Entity:
People, Culture Communications
Job Family Group:
HR Group
Job Description:
At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture Communications (PCC) function develops a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As part of an integrated energy company, PCC is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused.
We’re investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast-moving PCC function, establishing teams and structures and driving continuous improvement. We’re looking for driven, ambitious enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If youre ready to build something dynamic, this is the place for you.
This purpose of the Solutions lead - Org effectiveness is to own and drive a portion of the People Culture (PC) solution, encompassing both process and technology, ensuring that we deliver a great and efficient service for our people. The SL will build strong partnerships across PC – with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams and within the solutions teams. The SL will apply their technical expertise (process and technology) to deliver stable operations alongside projects and innovation.
To innovate and deliver HR services and solutions globally, ensuring compliance and consistency across Global Capability Hubs, and driving continuous improvement and efficiency.
What you will do:
• Managing a part of the PC solution - maintaining the health and operational integrity of your solutions / products, working with others to deliver stable operations
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and business needs, for example data privacy and digital security requirements
• Working closely with colleagues to ensure solutions / products co-exist seamlessly across PC
• Managing a prioritised backlog of changes, covering maintenance, fixes (non-urgent) and improvements, with a focus on implementation of ongoing activities
• Developing and implementing plans for the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of changes for your part of the PC solution
• Planning and implementing substantial aspects of change projects, including acting as product owner, delivering through others, delivering to time, cost and quality, managing risks – organize and implement projects, under limited supervision, by facilitating design sessions, leading configuration, coordinating testing, and performing cutover
• Develop positive working relationships with numerous bp stakeholders – with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams, within the solutions teams, and with teams outside PC such as colleagues in Technology, Digital Security, Privacy, Audit and others
• Building external relations including vendor management
• Truly understanding the business requirements and working to resolve problems within your area, challenging the status quo and making proposals to deliver against objectives – actively elicit, analyse and document business and functional requirements through requirements workshops, interviews or meeting sessions with Project Sponsors, SMEs and other Collaborators to contribute to the resolution of technical, process, and business issues related to your part of the PC solution
• Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the functional and technical impacts of configuration and other decisions to stakeholder groups
• Working within guidelines and professional standards, researching and resolving process and technical problems, unexpected results or process flaws and recommend solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements
• Supporting BP to be a thought-leader in the relevant technology space through ongoing external networking and tech landscape analysis
What you will need:
• Graduate/post-graduate degree in Business Management, HR, Computer Science, or similar related subject area
• 5+ years of work experience
• Experience in building and operating digital strategies and roadmaps
• Experience in systems requirement gathering, development and implementation
• Experience in corporate-wide implementation of global systems and processes
• Project management methodologies experience with ability to create/manage comprehensive project plans
• Knowledge of HR systems and web applications
• Possesses/applies HR systems experience/judgment
• Knowledge of technology trends
• Leadership and strong stakeholder management qualities
Skills:
Technical Capability
• Functional knowledge in core HR systems including reporting and analytical solutions; employee insights and surveys; HCMs such as Workday including business process framework, security, and reporting
• Basic knowledge of other HR and technology products, for example but not limited to: Azure, ADO, Jira, SharePoint, Salesforce, SNOW
• Breadth and depth across the HR functional areas and able to provide professional advice and act as a coach to others in most of the areas
• Ability to effectively partner with the Services and Solution teams and successfully influence leaders
• Digital fluency - not only comfortable and competent using technology to enable and enhance ways of working and thinking, also comfortable in the wider digital environment and the collaborate with business transformation including people, processes and data driven actions.
• Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision-making
• Proven experience in multiple organizational change management roles
• Expertise in development/delivery of SAAS/Cloud-based products including integrations
• Demonstrable track record of project/programme management skills including collaborator management/change expertise –Strong communicator with excellent presentation skills
Business Capability
• Demonstrable record of getting results from your field of expertise to develop processes and products
• Strong business insight and able to show where solutions can add new value to / enable the business at the leadership level
• Customer focus – Puts the customer and business strategy at the heart of decision making. Ability to guide leaders through choices to best suit business requirements
• Drives value-adding solutions - driven to create solutions to business problems. Track record of improving/adding new value
• Externally orientated – actively working on developing external connections, aware of standard methodology and actively learns from others
Leadership EQ Capability
• Acts as a coach develop your expertise for all Services and Solutions colleagues
• Continually enhancing capability in line with HR Capability Framework with an equal balance of EQ, IQ and Drive
• Group mind-set - demonstrates an understanding of the value of, and ability to develop, high quality, trust-based relationships with HR colleagues with the wider organisation - leaders employees
• Is self-aware and actively seeks input from others on impact and effectiveness
• Effective team player able to work successfully across organisational boundaries
• Applies judgement and common sense - demonstrates good understanding of clients business and is able to apply sound judgement / wise counsel
• Acts with integrity; role model of BP VBs to others in the function and business
• Cultural fluency - able to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity.
Behavioural:
• Ability to structure and convey complex messages and insights
• Leadership with vision and ambition
• Collaborative working style
• Own your success
• Think big
• Be curious
• Effortless customer experiences
• Digital first
Why join our team?
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.
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 crafting an environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, 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. Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.
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Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be 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:
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