HR Business Partner

At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As part of an integrated energy company, PC&C is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused.

We’re investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast moving PC&C function, forming teams and structures and driving continuous improvement.

We’re looking for driven, high-reaching enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If you're ready to build something ground-breaking, this is the place for you.

Role Synopsis

Member of a flow to work squad with a global remit and impact, along with partnering & Center of Excellence (COE) colleagues, to deliver people priorities and projects for the business.

Collaborate across the P&C function and with other collaborators to people activities including effectiveness & transformation, talent engagement, diversity & inclusion, and fostering a high-performing culture.

As an HR Business Partner at bp, you will play a pivotal role in enabling our people and culture plans by partnering with key business entities such as Customer & Products, Production & Operations, Gas & Low Carbon, or Corporate Functions.

Work flexibly across single or multiple concurrent projects/activities that may vary in terms of complexity, business impact, geographical spread, and duration.

Please note

Role Purpose

Support People & Culture (P&C) Vice Presidents (VPs) and Senior Managers in delivering people plans and projects, underpinning successful execution of strategic business objectives.

Leverage HR expertise to implement strategic people initiatives including effectiveness & transformation, talent, engagement, diversity & inclusion fostering an impactful culture.

No direct or indirect reports

• Align with partnering and CoE colleagues to develop, plan, and implement prioritized strategic people activities that include organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, diversity & inclusion, and driving a high-performing culture.
• Adopt agile methodologies to ensure cost-effective delivery of activities through a prioritized work model.
• Work along a distributed team to translate people priorities/plans into tangible actions/project deliverables.
• Work effectively with a multi-disciplinary squad, often collaborating across geographies and time zones to ensure effective delivery.
• Maintain business knowledge to ensure results are contextualized to the needs of different parts of the client organization as needed.
• Leverage and interpret data and insights relevant to the delivery of prioritized activities.
• Align with bp’s safety leadership principles, office safety expectations and code of conduct, and demonstrate bp’s Who We Are beliefs.
• Where based in a country with 24/7 BP operating businesses, willingness and ability to support Crisis & Continuity Management (C&CM) and/or Incident Management Team (IMT) activities as needed.

Degree and/or expertise:

• Postgraduate qualification in Human Resources or a connected field would be an advantage.

Skills:

• Curiosity
• Stakeholder management
• Resourcefulness
• Managing change
• Resilience
• Psychological safety
• Programme management
• Continuous improvement
• Organizational knowledge
• Commercial competence
• Analytical thinking
• Agile core principles
• Teamwork
• Coaching

Essential Experience and Job Requirements

• The role holder will have 5-8 years+ experience gained across fields within commercial and/or operational environments.

Note – there will be a requirement for different levels of knowledge and experience within the partnering pool to ensure the capability spread needed to deliver projects/initiatives

Behavioral:

• Communication

  : Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to articulate HR concepts clearly and concisely.

• Influencing

  : Positively influences others to create acceptance for decisions, build consensus or resolve conflicts.

• Adaptability & Resilience

  : Thrives in constant change and complex, fast-paced, ambiguous environments. Bounces back from setbacks stronger and more resilient.

• Distributed team player

  : Works optimally with cross-cultural teams and in diverse cultural environments. Prioritizes the team and enables its success.

• Continuous improvement

  : Open to feedback, continuous learning and self-development.

• Performance bias

  : Dedicated, accountable, solution oriented and sets high standards.

Technical:

• Functional breadth: Experience and delivery track record across multiple HR activities including business partnering, reward, performance management, talent management, learning & development, employee relations, organizational development, diversity & inclusion, etc.
• Organizational transformation: Experience in supporting organizational change activities including divestments, acquisitions, restructurings and culture change.
• Project management: Experience of supporting HR project implementation and execution.
• Analytical thinking: Uses the power of people data to deliver insights and identify patterns, trends and correlations to support evidence-based decision making.
• Problem solving: Able to identify problems and develop practical, sustainable solutions using a range of techniques.
• Partner management: Establishes and manages mutually beneficial and responsive relationships with collaborators, building rapport, trust and credibility.
• Commercial acumen: Is aware and conscientious of how their role impacts both day to day and strategic commercial initiatives.
• Coaching: Able to mentor and guide business leaders on a variety of HR related issues.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience working with agile methodologies (scrum, kanban, etc.) & Experience with HR systems (Workday and/or Salesforce).

Key Relationships – Internal:

• VPs P&C; P&C Senior Managers
• Peer P&C Partners
• Business Leadership teams
• People Relations, Reward, Ops & Advisory, Talent

Why join us:

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 crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. Diversity Statement: At bp, we provide an excellent environment and benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others!

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.