Marine Commercial Manager

Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee 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.

Are you energised by solving commercial challenges, connecting people around a common goal and helping a global business grow?

bp Marine is a global trading, origination and marketing business operating across key marine hubs and unique ports worldwide. Working closely with the global fuel oil, gasoil and bio trading businesses, bp Marine provides access to customers across the marine fuels' market while supporting the competitive marketing of bp's refining production.

As Commercial Manager, Marine, a vital role will be played in supporting the performance, growth and strategic direction of the global Marine Trading, Origination and Marketing business. Working alongside commercial, trading, analytics and leadership teams across geographies, the position offers exposure to strategic decision-making, commercial development and business transformation initiatives.

The role sits within GDIST, T&S's global middle, heavy and bio-distillates trading business, which trades products including diesel, gasoil, renewable fuels, biofuels, feedstocks, jet fuel and specialty products across global markets.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a highly connected international business, helping teams turn ideas into action while supporting performance, growth and long-term value creation!

What could the role involve?

Success in this role comes from bringing people together, creating clarity and helping important initiatives move forward.

Working closely with the Global Head of Marine and regional collaborators, responsibility will include helping shape business priorities, providing insights that support decision-making and ensuring strategic projects are delivered optimally.

The successful candidate will play a significant role to amplify business performance reporting, commercial analysis and strategy development, helping identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement. They will also work with commercial and analytics teams to strengthen performance monitoring, support commercial opportunities and enhance business planning activities.

A key aspect of the role involves improving how the business operates. This includes supporting the Marine digital agenda, finding opportunities to simplify processes and helping teams collaborate effectively across regions and functions.

The role also offers opportunities to engage with internal and external collaborators, support commercial growth initiatives and chip in to capability building across the Marine organisation.

What are we looking for?

Could this be the next step in your career?

The ideal candidate brings strong commercial awareness, curiosity and a passion for solving complex business challenges. Experience in a trading, commercial, strategy, business management or related environment would be valuable.

Success in the role will require:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• The ability to evaluate information, develop practical solutions and support informed decision-making.
• Confidence communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience building collaborative relationships across teams and functions.
• The ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Understanding of commercial performance, trading principles and business reporting.
• Experience improving processes, systems or ways of working.
• Flexibility to collaborate across different regions and time zones.

Experience within shipping, marine fuels, bunkering or related industries would be advantageous, as would previous leadership, mentoring or project delivery experience.

Inclusion and accessibility

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute and succeed.

If reasonable adjustments or accommodations are needed during the recruitment process or while performing the role, support will be provided. Candidates are encouraged to let us know how we can help create the best possible experience.

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.

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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

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 a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Continuous Learning, Customer promise execution, Customer service delivery excellence, Deal modelling and valuation, Developing and implementing strategy, Influencing, Internal alignment, Listening, Loyalty Management, Marketing strategy and programmes, Negotiating value, Negotiation planning and preparation, Partner relationship management, Presenting, Sentiment and Trends, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading Fundamentals, Trading knowledge, Writing skills

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