Negotiating, Problem Solving, Sentiment and Trends, Shipping/transport, Supply chain management, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading and scheduling operations, Trading Fundamentals, Trading knowledge, Troubleshooting, Voyage operations