P&C Senior Advisor

Entity:

People & Culture

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

People & Culture (P&C) Senior Advisor

ROLE SYNOPSIS:

Responsible for supporting employees and line managers within one of bp’s businesses, 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 using sound technical capabilities to provide day-to-day advice, case management, line manager support for critical 'moments that matter' and project delivery in line with the business' people plan, local legislation, bp policy and best practice.

The role holder may operate as a member of a business leadership, providing business driven insights to support decision making and determine appropriate global / business wide interventions. They also act as coach to that team, and a champion for team effectiveness, and Who we Are beliefs. They may support and work in partnership with other senior business partners in the delivery of P&C initiatives for that business.

About the team: At bp our P&C business partners are an integrated discipline. Movement between businesses, teams, and projects, takes place flexibly based on business need, activity flow, and each partner’s development needs and readiness for new experiences. We aim to provide broad growth opportunities in both standard partnering roles, and project delivery. This role may be placed to support any of bp’s exciting business entities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

People fundamentals

• Deliver reliable, compliant, and secure HR operations in support of the business
• Ensure health, safety & duty of care for our people
• Provide business facing HR consultation and advice to senior leadership and may facilitate resolution of everyday queries and coaching to drive engagement, pre-empting and resolving employee relations (ER) cases, and ensuring that diversity and inclusion are 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 Centres of Expertise to agree and define product outcomes, and activity prioritization, employee development, performance management, coaching, etc.
• Provide analytics and insights to make robust people and business decisions
• Leverages best practices and identifies efficiencies and opportunities for synergies 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 and Who we Are beliefs

Right people, right place, right time

• Create & sustain an effective organisation to support delivery of business strategy, and focuses on driving and delivering organisational change initiatives as appropriate
• Support the Talent Acquisition team 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

Environments where people & performance thrive

• 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.
• Drive engagement with our people from their very first interaction with bp.
• Leverages agile methodologies to maximize value to end customer (business leaders, and employees).
• Lead working groups in co-creating fit-for-purpose HR solutions, products, and services with subject-matter experts

Key capabilities

• Partnering with the business & coaching for success
• Proactive talent management & Employee relations
• Delivering value through agile work practices & digitally enabled
• Willingness to challenge established practices and offer new solutions if needed
• Delivering through bp’s Who we Are beliefs
• Great communication skills and the ability to influence key senior stake-holders

ABOUT BP

PEOPLE & CULTURE

People & culture discovers, empowers and cares for brilliant people, and so can you.

Together, we can build and enable our culture, emotionally connected leaders and

dynamic teams – and help our company achieve its purpose for people and our

planet.

Join us and work closely with our business by:

• Always putting our people first, understanding and responding to their needs, supporting their health, wellbeing and recognizing them for great work
• Hiring and developing talented people and empowering them to progress
• Enabling an inclusive and agile culture, where our teams thrive and add value
• Developing emotionally connected leaders who continuously learn, put others first

and enable everyone to be at their best

• Creating energizing workplaces that enable collaboration and innovation.
  

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

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Usually requires at least 5 years’ experience in Human Resources, proven capability and experience in delivering talent management, ER, change management, and organisational development. Demonstrated leadership skills with

the ability to build capability, coach and drive high performance, track record of effective partnering, consider business needs and link value to business results. Experience with organisational change and working in a matrixed organisation and working knowledge of local labor legislation and regulations

DESIRABLE CRITERIA
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

Experience of Technology/Digital-native organisation

Industry Knowledge local HR policies and procedures

Experience of organisation change management

Experience of working in a matrixed organisation

Digital fluency - Comfortable using technology, also comfortable in the wider digital environment and the interface with business transformation including people, processes and data driven action

Cultural fluency - ability to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Culture and behaviour change, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Employee and labour relations, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Facilitation, Global Perspective, Influencing, Job Design, Leadership Assessment, Leading transformation, Long Term Planning, Managing change, Managing workforce concerns {+ 11 more}

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 disabilities may request a reasonable 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 accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

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.

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