Entity: Supply, Trading & Shipping
Job Family Group: Supply & Trading Group
Job Description: About the roleThe Trading Operator is integral to the success of the Trading & Shipping organization. Trading & Shipping is an integrator to deliver BP's strategy of resilient hydrocarbons and low carbon energy. The Trading Operator coordinates the safe, efficient, and reliable execution of the physical movements into and out of supply chain networks supporting our refineries, branded customer network, and trading business. The role requires the ability to troubleshoot problems and have a commercial mindset to optimize decisions that improve profitability or lower costs. The Trading Operator must deliver safety and compliance requirements, meet product quality for the deal or regulations, and communicate effectively across internal and external parties.
The Trading Operator plays a vital role in moving product between suppliers, refineries, terminals, and customers across all modes of transportation including pipelines, rail, truck, intra terminal movements, barges, and vessels. The successful candidate will work on a specific operations bench but will be expected to develop broad operations skills to be deployed across multiple roles in the team for leave coverage and business needs. This includes learning multiple modes of transportation, commodities, and supply chains.
Key Responsibilities- Manage the safe and compliant movement of products or feedstocks via various modes of transportation.
- Be flexible and willing to learn multiple modes of transportation and commodities to support the team.
- Troubleshoot problems including timing, quality, supply, delivery, weather. Deeply understand your supply chain.
- Maintain a commercial mindset to find opportunities to optimize profits or lower costs.
- Develop strong relationships with internal and external team members.
- Maintain accurate data in the system of record. Understand your role and provide attention to detail.
- Work closely with back office and front office teams to ensure financial accuracy.
- Identify process efficiencies and support the implementation of change.
- Create a positive environment across operations by sharing ideas and best practices with a One Team approach.
Essential education, experience and requirements- Mid-Level experience of prior oil/gas industry, supply chain, bulk shipping and/or operations experience or any product scheduling experience
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills leading to effective decision making
- Ability to successfully prioritize and complete tasks in fast paced environment
- Ability to manage across multiple interfaces and stakeholders
- Strong bias for action as well as a focus on efficiency and automation
- Ability to be on call as needed due to 24/7 operations
- Legally authorized to work in the USA
Desirable Criteria- Ability to build and maintain relationships
- Managing time and pressure in a dynamic environment
- Ability to make a quick decision, sometimes without all the facts
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to proactively manage day to day issues
- Ability to foresee potential problems and engaging others as necessary in resolution
- Commercial acumen aptitude
How much do we pay (Base)? $107,100.00 - 198,900.00 USD Annually- Note that the pay listed for this position is genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.
This position is eligible for US Benefits - Core. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 - 240 hours of vacation per year for full time employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays.
You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at Core U.S. Benefits . Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks' paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child.
We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee.
As part of bp's wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Core U.S. Benefits.
Travel RequirementNegligible travel should be 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, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Inventory Management, Listening, Marine assurance, Mentoring, Negotiating, Shipping/transport, Supply chain management, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading and scheduling operations, Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Trends, Trading knowledge, Troubleshooting, Voyage operations
