Responsible for supporting the team with market analysis and research using developing analytical skills, providing administrative support and assisting the effective and timely communication of results to team members.Entity:
Customers & Products

Job Family Group:
Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

Role Synopsys

Our early careers programme is designed to support transition from university to discipline professional and provides a framework to support building effectiveness skills. The programme will follow a structured development offer to accelerate the acquisition of foundational skills, experience, knowledge, and application in the business world. This role will form part of the Midstream organisation which focuses on the optimised sourcing and primary distribution of liquid fuels for bp Southern Africa's value chain.

Key Accountabilities and Development milestones

• Demand Planning and Performance:
  
  
  • Coordinate and participate in below-the-line supply & demand planning processes, building up to Midstream functional review, including daily optimisation forums, weekly demand planning forum, weekly stocks meeting and monthly operational plan session
  • Providing input into organisation working capital forecasting (plan, latest estimate - LE, actuals)
  • Support in setting of supply-demand balance for different planning horizons including weekly/in-month, 3-month view, 12-24-month plan
  • Conducting review of optimum variable average stock (OVAS)
  • Any other supply demand adhoc work including assisting with view of supply-demand balances for project work
  • Provide support to Midstream commercial analyst for demand-supply related analyses
• Key Account Management (KAM):
  
  
  • Support KAM in managing the interface between the depot, stocks, supply & logistics on day-to-day operational delivery.
  • Support KAM on month end reporting deliverables
  • Support KAM in the strategic deliveries, including Developing offers in line with customer segmentation requirements for the various sectors (Mining, Agriculture, Fleet) and turbo charge strategy:
    
    
    • Understanding the value drivers and support detailed demand tracking
    • Support KAM to ensure integrated commercial optimisation

Essential Criteria and/or Qualification:

• An Honours degree/BTech Honours/4th Year or higher in Supply Chain, Economics or Industrial Engineering
• Minimum final year aggregate of 65% or 2.1 GPA
• Knowledge of current discipline, specific trends, theories/approaches, and benchmarks
• Little or no professional work experience
• Must have graduated in 2021, 2022 or 2023

Travel Requirement
No travel is 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:
Agreements and negotiations, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Continuous Learning, Customer promise execution, Customer service delivery excellence, Deal modelling and valuation, Developing and implementing strategy, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Influencing, Internal alignment, Listening, Loyalty Management, Marketing strategy and programmes, Negotiating value, Negotiation planning and preparation, Partner relationship management, Presenting, Supply Chain, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Trends {+ 1 more}

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 disabilities may request a reasonable 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 accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

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.