Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Strategic Planning & Business Development Group

Job Description:

About the Role:

The Sr. Novel feedstock Commercial Manager will report to VP Novel feedstocks and will be an expert in agriculture value chain and responsible for negotiation and execution of specific deals.

The person would have an advanced degree in Agriculture, industry and consulting experience across seed development, technology licensing, seed marketing, grain logistics, distribution, and crushing.

The person in role will need to build and maintain strong interfaces within bp but also externally. The job requires strong agriculture expertise and commercial skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support with the structing, negotiation and execution of sophisticated deal structures across ag/bio interface

• Build bp’s access to regenerative agriculture to monetize the carbon benefits e.g., offsets and low CI fuels

• evaluate and invest in transformation options including technology licensing and valuation

• Anticipate and manage non-technical (including legislative, regulatory, reputational, political and social) risks and develop appropriate mitigations

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across bp in an agile way or jointly with partners

• Find opportunities to extract higher unit economics from interface of ag/bio value chain

• Support grower adoption, incentives, crushing logistics, CI pathways

• Maintain active pipeline of third-party opportunities.

Role Requirements:

• Advanced degree in Agriculture

• Very commercial, pro-active and driven with experience in Agricultural value chains

• Direct experience working in agricultural value chain across following areas:

• Seed development, distribution

• Go-to-market to farmers

• Grain aggregation, logistics and crushing

• Experience in deal structuring, deal management, negotiations

• Exposure to the biofuels value chain and good understanding of biofuel techno-economics

• Experience in strategy consulting shop a huge plus (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain)

• Strategic thinker with ability to problem tackle sophisticated and abstract topics

• Ability to prioritise and respond to dynamic situations and changing policy landscape

• Strong teammate and excellent interpersonal skills

• Confident in engaging senior external & internal collaborators

Considering Joining bp?

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. bp is 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, excellent retirement benefits, and more!

Travel Requirement

Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is fully remote

Skills:

Acquisitions and divestments, Acquisitions and divestments, Agreements and negotiations, Analytics, Commercial Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Communication, Contractual risk management, Data visualization and interpretation, Deal structuring, Decision Making, Developing and implementing strategy, Economic evaluation methodology, Economic modelling, Financial Analysis, Financial Modelling, Influencing, Investment appraisal, Joint Venture Structuring, Long Term Planning, Managing change, Market Analysis, Project and programme management, Risk Management, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding {+ 2 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

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