Convenience Trading & Insights Specialist

'Mobility & convenience (M&C) Europe is a fuels convenience retail business with a network of around 6,000 bp and Aral branded retail sites across eight markets, serving millions of customers every day. Our purpose is simple : we provide energy to keep people moving – whether through fuel, coffee, food and EV charging. And our vision is to be the first choice for our customers. Through our strategy of building leading market positions, developing winning retail sites and offering compelling, locally tailored propositions we are delivering value to bp, our shareholders and our customers. Our teams are developing a mindset that is safe, customer-focused, commercially sharp and performance-driven – empowered to make every transaction count.'

Let Me Tell You About The Role

As a member of the Europe Trading Optimisation Team, you will be working for the European Trading & Analytics Manager who is based in the UK. You will be providing the commercial teams across our European markets with customer and financial analytics and insights to drive decision making.

You will analyse both internal and external data, market trends and performance metrics to ensure a deep understanding of the commercial implications and success of new trading offers introduced across our markets.

The role involves significant virtual collaboration with customers across regions.

What You Will Deliver

• Deliver a consistent approach to bp analytics and insight principles across Europe, and support deployment in country / cluster
• Deliver and maintain best in class tools and systems to ensure that all Trading decision-making is driven by the right data and insights.
• Develop and maintain dashboards to make analytics digestible and usable in county / cluster
• Support internal departments (PPM, Finance & F&M) to develop and ensure consistence in reporting tools, KPI's and business insights across all markets and clusters.
• Support development of retail pricing and promotional toolkits, working closely with internal and external parties (e.g. Accenture)
• Assist in supporting and building analytical fluency within the convenience trading teams.
• Support delivery of annual SGM targets, working closely with country / cluster Trading Managers in the production of key insights and trading trends.
• Build models and run scenarios to support revenue growth and maximise commercial potential of offers
• Provide financial evaluation of offers – quantify benefits and costs
• Support FM development, providing data to finance teams to ensure that strong data-backed assumptions inform ROI discussions
• Provide global, regional and local macro trend insights to ensure bp's convenience offers meet our customer's current and future needs
• Fully utilise data and market-trend platforms (e.g. internal reporting, external suppliers and partners, SAP, ACI, IGD, Neilson, CTP, trade press), both existing and new, to report key insights

What You Will Need To Be Successful

Education

Experience

Skills & Competencies

Retail Eye For Business and understanding of Retail Financial Data (GAAP & EEM)

Strong statistical analysis and modelling skills, especially using Python

High proficiency in PowerQuery, PowerBI, DAX, and Excel

Ability to interrogate and present data clearly and effectively

Diligent with strong quantitative and qualitative analysis capabilities

Excellent communication and influencing skills across diverse teams

Highly organised with a bias for planning and prioritisation

Comfortable handling large volumes of data and working in fast-changing environments

Strong relationship management and ability to work collaboratively

Note : Occasional travel to Europe may be required but will not be frequent (maximum 2-3 times per year, but may be zero)

You will work with

This role reports to the European Trading Analytics and Insights Manager and will work closely with the Trading Optimisation Team which you will be part of along with other colleagues in the CoE (Centre of Expertise) including Partnerships and Offer, Supply Chain and other members of the wider Trading Teams across Europe.

Why join bp

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging 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 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.

Skills Required

Statistical Analysis, Modelling, Powerbi, Excel, Dax, Python