The Global Process Lead (Sourcing & Contracting) is a pivotable role accountable for global process experience and excellence in their process areas.

• Manages their respective areas of the Global Process Model in line with Global Process Design Standards
• Designs, develops and delivers the procurement process strategy and process performance outcomes
• Works closely with the teams using their process to optimise the experience in line with bp standards
• Drives and supports process transformation projects that enhance our operation
• Encourages continual improvement of the technology that supports the optimum process experience
• Continually identifies innovative opportunities and drives quantifiable improvements: Always on the lookout for new ideas and ways to improve, making a measurable impact.

Process Standardization & Operational Integrity:

• Maintains and upholds the global process standards and adherence to our category management policy
• Supports, develops and maintains Global Process documentation in line with the Global Process Standards
• Assist with the deployment of process automation and understands what best-in-class looks like
• Supports standardisation, reports on compliance to process and process effectiveness, and ensures all deviations are maintained in the deviation register
• maintains the procurement service catalogue for sourcing and contracting ensuring all agreed scope changes are fully documented and updated in ARIS and other core applications

Process Analysis And CI Opportunity Identification

• Maintains dashboards that provide visibility to process performance and cost to serve
• Undertakes analysis to quantify and understand opportunities to improve process
• Works with technology and enabling solutions to understand process improvement initiatives to reduce process variation, transform processes and capabilities
• Ensures clear requirements are defined for any project, initiative or improvement
• Where not leading an initiative, support projects to enhance process experience

Process Experience

• Works closely with internal and external stakeholders and process users to understand to understand their needs, challenges and potential improvements
• Collaborate with process operational leads to evaluate and identify gaps in current processes to ensure appropriate control measures are in place and corporate control requirements are met
• Understand where there is non-standardisation, work on initiatives to drive improvements in a constructive manner

Procurement Policy

• Supports adherence to our Category Management policy which is followed by 1000+ people, across business and GBS
• GPM ensures our policies are reflected in our process documentation and associated materials.

Essential Education & Job Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related area, or related experience
• Certifications/credentials (Procurement/SCM related, Lean, Six Sigma) are preferred
• 10+ years experience and in-depth knowledge of procurement processes and technology and in particular experience of strategy to contract, key performance indicators, key roles and departments
• Operational experience in strategy to contract, business shared services outsourcing or similar
• Experience in process and project management
• Business / process analysis experience preferably with strong user interaction
• Relevant experience with continuous improvement tools and methodologies
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to communicate clearly within the organisation, internal and external
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Self motivating with strong personal time management skills and the ability to meet individual and collective program/project specific deadlines
• Maintain high standards of communication and collaboration in all situations & scenarios

Desirable Criteria

• Training and certification in Lean, Six-Sigma, Design Thinking, or similar quality management experience
• Project management experience and skills as this role may run independent projects and should know best in class project management approach
• Oil industry experience and understanding of the terminology, business functions and processes