Job Details: Business Adviser

Role synopsis

These commercial roles sit within the Finance Division of BP’s North Sea upstream business. The role of a Business Adviser is to:-
- Represent BP externally in joint venture assets,
- Act as the key point of business integration,
- Co-ordinate the development of asset strategies,
- Build business plans and manage performance,
- Manage existing commercial agreements and shape new agreements, and
- Identify & create value-adding business opportunities.

Key accountabilities

Business Integration 
- Develop, refresh and monitor implementation of asset strategies.
- Ensure that quality business plans are in place, to support delivery of strategies.
- Provide integration across functions to create unified work programmes & budgets.
- Support operations managers to make activity planning and prioritisation decisions.

Joint Venture Management
- Represent BP on and lead joint venture management committees.
- Co-ordinate and manage BP technical representation at JV sub committees.
- Build co-venturer alignment to support JV approval and funding of BP proposed activity.
- Manage all communications between BP and co-venturers.
- Ensure administration of JV processes and compliance with contractual obligations.

Commercial Operations
- Develop business relationships and represent BP with third parties on contractual matters.
- Operate existing commercial agreements and manage commercial disputes.
- Lead, negotiate and deliver new agreements needed to support business plans and new projects.

Asset Value Delivery
- Protect and promote BP’s interests through deep understanding of joint venture agreements and third party service contracts.
- Seek opportunities to maximise value from the asset for BP, including the winning of new third party service business.
- Manage financial and business risks and prepare risk mitigation plans.

 Essential Education

Degree qualified, preferably in an appropriate business-related discipline.

 Essential experience and job requirements

- A strategic thinker, who is commercially astute with good business insight.
- Able to analyse and manage complex, multi-faceted commercial issues and risks.
- Comfortable representing BP externally, and in developing business relationships.
- Able to work with and influence counter-parties where objectives are not necessarily aligned.
- Strong team-working skills; able to work effectively with staff in operations and technical functions.