P&C Partner at BP in United States of America - Texas - Houston

P&C Partner

Location: United States of America - Texas - Houston · This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

The P&C Partner for Gas & Power Trading Americas (GPTA) provides commercially grounded people partnership to US-based leaders and teams. The role translates business priorities into practical people actions that enable performance, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and support a compliant, inclusive, and high-performing culture.

Working closely with the VP P&C, this role supports day-to-day advisory needs, employee relations, leader mentor, talent priorities, reward activity, and critical employee lifecycle moments. The role ensures P&C delivery is aligned with US employment requirements, bp policy, and established P&C practices.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Business Partnering

• Partner with US GPTA leaders to translate business priorities, market dynamics, and workforce needs into a practical people plan.
• Provide insight and constructive challenge on organization design, capability, talent, engagement, performance, and culture.
• Coach leaders through business change, team effectiveness, inclusion, and high-performance expectations.

US P&C Advisory, Compliance, and Risk Management

• Provide compliant and practical P&C advice aligned with US employment requirements, bp policy, and established P&C processes.
• Advise leaders on employee relations, performance concerns, investigations, accommodations, separations, and other critical people matters in partnership with Legal, Ethics & Compliance, and P&C Operations.
• Ensure ER cases and manager queries are documented, raised, and managed with appropriate confidentiality and process discipline.
• Support duty of care, wellbeing, and workplace issue escalation where required.

Talent, Capability, and Organizational Effectiveness

• Build a solid understanding of GPTA’s US business, workforce risks, and capability needs.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition COE and business leaders to attract, assess, select, and retain talent for US roles.
• Support talent planning, succession, development, retention, and targeted capability-building interventions.

Performance, Reward, Engagement, and Ways of Working

• Support performance management, reward and recognition, engagement, and leader coaching to enable a high-performance culture.
• Partner with Reward and P&C teams on annual and in-year reward activity for US employees.
• Find opportunities to simplify work, improve leader and employee experience, and strengthen consistency across P&C delivery.

Experience & Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience across People & Culture fields in commercial, operational, or performance-driven environments.
• Experience partnering with leaders in complex organizations and influencing business priorities.
• Solid understanding of US employee relations practices, employment compliance considerations, and people-related business risk.
• Demonstrated capability in talent management, succession, organizational effectiveness, change management, and performance enablement.
• Experience in fast-paced commercial, trading, energy, or similarly complex environments strongly preferred.
• Strong partner management, business judgment, discretion, and ability to navigate ambiguity with pace.

Education (Preferred)

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field preferred.
• Advanced degree or professional HR certification desirable.

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering 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 ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% 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:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Culture and behaviour change, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Employee and labour relations (Inactive), Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Facilitation, Global Perspective, Influencing, Job Design, Leadership Assessment, Leading transformation, Managing change, Managing workforce concerns, Microsoft Excel {+ 12 more}

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