1. Supply Coordinator Germany Downstream Future Leaders Program
Role Title
Supply Coordinator
Reporting to
Business Area
Fuels Europe & Southern Africa
Downstream Distinctive Capability
Commercial
Role Level
Location & expected travel
Bochum, Germany (travel : yes 25%)
BFHR contact for this role
Direct Reports? No
Role in context of Future Leaders Program
This role is part of the Future Leaders Program, which aims to attract and develop individuals external to BP with diverse experiences and leadership capability to bolster the Downstream distinctive capability leadership pipelines. The program consists of 2x24 months rotations within a distinctive capability area, and will include targeted leadership development and capability building. This role is the first of two rotations in the Commercial distinctive capability.
Role Purpose
The Supply Coordinator is responsible to manage BP’s refinery production for Ground Fuels (Gasoline, Diesel, heating oil and Jet Fuels) and Petrochemical products within Northwest Europe and optimize the supply chain commercially from the refinery fence up until BP’s marking units. In addition it is a key responsibility to deliver own decision making into BP’s matrix organization. The role is internationally connected to interfering countries and will have direct influence of >30m$ gross margin of yearly performance, marketing volumes of >1mio tonnes / annum and having an accountability of product movement worth > 1bn$ policies.
Team membership
The Supply Coordinator is a member of the Supply Coordination Team.The team has accountability for all commercial decision making around purchase, sales, swaps, terminal supply and throughput contracts for the NWE geography, on a spot basis as well as for yearly term contracts.
Specific Role Description
Insert the key responsibilities and activities to be undertaken by this incumbent:
Responsible to manage BP’s refinery production for Ground Fuels and Petrochemical products, have a direct customer relationship to oil majors and national oil companies on an international level and taking commercial decisions for execution by the operations team.
The role develops and optimize commercial cases to supply managed products from the refinery fence into its most valuable home. This includes being fully responsible for all safety-, quality- and compliance policies and working on the business development strategy for the responsible products
The incumbent negotiates contracts for the term / spot sales or purchases and concludes bargaining agreements.
Delivering own decision making into BP’s matrix organization is a key contribution to ensure a fully integrated optimization by acting as SPA for decision makers.
Leadership skills and technical competencies
(aligned to a Distinctive capability)
Leadership Expectations and behaviours
Maximizing value: Take ownership to create enduring value through identification and delivery of opportunities.
Build enduring capability: Take ownership of career and be open to and act upon feedback.
Energize people: Create trust based relationships and connections across BP, seek to always understand and listen to others to successfully influence
Lead though our values: Role model BP’s V&Bs through all actions and decisions.
Core attributes:
Achievement: Passionate about making a difference and makes things happen, results focused and resilient.
Relationships: Develops trust based relationships, vertically and horizontally for the benefit of the organization not their personal agenda.
Judgement: Ability to think broadly and deeply, manage the big picture detail to make sustainable ‘one team’ decisions.
Learning Agility: Quickly assimilates and applies new learning and quickly reaches exceptional performance in new and different situations.
Technical competencies
Fluent in German, English and ideally one additional European language).
Extensive experience in the areas of discussion and negotiation management
Commercial drive and excellent skills and evaluating and developing commercial options
Experience
/Education
Post graduate degree in Business Administration or Engineering
Essential work experience:
5+ year works experience aligned to Commercial (preferably in sales)
Aspiration to develop into a specialist future leader within this distinctive capability: