ESG Senior Advisor - Trading

bp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Paid parental leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

bp is seeking an ESG and Sustainability specialist to join the Supply, Trading & Shipping HSE team. You will appraise ESG risks and opportunities across traditional and energy-transition commodities, guiding governance and due diligence for major deals.

You will support sustainability reporting, monitor ESG performance indicators, and help integrate bp’s Sustainability Strategy into trading operations while building awareness across teams and leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, environmental or science-based subject.
• Knowledge of energy commodities, technologies, and global energy markets incl. biofuels, renewable power, carbon sequestration or credits/offsets.
• Awareness of environmental sustainability processes including ecology, climate, pollution or circularity.
• Awareness of social sustainability issues including Community Rights, Human Rights and Labor Rights standards.
• Familiarity with energy sector operations/assets and HSE risk management.

Responsibilities

• Pre-Appraisal of traditional and new trading activity, highlighting ESG relevance and risk.
• Formal investment governance to assess and translate residual risk for bp.
• Join project teams to guide ESG due diligence of large ITK deals and long-term commitments.
• Post-Deal support to establish monitoring, management systems and ESG reporting.
• Sustainability strategy support integrating bp Sustainability Strategy into Trading operations.
• Awareness building to enable Trading teams and Leadership to understand ESG factors.
• Participate in Non-Operated JV Risk Assurance Workshops to assess JV ESG risk exposure.

Skills

Environmental awareness

Sustainability reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Mentorship & presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering/environmental/science

Job description

Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

HSSE Group

Job Description:

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.

About the role

This role will join a multi-disciplined bp supply, trading & shipping HSE team and will provide Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability subject matter expertise. Appraising the risks and opportunities associated with both conventional and energy transition commodities and support the business development.

What you will deliver

• Pre-Appraisal of traditional / new trading activity and investment, highlighting potential ESG relevance and risk.
• Formal investment governance functional assurance to assess and translate/communicate residual risk for bp
• Join project teams to guide ESG Due Diligence of larger ITK deals, including significant long term commercial commitments and merger/acquisition projects.
• Post-Deal support to establish monitoring, management systems and reporting of ESG performance indicators.
• Sustainability Strategy support, integrating bp Sustainability Strategy aims into Trading’s operations
• Awareness building to enable Trading teams and Leadership to understand ESG&S factors
• Participate in Non-Operated Joint Venture Risk Assurance Workshops to support assessment of Joint Venture ESG risk exposure for bp

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in an engineering, environmental or science-based subject.
• Knowledge of energy commodities, technologies, and global energy markets (inc. biofuels, renewable power, carbon sequestration or credits/offsets, as well as conventional oil and gas)
• Awareness of environmental sustainability related processes including ecology, climate, agronomy pollution or concepts of circularity.
• Awareness of key social sustainability issues including Community Rights, Human Rights and Labor Rights standards.
• Familiarity with energy sector operations/assets (e.g., refineries, exploration, power stations, terminals, vessels), including operational HSE risk awareness and Management Systems.

Commercial/Trading Operations and ESG Investment Strategy

• Awareness of the nature of trading and commercial/business development operations as a core part of the bp Business.
• Appreciation of commodity trading mechanisms with regards to physical as well as financial trades and their purpose and value for bp.
• Understanding of bp’s reset strategy
• Awareness of external ESG principles and reporting policies (e.g., the UN-SDGs, TCFD, GRI, CDP, SASB, UN Global Compact)
• Awareness of Sustainable/Ethical Investment standards (e.g., Equator Principles, UN PRI, MSCI)

Desirable Personal Skills:

Versatile and flexible Work Ethic:

• Growth mindset and ability to constructively integrate into workstreams
• Ability to work with limited information in newly developed and/or changing strategic frameworks – ability to develop or improve processes “on the go.”
• Ability to prioritize and lead multiple dynamic deal commitments of varying complexity, time scale and significance.

Information Handling and Communication Ability:

• Ability to assess, simplify and communicate large/sophisticated concepts or numerical information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong mentorship, training, and presentation skills.

Display Integrity and Resilience:

• Ability to speak up and defend position against enquiry in one-to-one, team or leadership meeting situations - Dedication to standards of integrity.
• Strong influencing and persuasion skills - skilled in consensus-building.

Stakeholder Engagement Capability:

• Building and managing relationships – particularly with a remote network.
• Deliver through others without direct line accountability.
• Collaborative and agile inter-discipline awareness collaborating with peers from other functional assurance fields

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

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, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us.

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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 core practices, Barriers and Bowties Management, Coaching, Communication, Continuous Learning, Cost-conscious decision-making, Exposure Risk Management, Hazard Identification, HSSE auditing and self-verification, Human Performance, Influencing, Low carbon process safety hazards, Major accident risk, OMS and bp requirements, Personal Safety, Process safety culture, Process safety hazard recognition, Process Safety Management, Risk Assessment and Response, Risk-Based Decision Making, risk communication, Risk Identification, Risk Management, Risk Management Process {+ 2 more}

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