P&C Senior Partner - Functions

BP; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

BP in the United States is seeking a senior People, Culture & Communications professional to drive end-to-end delivery of complex P&C transformation initiatives. You will work in a flow to work squad with partnering and CoE colleagues, applying agile methods to deliver prioritized priorities across geographies and business units.

You will collaborate with senior partners across the People & Culture functions, translate priorities into actionable deliverables, coach peers, and ensure sustainable

Qualifications

• 8–10 years' experience across people & culture disciplines in commercial/operational environments.
• Degree and/or professionally qualified in HR or related field; postgraduate qualification advantageous.
• Strong partnering and coaching capabilities with continuous improvement mindset.
• Proven capability in talent management, ER, change management, and organizational development.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead end-to-end delivery of complex P&C transformation initiatives.
• Translate priorities into tangible actions and deliverables with strong stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate across global teams and time zones to ensure delivery and value.
• Provide coaching and guidance to peers and build capability across the partnering pool.

Skills

Partnering

Coaching

Change management

Organizational development

Education

Degree or professional HR qualification

Job description

Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

The role holder will work as part of a flow to work squad with partnering and CoE colleagues to deliver agreed entity/sub-entity P&C priorities. The role involves adopting agile methodologies to ensure cost-effective delivery of initiatives through a prioritized flow to work model.

The role holder will collaborate with senior business partners and across the People & Culture functions to deliver key initiatives underpinning successful execution of the business strategy. The role requires flexibility to work across single or multiple concurrent projects/initiatives that may vary in terms of complexity, business impact, geographical spread, and duration.

Support VP P&Cs in delivering agreed entity/sub-entity P&C priorities, translate priorities into tangible actions/project deliverables to enable successful delivery of people plan.

Collaborate across the People & Culture function to deliver key initiatives underpinning successful execution of the business strategy.

May lead and own end-to-end delivery of complex P&C transformation projects, including scoping, partner alignment, execution, risk management, and embedding sustainable outcomes. The role may also provide coaching, mentoring and guidance to peers and less experienced colleagues, helping build capability across the partnering pool.

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

Key Accountabilities:

Own and lead end-to-end delivery of complex people, culture and transformation initiatives, ensuring outcomes are aligned to business priorities and delivered through effective partner engagement, governance and execution.

Align with partnering and CoE colleagues to develop, plan, and execute delivery of prioritized strategic people and culture initiatives including talent management and development, DE&I, employee engagement, M&A, reorganizations, etc.

Work as part of a team to translate priorities into tangible actions/project deliverables. Provide coaching, mentoring and thought partnership to peers and less experienced colleagues, supporting capability build, knowledge sharing and consistent delivery standards across the partnering pool.

Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary squad, often collaborating across geographies and time zones to ensure effective delivery. Act as a senior contributor within multi-disciplinary squads, shaping approach, removing delivery barriers and role-modelling effective partnering, agile delivery and continuous improvement practices.

Maintain business knowledge to ensure deliverables 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 initiatives.

Lead the translation of ambiguous or complex business challenges into structured project plans, actionable deliverables and measurable outcomes. Partner with business leaders as needed to ensure successful project delivery.

Where based in a country with 24/7 bp operating businesses, willingness and ability to support Crisis & Continuity Management (C&CM) and/or IMT activities as needed

May work on global projects outside of normal business hours, flexibility is key.

Education:

Degree and/or professionally qualified. Postgraduate qualification in Human Resources or a connected discipline would be advantageous.

Job Requirements:

The role holder will have a 8-10 years' experience gained across a range of people & culture disciplines within commercial and 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:

Track record of effective partnering and coaching

role-modelling of best practices in continuous improvement and driving high performance

Technical:

Proven capability and experience in talent management, ER, change management, and organizational development.

Clear experience of project implementation and execution.

Demonstrated experience of operating in complex, geographically dispersed, and culturally diverse environments.

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering 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 ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html ) to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to