Job Description:

At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As we transition from an oil company to an integrated energy company, PC&C 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 PC&C function, building 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 you're ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you.

The Skills Performance Consultant is responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering global development strategies to bp. They ensure that the audience and business have the capabilities needed to meet current and future objectives and achieve bp's strategic goals. The role focuses on understanding the business context, converting goals into relevant people impacts, analyzing skills gaps, optimizing development interventions and programmes, and integrating skills insights into workforce planning, development, and performance. This role is global, supporting complex entity collaborators who have a high degree of influence. The Skills Performance Consultant has a broad scope and high degrees of technical complexity, collaborating with internal and external collaborators to build a skills culture and ensure employee development for bp's organizational goals. This role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance and conformance to external regulations in particular markets, ensuring competence to internal and external standards. The Skills Performance Consultant will deliver precision skilling to help our people perform today and predictive skilling to help our people transform for tomorrow.

What you will do:

• Works with the SPM, Talent, PC&C and business leaders, engaging in strategic planning conversations with key customers to discuss their near-term business strategy and skill needs and how it will be operationalized through a prioritized skills to be 'built' plan.
• Understands the strategic workforce and skill development context for their area of responsibility and how this connects to common priorities across bp to ensure solutions deliver maximum value.
• Translates key performance shifts into prioritized skills to be 'built' and understands the relationship with skills to be 'bought' through workforce planning.
• Creates and delivers the prioritized skills to be 'built' plan for their area of responsibility, including detailed needs analysis and impact evaluation strategy.
• Proposes solutions for the design team and completes the business value and skills performance briefing documents to demonstrate solution value and impact and enable robust prioritization conversations.
• Maintains strong working relationships to ensure solutions developed and implemented to meet needs by creating an effective atmosphere for collaboration between subject matter experts, customers, and the learning design excellence team. Solves sophisticated problems and supports the team to remove blockers.
• Owns the catalogue for their area of responsibility, ensures solutions are refined to increase impact and efficiency and retired when they no longer bring value.
• Leads, mentors and coaches the squads of supporting analysts with the learning organisations; ensuring they understand and focus on key performance shifts in the performance of their role.

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in human resources, organizational development, business administration, finance, economics, education or related field.
• 10+ years' experience in sophisticated organizations, specifically HR, skills management, performance management or workforce planning.
• 5-years' experience advising, coaching, and influencing senior leaders.
• 5-years' experience in a customer-facing business role preferred.

Skills:

• Learning application and behaviour change; knowledge management; skills management and workforce planning; project management; creativity and innovation; communication and senior collaborator engagement; growth mindset; critical thinking; stakeholder management; data analysis, visualization and interpretation; problem solving; creativity and innovation; artificial intelligence; commercial competence; 'getting things done'; collaboration; leading through ambiguity.

• Skills from the capability framework for PC&C COE specialists: managing change; psychological safety; continuous learning; legal and regulatory environment and compliance; continuous improvement; analytical thinking; agility core practices; resilience; teamwork; customer centric thinking.

Technical:

• Experience of Degreed (grow@bp), Xyleme and Cornerstone (My Talent & Learning).
• Strong understanding of current trends in skills management, talent development, and impactful learning.

Behavioural:

• Proven track record to deliver balanced solutions, combining business-specific expertise and technical/functional knowledge with a good understanding of people development and developing consumer-grade solutions.
• Learning delivery and presentation skills to large audiences.

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 inclusive 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
Negligible 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:
Agility core practices, Communication, Continued Learning, Creating and measuring impact, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Design Thinking, Knowledge Sharing, Leadership development, Learning application and behavioural change, Learning content design and management, Learning delivery and facilitation, Marketing learning, Performance Consulting, Stakeholder Management, Talent Management, User experience research, Writing skills

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.