P&C Senior Partner

Job Description

Responsible for supporting employees and line managers within our Gas & Power Trading Americas business, defining and delivering the people plan that enables the business to achieve its goals, with engaged, high-performing teams. Provides people & culture (P&C) support for a broad spectrum of activities based on advanced experience in this field and skilled judgement, ensuring consistent and effective delivery of P&C initiatives and projects in line with local legislation, BP policy and best practice.

The role holder acts as a strategic business partner providing business driven insights to support decision making and determine appropriate global / business wide interventions. They also act as coach to specific client teams, and a champion for team effectiveness, values & behaviours and leadership expectations.

• Deliver reliable, compliant, and secure HR operations in support of the business
• Ensure health, safety & duty of care for our people
• Provide analytics and insights to make robust people and business decisions
• Provide business facing HR consultation and advice to senior leadership and may facilitate resolution of everyday queries and coaching to drive engagement, pre-empting employee relations (ER) cases, and ensuring that inclusion is a foundation of the P&C people plan and supported throughout all people management activity.
• Develops a deep understanding of the business and the people they support
• Partners closely with other P&C advisors and Centers of Expertise to agree and define product outcomes, and activity prioritization, employee development, performance management, coaching, etc.
• Uses standard processes and identifies efficiencies and opportunities for alliances by connecting across P&C teams
• Ensures personal and team compliance with the function's safety and ethics rules and processes, follows procedures, and provides an exemplary display of bp's Values & Behaviors.

• Create & sustain an effective organization to support delivery of business strategy, and focuses on driving and delivering organizational change initiatives as appropriate
• Support the Talent Acquisition team and hiring managers as needed to attract, select and retain the right people from the internal and external market, demonstrating our compelling employer brand
• Support the development of a strategic talent plan for the business, working in partnership with the talent team to ensure it is aligned to business strategy and taking into account the external environment
• Drives talent management initiatives, enabling people to build the capabilities our business values

• Enable a compliant and high-performance culture through aligned performance management, reward and recognition frameworks, managing the delivery of integrated solutions to the business and overseeing the ongoing and annual reward processes for respective client groups.
• Drive engagement with our people from their very first interaction with bp.

• Partnering with the business & coaching for success
• Supporting the talent management processes & employee relations as needed
• Willingness to challenge established practices and offer new solutions if needed
• Delivering through bp values and behaviours & bp leadership expectations
• Great communication skills and the ability to influence key senior stakeholders

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Human Resources, or other relevant field.

Experience in Human Resources, proven capability and experience in strategic talent management, ER, change management, and organisational development. Strong leadership capability and a role-model of best practices in building capability, coaching and driving high performance. Track record of effective strategic partnering and executive level coaching, with demonstrated ability to apply business insight and clearly link value to business results. Experience with organizational change and working in a matrixed organization and working knowledge of local labor legislation and regulations.

• Experience working with agile methodologies (scrum, kanban, design thinking, etc.)
• Professional certification(s) in Human Resources.
• MBA or Master's degree relevant for Human Resources

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering 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!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to…