Entity:
Trading & Shipping
Job Family Group:
Supply & Trading Group
Job Description:
Trading & Shipping (T&S) has one of the world’s most developed commodity trading business with its’ distinctive expertise in trading, optimizing flows, managing price risk and developing customer solutions.
Organized into Global Commodity books, T&S Global Oil has supply-trading teams in four regional hubs - Chicago, Houston, London and Singapore.
T&S focus is to support BP Group assets and to participate in major trade flows or hubs where supply-trading opportunities could be material. A major proportion of T&S As Pac business comprises third party and entrepreneurial activities / trades.

T&S Singapore office covers the Asia Pacific region ranging from Southeast Asia to Middle East, China and Pacific (As Pac). To support the business, T&S has set a few additional regional offices based in China, Japan, Indonesia, India and the UAE.

For our Singapore office, we are looking to hire an experienced LPG trader.

You will be helping to drive commercial strategy for the trading desk in the Aspac region by; originating new relationships & deals, executing trades, participating in various tenders and working closely with the other regional & global trading teams.

Key accountabilities:

managing and building: key LPG relationships (existing & new), partnerships & trading flows for the ASPAC region together with the lead LPG trader and wider LPG team
looking for trade optimization opportunities
executing physical & paper trading
be accountable for the book Pn L delivery plan
setting up strategic objectives for the longer-term business growth in the region
analysing the LPG markets to identify the needs of customers and suppliers & propose strategic partnership opportunities

Education and Key requirements:

Degree in a business, commercial or engineering discipline
5 years of min trading experience with relevant markets & proven successful track record in delivering PNL, leading commercial strategies
Strong knowledge of oil & petrochemical markets (feedstocks, aromatics, olefins) and market fundamentals
Ability to interrogate, understand and feedback on analytics
Ability to identify & calculate arbitrage economics
Established commercial network within Aspac region in LPG markets
Strong entrepreneurial bias – ability and enthusiasm to identify and develop new business and deals independently (with support of wider team capability as required)
Understanding of paper derivative instruments for managing physical exposure
Knowledge of petrochemicals sales, operations, logistics & contracts
Understanding broader risks of trading & its impacts on the company

Why join us?
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, paid parental leave policy 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 50% 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, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Authenticity, Communication, Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation, Decision Making, Digital Automation, Digital Collaboration, Digital Communication, Digital fluency, Digital Visualization, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Exposure Management, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Listening, Market Knowledge, Negotiating value, Negotiation planning and preparation, Presenting, Statistics, Strategic Thinking {+ 5 more}
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