Procurement Manager (Castrol)

Beschreibung:

Entity: Customers & Products

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

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.

It's an exciting time to join bp. Meeting the energy challenge requires many different approaches and solutions.

We're gearing up for the future. At bp our goal for C&P (Customer & Products) is to deliver the future of mobility, energy and services for our customers by innovating with new business models and service platforms. C&P will become a hub, housing our midstream, lubricants, aviation, sale of chemicals, mobility and convenience, marketing and our next-generation businesses, making it a highly integrated and interconnected organisation. And with safety being our core value, our commitment to safe and reliable operations will never change.

Want to join the team? This means:
* being customer-centric, agile and responsive to changing customer needs and dynamic markets
* focusing on growth and development of customer offers
* optimising the chemicals and fuels value chains to maximise integrated value
* contributing to the reduction of carbon intensity of the products we create, and sell, by 50% by 2050 or
* sooner
* creating strategic partnerships that drive long-term value for C&P
* being digitally enabled and empowered by customer insights and data to deliver solutions.

Join our Team and advance your career as a Procurement Manager in Budapest/Szeged, Hungary.

The Procurement Manager leads the strategic sourcing and procurement operation teams who perform sourcing & contracting activities, contract enablement, purchasing/order management and overseeing other operation teams. In this role you will ensure business requirements and demands are attended promptly, applying the commercial mindset to deliver the best value to the business. In addition, you will ensure that business purchasing requests are processed accurately and promptly in compliance to the relevant policies & procedures, and aligned to category strategy and approved buying channels.

The Procurement Manager collaborates closely with business stakeholders worldwide to understand demand, challenge assumptions when necessary, and drive significant improvements in third-party spend by implementing innovative solutions and change management initiatives that align with the category strategy.

In this role you will cultivate partnerships with data analytics and process excellence teams and collaborate to enhance user buying experience and drive efficient process. You will also drive continuous improvement mindset in the team to continuous delivering results and display emotional understanding and fostering resilience.

Key Accountabilities:

Operation Delivery:
* Oversee sourcing & contracting and procurement operations.

* Provide energizing and engaging leadership for their team or virtual team and clear direction.
* Deliver modernization & transformation activities, leading optimization of process aligned to the broader procurement and category strategic transformation agenda.
* Provide end to end proactive monitoring and management of demand pipeline to ensure workload prioritisation drives better user experience and on time transaction processing to suppliers.
* Procurement delivery: Provide advice to the business & PU procurement team on day-to-day operations. Provide oversight or interventions on operational issues.
* Unlock value and support procurement performance in line with procurement policy and category execution.  

Team Integration:

* Foster a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement through their team or virtual team, and the business.

* Develop the team's technical capabilities and nurtures accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and strong collaboration with stakeholders.

* Establish an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation.

Transformation and Change Management:

* Support implementation of transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value. 

* Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation.

* Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption.

* Constantly scan for improvement opportunities and implement transformative solution that solve the problems.

Essential Experience & Job Requirements:

* Degree educated (Finance or Procurement fields would be preferred) or equivalent relevant professional experience. Post graduate qualification related to procurement would be highly beneficial.

* Functional knowledge & significant relevant procurement & managerial experience. Must have access to and be knowledgeable on business context, strategic direction, priorities, stakeholders, and key strategies.

* Knowledge of procurement process and general accounting practices, as well as ERP and S2P suite.

* An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through procurement process in ERP/S2P suite.

* Experience in guiding procurement operation teams in critical thinking to uncover insights, bring value, and drive innovation.
* Drive continuous improvement and efficiency. 

* Ability to partner with the business to develop innovative solutions, clearing blockers and enabling delivery.
* Leadership experience, ideally in a procurement operation organization.
* Strong relationship building, problem solving and influencing skills.

At bp in Hungary, we provide the following environment & benefits to you:

* Different bonus opportunities based on performance, wide range of cafeteria elements

* Life & health insurance, medical care package

* Hybrid working arrangement aligned with team arrangements and business needs

* Opportunity to build up long term career path and develop your skills with wide range of learning options

* Celebrate in bp's success. You may be eligible to join bp's Global ShareMatch plan. This non-contractual benefit lets employees buy bp shares and receive matching shares, in line with plan rules

* Family friendly workplace e.g.: Extended parental leave, Mother-baby room

* Employees' wellbeing programs e.g.: Employee Assistance Program, Company Recognition Program

* Possibility to join our social communities and networks

* Chill-out and collaboration spaces in our beautiful Budapest Agora and Szeged offices e.g.: Play Zones, Office massage, Sport and music equipment

bp Hungary won the Most Attractive Employer 2024 Award (SSC / BSC sector) fourth time in a row at PwC's annual employer research. Come and join us!

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.

Disclaimer: Please note that, according to Hungarian law (2012/I. 113. §), mothers or single parents caring for a child under three years of age cannot be employed in night shift positions.

Travel RequirementUp to 10% 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:Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business Requirements Analysis, Category spend profiling, Category Strategy, Cost modelling, Digital Fluency, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Product and market intelligence, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Value creation and management

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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.

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