Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function develops a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As part of 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, 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 you're ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you.

This purpose of the Solution Lead (SL) is to own and drive a portion of the People & Culture (P&C) Workday 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 P&C – 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 P&C 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 P&C
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 P&C 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 completing 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 P&C such as colleagues in I&E
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 Stakeholders to contribute to the resolution of technical, process, and business issues related to your part of the P&C solution
Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the functional and technical impacts of configuration and other decisions to stakeholder groups
Working within guidelines and professional standards, research and resolve 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 related subject area
5+ years of work experience in Workday Security certification (as SI or as Customer) desirable
Experience in building digital strategies and roadmaps
Experience in systems development and implementation
Experience in corporate-wide implementation of global systems and processes
Knowledge of the Workday Product including release approach and roadmap - Project management methodologies experience with ability to create/manage comprehensive project plans
Knowledge of P&C systems
Possesses/applies HR systems experience/judgment
Knowledge of technology trends
Leadership qualities
Experience working in both consulting/corporate environments would be a differentiator
Experience working in different industries especially in both Energy/Financial Services is beneficial.
HR certifications like GPHR, SPHR, CIPD level 7 are advantageous
Quality certifications like Six Sigma are desired but not mandatory

Technical:

Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision-making
Demonstrable 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 stakeholder management/change expertise

Behavioural:

Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision-making
Demonstrable 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 stakeholder management/change expertise
Ability to structure and convey complex messages and insights
Leadership with vision and ambition
Collaborative working style
Own your success
Think big
Effortless customer experiences
Digital first

Skills:

Technical Capability

Functional knowledge of Workday Security including user / role management, domain management, integration security and different security techniques such as intersection security groups.
Basic knowledge of corporate access and identity management products, for example, Saviynt, Salesforce, Service Now.
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 collaborate with business transformation including people, processes and data driven actions.

Business Capability

Demonstrable record of maintaining high quality Workday system security
Demonstrable record of compiling and leading audit conversations, data returns to internal and external audit teams.
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 process 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 standout colleague able to work successfully across organisational boundaries
Applies judgement and common sense - demonstrates good understanding of client's business and is able to apply sound judgement / wise counsel
Acts with integrity; role model of BP V&Bs to others in the function and business
Cultural fluency - able to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity

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 ambitious environment. We believe that 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.

Apply now!

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:

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.

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