Transportation Services Representative

Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description: About Us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

About The Role

Responsible for supporting the efficient, reliable and safe execution of the regional supply plan, using basic analytical capabilities to coordinate the effective scheduling of physical movements into and out of supply networks and making efficiency trade-offs.

Transportation Services Representatives play an integral role in our operational capability at bp. A successful candidate will thrive in our challenging, diverse, and fast paced culture. Because we play and believe in one team: we cultivate an environment where we trust one another, embrace feedback, challenge our norms and expect sustained high performance.

This position is on the Natural Gas Operations team within Trading & Shipping's Gas and Power Trading Americas (GPTA) and will be located in our Houston office.

bp offers a hybrid working environment, allowing employees to work remotely Monday and Friday and in the office Tuesday through Thursday and offers additional pay for coverage on the weekends and U.S. holidays.

Key Accountabilities

- Make required natural gas nominations to various North American pipelines, using the appropriate computer systems

- Assure flow of equity and third-party production

- Manage and track imbalances on pipelines

- Communicate market intelligence to trading teams

- Identify and support efficiencies and improvements with operational processes

- Monthly balancing in OpenLink Endur

- Maintain excellent working relationships with pipelines, customers and internal parties

- Work with finance, risk and accounting to ensure accuracy in a timely fashion

- Participation in rotational weekend nomination coverage

- Understand pipeline/customer behavior and extract key insights that impact nomination and transactional decisions

- Function as a strategic partner to enabling teams, prioritize opportunities and provide actionable recommendations

- Work across multiple scheduling teams to drive automation, standardization and integration

Essential Education

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant industry experience

Essential Experience And & Job Requirements

- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

- Proven written and verbal communication skills

- Initiative-taking and independent problem solver

- Skilled in interacting and influencing across a wide range of professional teams

- Ability to multi-task and manage high pressure situations in a dynamic environment with critical time deadlines

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Excellent analytical, computational, and critical thinking skills including proficiency in Excel

Desirable criteria

- Ability to work in a team-first setting

- High resiliency in stressful situations

- Unique backgrounds to introduce novel thinking and approaches

- Familiarity or experience in statistical modeling, SQL, quantitative programming (e.g., Python, R, or Spark), data visualization (e.g., PowerBI, Plotly, D3)

Responsibilities

- Manages product supply and demand balances for the defined region, delivering reliable supply and mitigating supply disruptions.

- Executes overall supply chain processes, trading and asset strategies, leading initiatives from definition to execution and identifying efficiencies.

- Ensures product quality and supply reliability incidents are resolved, implementing actions for continuous improvements and opportunities to minimize costs throughout the supply chain.

- Develops and maintains relationships with internal and external stakeholders, representing bp’s interests on issues including product specifications and operational flexibility.

- Supports the team to move product out of refining and blending facilities, supplying bp’s sales demand, and executing trading and asset strategies.

- Complies with bp’s Code of Conduct and models bp’s Values & Behaviors.

Why join bp:

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

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Ancillary cost management, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Competitor intelligence, Customer service delivery excellence, Demurrage, Developing and implementing strategy, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Inventory Management, Listening, Marine assurance, Mentoring, Negotiating, Shipping/transport, Supply chain management, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading and scheduling operations, Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Trends, Trading knowledge, Troubleshooting, Voyage operations

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.