Trading Operations Technical Leader
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The trading teams in ST&S RPTE are one of three regional Performance Units in
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
ST&S and are primarily responsible for marketing BP’s Exploration production throughout the region, sourcing crude for our refineries, trading on behalf of our associates and for supporting our refinery assets in order to maximise commercial performance. Operations are a vital part of Supply and Trading. In RPTE this covers physical, paper and refinery coordination elements of operations across a large geographical region and deals with a wide variety of cultures and disciplines. The Operations team comprises of sub teams namely Trading Operations, Voyage Operations, Cargo Assurance, Doc. Admin, inventory Analysts and Shipping Coordination. Operations have a key role to play in ensuring that the front to back process runs smoothly, technical expertise is provided, and that valuable data and information is collected, entered and forwarded in a timely manner in order to provide full support to others dependent on such information in order to maintain an efficient and compliant process. The team manages the logistics of a deal to BP’s best commercial advantage whilst ensuring that all contractual and Group assurance obligations are met.
As member of the Operations Extended Leadership team, the Trading Operations Technical Leader is responsible for ensuring the smooth, compliant and flawless Operations in their trading operations team. Managing essential front office, functional and cross regional relationships.
Role Responsibilities
- Build technical and operational capability of operators on your bench including training new joiners, fostering learning and encouraging knowledge sharing.
- Support day-to-day operations delivery and complex operational scenarios as required by the individual bench, thus supporting bench strategy.
- Provide out of hours’ cover as required by the individual bench.
- Encourage those around you to speak up for COLT events, ensure these are flagged to your TOM ASAP and recorded using the Five Whys in COLT with a strong focus on the actions taken.
- Support crossbench training and build capability as part of the Tech Lead community.
- Own operational input for bench related new business activity (including NAI’s), through regular engagement with both front office and functions.
- Interface with support functions as required for operations i.e. Tax, Commodity Risk.
- Organise and run weekly technical meetings including delivery of key messages to bench.
- Report incidents and manage risk on a root cause analysis-basis, where required for operations on your bench.
- Support the delivery of trading strategy through technical input to maximise value.
- Work with the operations team leader on your bench to develop and embed 'our beliefs’ within the team.
- Support and where required lead in continuous improvement initiatives as well digital projects across operations.
- Lead to ensure strict Trading Operations adherence to the ST&S and RPTE Risk Management Report and associated Trading Operations Risk Register, with a keen focus on ensuring key purple risks barriers are maintained through adherence to Group, ST&S and RPTE Trading Operations policies and procedures and barrier self-verification.
- Lead in reporting Key ops Metrics & KPIs through the Ops Performance Management KPI app. Support and ensure Trading Operations are perform against our Operations Framework and specific strategic goals.
- Strive to drive the Operations Pulse Survey Results in a positive direction as a collective LT.
- Ensure protection of bp's systems and information, including all our employee, customer and consumer data through strong cyber security behaviours.
Role Requirements
- Strong skill in oil trading operations (cargo and / or barges)
- Able to demonstrate a proven track record in operational experience
- Understand risk, compliance, HSSE and Shipping requirements relating to operations
- Proven track record of delivering commercial value
- Strong leadership and communication skills including ability to motivate a team
- Strong team player
- Strong negotiation skills (formulating and implementing strategy)
- Ability to achieve operation and business goals through influencing, systematic planning and effective management of available resources
- Attention to operational detail
- Ability to find innovative solution to problems & work with M&D and/or I&E in support of our digital agenda.
- Proven track record of relationship building in front office environment and with external counter parties
- Willingness to speak up
- Having a strategic mind set as well as understanding / managing risks and implications of the business / people decisions.
- Identifying key issues in a complex situation, adapting quickly using the resources available to lead the Operations team and relating partners through changes effectively
- Demonstrated ability to identify and lead change and simplification within a team.
Why join us?
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 exciting 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 others benefits.
Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!
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⭐ Highlight your Trading Operations leadership experience prominently in your Personal Statement, as the advert explicitly requires an Operations Extended Leadership team member managing a full bench.
📊 Quantify your operational scope: e.g. 'Managed daily operations across 8 traders' benches, processing 120+ cargo nominations per month with zero contractual breaches'.
🎯 Reference your experience with COLT or equivalent incident-reporting frameworks and root cause analysis (Five Whys) directly in your CV — the advert names these tools explicitly as core responsibilities.
🌐 Demonstrate cross-regional and cross-functional experience (Tax, Commodity Risk, front office) with named geographies or business units, as the role spans a large geographical region with diverse cultures.
🤝 Include a bullet on training and capability-building: e.g. 'Designed and delivered onboarding programme for 6 new operations joiners, reducing time-to-competency by 4 weeks', as mentoring and bench development are central to this role.
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- •Led a 10-person trading operations bench across crude and refined products, processing 110+ cargo nominations monthly with a 99.6% on-time contractual compliance rate.
- •Implemented Five Whys root cause analysis across 14 COLT events in 12 months, driving a 40% reduction in repeat operational control failures and cutting escalation time to TOM by 48 hours on average.
- •Designed and delivered a cross-bench technical training programme for 6 new joiners in voyage operations and cargo assurance, reducing time-to-competency from 10 weeks to 7 weeks.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
BP's Trading Operations Technical Leader role within ST&S RPTE is precisely the step I have been working towards — a position that demands both deep operational expertise in crude cargo management and the leadership capability to build bench strength and drive COLT compliance across a complex, cross-regional team. Having spent several years in physical commodity trading operations, I am well-versed in managing front-to-back processes, interfacing with Tax and Commodity Risk functions, and applying Five Whys methodology to resolve control events swiftly.
My background in supply and trading operations includes overseeing voyage operations and cargo assurance for a 12-person bench handling over 100 nominations per month, as well as designing onboarding programmes that reduced new joiner time-to-competency by three weeks. I have consistently prioritised knowledge sharing and technical development within my teams, running weekly technical meetings and supporting cross-bench training initiatives aligned to broader operational strategy.
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Technical
- ›Walk us through the front-to-back process for a crude cargo from deal capture to final settlement — where are the key operational risk points?
- ›How do you ensure contractual and group assurance obligations are met simultaneously when managing a high-volume trading bench?
- ›Describe your experience interfacing with Tax and Commodity Risk functions on operational matters — what data or documentation did you typically need to provide?
- ›How have you used root cause analysis methodologies such as Five Whys to investigate and resolve operational control failures?
- ›What systems or tools have you used for cargo nomination, voyage operations, and inventory tracking in a supply and trading environment?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to manage a complex operational scenario under time pressure — what was your approach and what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where you identified a gap in your team's technical capability and took steps to address it through training or knowledge sharing.
- ›Give an example of when you had to escalate a COLT or control event to senior leadership — how did you handle the communication and follow-up actions?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to build and maintain relationships across multiple functions (e.g. front office, Tax, Risk) to deliver an operational outcome.
- ›Describe a situation where you led a new business activity or onboarding process — what challenges did you face and how did you ensure operational readiness?
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Tell me about a time you had to manage a complex operational scenario under time pressure — what was your approach and what was the outcome?
Describe a situation where you identified a gap in your team's technical capability and took steps to address it through training or knowledge sharing.