ESG Senior Advisor - Trading

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Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role

This role will join a multi-disciplined bp supply, trading & shipping HSE team and will provide Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability subject matter expertise. Appraising the risks and opportunities associated with both conventional and energy transition commodities and support the business development.

What you will deliver

• Pre-Appraisal of traditional / new trading activity and investment, highlighting potential ESG relevance and risk.
• Formal investment governance functional assurance to assess and translate/communicate residual risk for bp
• Join project teams to guide ESG Due Diligence of larger ITK deals, including significant long term commercial commitments and merger/acquisition projects.
• Post-Deal support to establish monitoring, management systems and reporting of ESG performance indicators.
• Sustainability Strategy support, integrating bp Sustainability Strategy aims into Trading’s operations
• Awareness building to enable Trading teams and Leadership to understand ESG&S factors
• Participate in Non-Operated Joint Venture Risk Assurance Workshops to support assessment of Joint Venture ESG risk exposure for bp

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in an engineering, environmental or science-based subject.
• Knowledge of energy commodities, technologies, and global energy markets (inc. biofuels, renewable power, carbon sequestration or credits/offsets, as well as conventional oil and gas)
• Awareness of environmental sustainability related processes including ecology, climate, agronomy pollution or concepts of circularity.
• Awareness of key social sustainability issues including Community Rights, Human Rights and Labor Rights standards.
• Familiarity with energy sector operations/assets (e.g., refineries, exploration, power stations, terminals, vessels), including operational HSE risk awareness and Management Systems.

Commercial/Trading Operations and ESG Investment Strategy

• Awareness of the nature of trading and commercial/business development operations as a core part of the bp Business.
• Appreciation of commodity trading mechanisms with regards to physical as well as financial trades and their purpose and value for bp.
• Understanding of bp’s reset strategy
• Awareness of external ESG principles and reporting policies (e.g., the UN-SDGs, TCFD, GRI, CDP, SASB, UN Global Compact)
• Awareness of Sustainable/Ethical Investment standards (e.g., Equator Principles, UN PRI, MSCI)

Desirable Personal Skills:

Versatile and flexible Work Ethic:

• Growth mindset and ability to constructively integrate into workstreams
• Ability to work with limited information in newly developed and/or changing strategic frameworks – ability to develop or improve processes “on the go.”
• Ability to prioritize and lead multiple dynamic deal commitments of varying complexity, time scale and significance.

Information Handling and Communication Ability:

• Ability to assess, simplify and communicate large/sophisticated concepts or numerical information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong mentorship, training, and presentation skills.

Display Integrity and Resilience:

• Ability to speak up and defend position against enquiry in one-to-one, team or leadership meeting situations - Dedication to standards of integrity.
• Strong influencing and persuasion skills - skilled in consensus-building.

Stakeholder Engagement Capability:

• Building and managing relationships – particularly with a remote network.
• Deliver through others without direct line accountability.
• Collaborative and agile inter-discipline awareness collaborating with peers from other functional assurance fields

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

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, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

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