Category Senior Manager – Category Management Office

Description

Job category

Procurement & Supply Chain Management

Experience level

Senior

Relocation available

This role is not eligible for relocation

Job type

Professionals

Travel required

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Job code

RQ101278

As a leading global energy company, we provide heat, light and mobility to customers worldwide. Across the bp landscape, we’re home to a range of brands across many areas of our industry. We’re investing in today’s energy system and helping build out tomorrow’s.

So, while we’re still in oil and gas, over the next decade we’ll become a different kind of energy company. We’re decarbonizing and diversifying our business, fundamentally transforming what we do so we can reach net zero by 2050 or sooner. We also have a strong mission to help the whole world reach net zero too – working across our industry to improve people’s lives.

It's an exciting time to join bp. Meeting the energy challenge requires many different approaches and solutions. And as part of finance business & technology (FBT), you’ll be fully connected into the world of bp.

You’ll play an increasingly important part within a network of like-minded colleagues partnering on strategic projects that stretch across the globe. And it starts with you. There’s a world of opportunities to build new skills, challenge yourself and grow a long-term career at FBT Malaysia.

And no matter where you work, your role will have meaning, purpose and impact. So, if you want to be part of a caring, supportive environment where you can realize your full potential, we’re with you.

Join our Procurement team and advance your career as a Category Senior Manager – Category Delivery Office.

The FBT procurement organisation aspires to be a world-class, business centric Procurement organization, working to support delivery of BP business and functional strategies with efficiency, effectiveness and a great stakeholder experience. FBT Procurement is changing to be more aligned to the delivery of BP’s transformation agenda and key business drivers in the short, medium and long term.

In this role You will:

- Support for our key stakeholders in the most effective way to drive greater value for BP

- Drive an agile and innovative approach to supply market engagement Enable speed to market for the Digital & Talent categories

- Champion advanced and innovative category processes, techniques and strategies

- Collaborate with stakeholders, suppliers, sourcing and category leads to maximise value delivery and risk mitigation

- Driving category excellence through deploying standard methodologies, providing a consistent experience, utilization of strong market intelligence and category expertise that delivers significant value for the business and where applicable enables the business to buy quickly, easily & where it makes sense, independently

- Effectively lead the Supplier Management, Category Strategy Support, Category Intelligence and Category Enablement teams.

- Ensuring compliance to FBT Procurement controls and contract template structures

- Where appropriate, management of a team of category delivery experts, balancing workload, career development and team mentorship

- Coach members of the team on developing category strategy, innovation, lessons learnt and knowledge share, inspires changes to enhance the procurement process

- Ensuring alignment with category, sourcing and business teams.

- Ensuring a consistent and efficient process is maintained through the effective use of tools and systems

- Reporting team effectiveness through key metrics, including value delivery to the Senior Sourcing Manager – Digital, Talent & FBT Category

Essential Education

- An undergraduate degree (ideally in procurement or business) or equivalent experience.

- Minimum 10 years professional experience in procurement and strategic category/sourcing positions required

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

Category delivery in Digital & Talant Categories:

- Delivers category performance globally that meet or exceeds relevant metrics, including those for safety and compliance.

- Demonstrated ability to use strategic and analytical thinking to solve sophisticated situations.

- Commercial Savvy

- Delivers global, regional or local needs whilst also aligning to category plans

- Consolidates demand plans for the business, working with their wider category team to ensure category plans are aligned. Understands the relevant commercial landscape and market factors.

- Undertakes supplier performance management or interventions, calling out to the relevant business partners, as needed, to ensure timely resolution an