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As part of a global team of learning professionals and SMEs, the role of Commercial Learning Advisor focuses on learning design, organisation and coordination of learning delivery, marketing of learning opportunities, and maximising data to help manage the development of key learning cohorts of commercial staff such as potential traders, originators and business developers across bp.

The role is expected to work with key business stakeholders to help identify skill gaps and opportunities, helping to set strategic direction and recommending key interventions and improvements, ensuring the organisation remains competitive.

This global role requiring strong collaboration with senior leaders in business areas and across HR teams. It is critical for ensuring the organization remains competitive by developing a workforce equipped with the skills vital to drive performance and meet future business challenges.

This role is responsible for driving the development, coordination and execution of learning, skills management strategies and interventions, and programmes that align with bp’s business and talent goals.

Accountabilities :

• Enables access to solutions by creating and maintaining learning plans in systems, marketing learning and community building.

• Advocates for the learning infrastructure to drive adoption, usage, and business impact.

• Assists the team in global delivery planning, including ensuring courses are represented in the learning infrastructure, and learning calendars are accurately represented in communication with stakeholders and learners

• Understands the strategic workforce and skill development context for their area of responsibility and how this connects to common priorities across bp to ensure solutions deliver maximum value, including contributing the development of skill building strategies.

• Proposes solutions and documents to demonstrate solution value and impact to enable robust prioritization conversations, including evidence based on data.

• Builds strong working relationships to ensure learning solutions developed and executed meet needs by creating an effective atmosphere for collaboration between subject matter experts, commercial business stakeholders, and the learning design excellence team.

• Solves problems and stewards solutions through to deployment.

• Engages the audience; collects, analyses, and interprets data on targets such as simplicity, usefulness, skill proficiency and application, confidence and behaviour change using bp recommended tools.

• Measures ‘needle’ shifts and performance outcomes, through formal and informal data collections and insights.

• Uses data insights and foresights to recommend changes to ensure performance outcomes are achieved and solutions are refined to increase impact and efficiency.

Required qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in learning psychology, organizational development, education, or related field.

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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Economics, Trading, Data Science, Data Management, Statistics, Downstream/Upstream commercial activity, or a related field.

Skills

Skills analysis, mapping and development; learning and development knowledge; project management; growth mindset; ‘getting things done’; marketing learning; creating and measuring impact; learning application and behavioural change; people data knowledge; data analysis, visualization and interpretation; problem solving; collaboration; creativity and innovation; communication, influencing; commercial acumen.

Managing change; psychological safety; continuous learning; legal and regulatory environment and compliance; continuous improvement; analytical thinking; agility core practices; resilience; teamwork; customer centric thinking.

Experience

Proven experience in complex organizations, specifically Talent, skills management, performance management or workforce planning in large matrix organizations or applicable industry experience.

Proven experience working in a commercial role is desirable, ideally on a trading floor or in a finance or business development context.

Demonstrated ability advising, coaching, and influencing senior executives preferred.

Experience working with data, in database design, data visualisation and interpretation and/or statistical inference, is desirable. Experience with the Office 365 suite, particularly SharePoint and PowerBI, is desirable.

Proven ability to work well in cross functional and global teams to deliver excellent learning & skills solutions with a culture of continuous improvement.

Technical

Technical expertise in trading, origination, analytics or commercial operations is preferred.

Ideally, has conducted skills gap analyses and develops tailored capability-building roadmaps.

Has designed and implemented learning solutions within large complex organizations, with demonstrated increase in learner satisfaction and measurable skill improvement.

Defined key performance indicators (critical metrics) for learning initiatives and tracks impact, demonstrating improvement in application of skills on the job.

Demonstrated development and execution of data-driven learning engagement campaigns, increasing learner participation by through targeted communication strategies.

Has demonstrated continual use of people, HR and learning analytics tools to track workforce capability trends, providing insights that influence learning and development decisions.

Regular ongoing exposure to standard learning infrastructure commonly deployed in large organisations, such as Degreed and/or Cornerstone, is desirable.

Experience with database design, data visualisation tools (such as PowerBI), statistical inference is desirable. Coding experience in Python is also desirable but not required.

Understands current trends in skills and learning, technology, and the role of AI in impactful learning solutions.

Behavioural

Applies structured problem-solving techniques to identify and resolve sophisticated learning and development challenges that have financial impact.

Has been responsible for innovative learning solutions within a corporate environment that improve engagement scores across a skill area or department.

Has designed learning solutions in partnership with stakeholders within a corporate setting, deeply understanding core needs and demonstrating the business impact of learning interventions.

Implements practices that enhance team psychological safety in global teams within the learning and development context.

Supports delivery through agile methodology and tools. Demonstrates commitment to their own development and continual learning, championing knowledge-sharing initiatives beyond their own work portfolio.

Internal (i.e. within bp) key relationships:

• Liaise with SMEs in business development and commercial and trading.

• Work with Learning program coordinators and learning infrastructure teams to ensure learning solutions are operationalized effectively.

• Work with HR partnering teams on ensuring alignment between talent management, recruitment, and employee engagement strategies.

• Working as part of cross-functional project teams for strategic planning, and coaching/inspiring others on skills and learning processes in bp.

• IT and digital teams: collaborating to implement digital tools and technologies that support skills tracking and development.

External (i.e. outside of bp) key relationships:

• Vendors: helps maintain the relationship between bp and vendors to ensure vendors deliver against agreed contracts.

• Industry Experts and external organizations - seek and use external insights, standard methodology and emerging trends in skills and learning solutions.

Why Join our team?

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 exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive 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. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now

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