Advisor - Power and Renewables

In 2020, bp announced a new purpose, underpinned by a new set of aims and a new strategy. Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet; we want to help the world reach net zero and improve people’s lives. Our new strategy will see us pivot from being an international oil company to an integrated energy company. Within this strategy, we announced ambitious targets, many associated with the power sector, including a target to develop 50GW of renewable power by 2030. This role is key to helping bp delivering on its ambition.

Within the Strategy & Sustainability entity, this is a high profile role in the Economic and Energy Insights (EEI) team. The EEI team is relatively small (~20 people) yet highly prominent in bp – a multi-disciplinary team of economists, engineers and scientists responsible for providing integrated analysis of the global energy system, the energy transition, and the evolving nature of the energy system as it moves to net zero. The main focus of the role is to provide thought leadership, underpinned by original analysis and modelling, on the power sector through the energy transition – including how it relates to different demand sectors (industry, transport, and buildings) and fuels (coal, gas, renewables, etc.)

This role will suit a well-rounded, world-class analyst – either an economist with applied and deep experience on power and/or renewables, or an analyst with an energy engineering/scientist background and with experience in economic analysis and thinking. It will involve leading analysis and insight activities in the EEI team, including: the power model for the bp Energy Outlook; analysis underpinning the bp Statistical Review of World Energy; techno-economic modelling on solar PV, onshore wind, offshore wind, and gas generation technologies; analysis of power sector value chains; analysis of power network and transmission developments; regional and country power market analysis; etc.

Reporting to the Head of Power and Renewables, you will be involved in a diverse range of projects. The role will require working in close collaboration with other team members and external stakeholders - most of the job accountabilities are shared across team members.

Strategy & Sustainability

Finance Group

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STRATEGY & SUSTAINABILITY

If you’re a sustainability focused strategic thinker, this could be for you: The purpose of strategy & sustainability is to define a value-adding, sustainability-led strategic ‎direction for us to deliver on our ambition of reimagining energy for people and our planet. Working within S&S, you will be embedded in the centre of the organisation bringing together strategy, sustainability and ‎capital allocation into a group-wide framework and promoting ethics and compliance across the ‎organisation.

Join us and help us achieve our purpose through:‎

A modern, dynamic and collaborative approach to strategy, sustainability and capital allocation– ‎you will work with the businesses, finance and the broad organisation to support the ‎delivery of our ambition, our aims and our financial aspirations. Together we will help frame and make the ‎optimal trade-offs and choices for us.

A lens on sustainability as a competitive advantage– you will drive sustainability to unleash new ‎business opportunities, growth and value to us.‎

Proprietary bp insights– you will focus on developing a distinctive understanding of global ‎economics, energy markets, customer needs and competitors to support our businesses and ‎strategy.‎

Proactive shaping of external policy– you will define where our company stands on matters of public policy – ‎in line with our aims – as well as how we can contribute to proactively shape the external ‎environment across regions.‎

Strategic oversight of our carbon management activities– you will coordinate and drive progress ‎on our net zero ambition and aims.‎

Effective ethics and compliance as a driver of organisational and business sustainability– you will ‎support our bp business groups and other entities in promoting an ethical culture and work ‎environment, and effective compliance risk management.‎

Enabling our company and its businesses to achieve their goals– where our organisation holds expertise, we will ‎use it collaboratively and constructively.

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