Senior Analyst - Logistics AU

Job Family Group:

Strategic Planning & Business Development Group

Job Description:

As bp transitions to an integrated energy company, we must adapt to a changing world and maintain competitive performance. bp’s customers & products (C&P) business area is setting up a business and technology centre (BTC) in Pune, India. This will support the delivery of an enhanced customer experience and drive innovation by building global capabilities at scale, leveraging technology, and developing deep expertise. The BTC will be a core and connected part of our business, bringing together colleagues who report into their respective part of C&P, working together with other functions across bp. This is an exciting time to join bp and the customers & products BTC!

About the Role

The role is accountable for providing analytical and data modelling expertise to support safe, customer-service oriented and cost-effective fuels logistics solutions for customers of bp Australia sales channels. The role uses internal and external data sources to understand logistics performance, demand, costs and supply chain efficiencies to report on performance and generate insights to optimise performance.

The role owns and delivers core logistics analytical processes, with a focus on continuously improving quality and efficiency. The role supports the logistics team and sales channels to identify, understand and capture opportunities to improve business performance.

What you will deliver

Key Responsibilities

Logistics Network & Operations

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Australian logistics network, including carriers, operating regions, terminals, supply points, fleet types, delivery models, and business segments (ground fuels and aviation fuels).
• Maintain carrier and supply point mappings, including truck types, delivery models, and regional coverage.
• Assess logistics models, supply impacts, and network constraints to support customer onboarding and operational planning.

Freight Rate Management & Salesforce

• Manage freight rate requests for new customers through Salesforce.
• Liaise with third-party freight carriers to obtain, validate, and consolidate freight rates.
• Support internal customers during customer onboarding by providing accurate logistics rate inputs.

Carrier Engagement & Commercial Support

• Act as a key contact for carriers on rate-related discussions, clarifications, and confirmations.
• Maintain carrier rate outcome and tender result records, including won and lost opportunities.
• Provide structured monthly carrier feedback on rate outcomes and tender decisions.

Fuel Escalation & Regulatory Reporting

• Calculate and distribute monthly fuel issue rates in line with approved escalation methodologies.
• Prepare and submit AdBlue sales and volume reports in compliance with Australian Government reporting requirements.

Freight Rate Review & Recoveries

• Review existing carrier freight rates to ensure recoveries are aligned with contractual and commercial agreements.
• Perform annual carrier freight rate reviews using Distribution Cost Index (DCI) models, fuel issue data, and carrier inputs.

Payment Validation & Suspense Resolution

• Review transfer and pairing reports to validate freight costs and expected payments.
• Support the resolution of carrier payment queries by investigating discrepancies and validating rates.
• Clear suspense items by providing missing or corrected rate information in coordination with Hired Cartage and Finance teams.

Financial Forecasting & Annual Planning

• Build and maintain logistics financial forecasts, including the Annual Logistics Plan.
• Use DCI models, sales forecasts, and issue assumptions to develop initial-year and annual logistics forecasts.
• Support midstream pricing strategies by providing logistics cost and volume data.

Tender & Risk Evaluation

• Support tender processes and new customer evaluations by assessing logistics costs, risks, and operational feasibility.
• Provide logistics inputs for commercial and customer credit reviews.

Operational & Data Analysis

• Conduct ad hoc logistics and operational analyses to support cost optimisation and business decisions.
• Review loading and unloading performance data on a biannual basis using carrier and terminal data.

Systems & Reporting

• Use SAP, Salesforce, Power BI, and supporting logistics systems to manage freight rates, reporting, forecasting, and payment validation.
• Develop and maintain Power BI reports to analyse logistics data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights.

Key Skills & Capabilities

• Strong understanding of logistics operations, freight pricing, and carrier management
• Advanced data analysis and reporting skills (Excel, Power BI)
• Experience with SAP and Salesforce in a logistics or commercial environment
• Strong customer and carrier communication skills
• Financial forecasting and commercial analysis capability
• High attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills

• Collaborate closely with the Logistics Analyst NZ to drive improved performance and alignment across ANZ.
• This role has primary accountability as AU analyst, but remit will also include analyst activity for NZ as required including providing leave cover for NZ Analyst.

Shift Timings

• 3AM - 12PM IST

Skills & Competencies

• Understanding of supply chains (transport, logistics, storage, distribution)
• Highly numerate with proven ability and experience in building, using and maintaining large data sets and models that support problem solving, decision making and optimisation.
• Effective communicator with a high degree of confidence in dealing with a variety of internal & external customers. Able to distil down complex problems and analysis into a form that customers understand.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to assess both the short term and longer-term implications of decisions.
• Flexible, able to adjust to changing priorities and work across multiple projects with multiple teams.
• Ability to understand problems and provide data to inform relevant alternative options.
• Have a curious mindset and the drive to identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
• Strong attention to detail
• Advanced Excel and Power BI skills are required. Previous experience using SAP PRE, SAP Ariba and Salesforce is desirable.

Experience and Qualifications

• Graduate in any field, preferably with a background in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or Data/Analytics.

You will work with

You will be part of the Logistics ANZ Team, a dynamic team whose purpose is to support our 3rd party transport carriers to deliver safe, reliable, efficient and cost-effective Logistics services to bp’s Customers across our Retail, Commercial, Dealer, Aviation and Marine businesses. Your stakeholders include our sales teams, carriers, Logistics Finance business partner and the Finance and Business Technology team in Pune.

Why Join our team?

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 crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Travel Requirement:

Negligible 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:

Acquisitions and divestments, Acquisitions and divestments, Agreements and negotiations, Analytics, Commercial Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Communication, Contractual risk management, Data visualization and interpretation, Deal structuring, Decision Making, Developing and implementing strategy, Economic evaluation methodology, Economic modelling, Financial Analysis, Financial Modelling, Influencing, Investment appraisal, Joint Venture Structuring, Long Term Planning, Managing change, Market Analysis, Project and programme management, Risk Management, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding {+ 2 more}

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