LP Analyst

Entity: Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

Job Description:

About Us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

About the role

The Agile LP Solutions team is a global team of refinery LP analysts responsible for LP analysis in support of both long term (M+3 and beyond) planning and refinery retrospective performance analysis (RAID) across bp's global refining system.

The LP analyst will identify opportunities from retrospective analysis using the Whiting refinery LP model to enhance the refinery commercial performance. The LP analyst will communicate and drive the resolution of identified actions to affect the additional margin capture.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide LP based performance and opportunity analysis of:
  • Crude purchasing, product sale decisions, commercial strategy and execution of refinery operations.
  • Constraint saturation and constraint busting opportunities.
  • Identify areas for improvement and propose actions to capture additional margin and improve processes.
  • Deep dive studies on new opportunities e.g. spec changes.
• Communicate results and align feedback with relevant refinery and supply interested parties.
• Apply best practice in retrospective, planning and optimization analysis.
• Analyze deviations of the LP model with actual results to drive improvements in the model and its use.
• Engage with interested parties in supply, refining and finance to progress priorities, improve performance and support planning activities.
• Support refinery commercial performance reporting with insight from LP analysis.
• Develop capability to backfill other LP analyst/ Asset economist or other commercial optimization roles in the refining/supply interface.

Essential Education, experience and requirements

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, business or science related field or equivalent vocational training.
• Fluent in English
• Senior experience across refinery or petrochemical optimization, process engineering, supply, operations, or production planning
• Comfortable with new and evolving digital tools, results orientated and possess good technical communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and influence and drive improvement.
• Commercial acumen
• Refinery optimization and operations
• Analytical thinking
• Analysis and modeling skills (focused on analysis).

Desired experience

• Refinery optimization experience, LP analysis or other modelling experience.

Why join bp:

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 encouraging 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 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!

Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agile Fundamentals, Analysis and modelling, Analytical Thinking, Asset planning and optimization, Commercial Acumen, Communication

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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 .

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