P&C Senior Advisor

Why join bp at Cherry Point? At bp, our people are central to delivering safe, reliable operations and to achieving our ambition of reimagining energy for people and our planet. As a People & Culture Senior Advisor at Cherry Point Refinery, you will play a hands-on, influential role supporting leaders and employees at one of bp’s largest and most complex operational sites. This is an opportunity to make a real, visible impact—partnering with leaders, supporting frontline teams, and shaping an inclusive, high-performance workplace in a dynamic refinery environment.

As a People & Culture Senior Advisor, you will work closely with leaders across Cherry Point to deliver practical, people-focused solutions aligned with business priorities and bp values. You will advise, coach, and influence leaders on employee lifecycle decisions, proactively manage employee relations matters, and help maintain a positive and engaged workforce. Working as part of bp’s integrated People & Culture team—alongside P&C Services and Centers of Excellence—you will help translate bp’s people strategy into meaningful outcomes at the site level.

Responsibilities

• Develops a deep understanding of the business they support and focuses on driving and delivering organizational change initiatives as appropriate.
• Drives talent management initiatives for the business they support, enabling people to build the capabilities our business values, and ensuring implementation of focused talent management processes that are aligned to business priorities and objectives, developing their impact on organizational effectiveness.
• Enables a compliant and high-performance culture through aligned performance management, reward and recognition frameworks, managing the delivery of integrated reward/recognition solutions to the business and overseeing the annual reward process.
• Leverages standard methodologies and identifies efficiencies and opportunities for alliances across entities based on deep experience delivering agile projects across a variety of businesses across bp.
• Ensures personal and team compliance with the function's safety and ethics rules and processes, follows procedures, and provides an exemplary display of BP's Who we Are framework.
• Delivers people & culture advisory support to leaders and facilitates resolution of everyday queries and coaching to drive engagement, pre-empting and resolving employee relations (ER) cases and ensuring that inclusion is the foundation of the business people plan and supported throughout all people management activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Human Resources or other relevant field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into business recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build relationships with stakeholders across different levels of an organization.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Interest in talent management, organizational effectiveness, employee relations, and workforce planning.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed and collaborative business environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Human Resources, employee relations, organizational development, or business operations.
• Experience working in a large multi-national organization.
• Exposure to manufacturing, energy, industrial, or other operational environments.
• Familiarity with employment laws, labor relations concepts, and workforce engagement practices.
• Professional HR certification (SHRM-CP, PHR, or equivalent) or interest in obtaining certification.

Benefits

• Flexible working options.
• Generous paid parental leave policy (up to 8 weeks for birth or adoption of a child).
• Excellent retirement benefits, including a 401k matching program and pension for eligible employees.
• Discretionary annual bonus program and long-term incentive program.
• Paid vacation ranging from 120 – 240 hours per year for full-time employees (60 - 240 hours for part-time employees).
• 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Life, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability insurance.

Pay

$80,000 - $120,000 base compensation.

Schedule

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.

Negligible travel should be expected with this role.

Relocation may be negotiable for this role.