Trading Operator Jobs

Entity:

Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Summary:

The 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. Our Trading Operators have a bias for action as well as a focus on efficiency and automation.

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.

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Key accountabilities:

• Create a positive environment across operations by sharing ideas and best practices with a One Team approach.
• Troubleshoot problems including timing, quality, supply, delivery, weather. Deeply understand your supply chain.
• Work closely with back office and front office teams to ensure financial accuracy.
• Develop strong relationships with internal and external team members.
• Maintain a commercial mindset to find opportunities to optimize profits or lower costs.
• Manage the safe and compliant movement of products or feedstocks via various modes of transportation.
• Maintain accurate data in the system of record. Understand your role and provide attention to detail.
• Identify process efficiencies and support the implementation of change.
• Be flexible and willing to learn multiple modes of transportation and commodities to support the team.

Essential education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills leading to effective decision making
• Ability to manage across multiple interfaces and stakeholders
• Ability to successfully prioritize and complete tasks in fast paced environment
• Minimum 3 years of prior oil/gas industry, supply chain, bulk shipping and/or operations experience or any product scheduling experience
• Effective interpersonal skills

Desirable criteria:

• Managing time and pressure in a dynamic environment
• Commercial acumen aptitude
• Ability to make a quick decision, sometimes without all the facts
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Ability to proactively manage day to day issues
• Ability to foresee potential problems and engaging others as necessary in resolution
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong bias for action

You will work with:

The Operations team is comprised of a mix of individuals, backgrounds, and experiences. We have built a culture that prioritizes professional and leadership development while striving to deliver a rewarding place to work through a diverse, high caliber equitable workforce. Your key partners connected to your supply chains are slightly different for each role but generally include the trader, counterparties, logistics service providers, and inspectors as well as internal functions including safety, finance, and risk.

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 encouraging 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!

Travel Requirement

Negligible 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, Influencing, Inventory Management, Listening, Marine assurance, Mentoring, Negotiating, Problem Solving, Shipping/transport, Supply chain management, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading and scheduling operations, Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Trends, Trading knowledge, Troubleshooting, Voyage operations

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, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable 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 accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

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.