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Entity:

Gas & Low Carbon Energy

Job Family Group:

Communications & External Affairs Group

Job Description:

We are seeking an Employee Communications Manager who will be a part of our US Communications team in US C&EA.

This leadership role on the Business Communications team will be based in Houston, Texas, which boasts bp’s largest concentration of employees worldwide.

The role will focus on:

+ **Executive engagement:** The candidate will work extensively with bp America’s senior leadership, and supports executive communications with thought leadership content for a range of executives, including head of country (US) and head of C&EA Americas.

+ **Employee engagement and campus communications:** Leading the planning and delivery of strategic, innovative, and creative communication campaigns with a goal of increasing employee engagement across the US and maintaining bp’s strong culture. By using our various communications channels, the candidate will provide timely updates to employees, focusing on Houston & Chicago as main employee hubs.

+ **Benefits communications:** Leading the development and implementation of a robust year-round Benefits communications campaign – highlighting bp’s Wellbeing program and benefits offers, with a goal of increasing participation and engagement across the US.

+ Beyond an understanding of the current and emerging communications channels, the successful candidate will be:

+ _detail oriented:_ ensuring all messages are accurate and aligned to group messaging where appropriate

+ _creative:_ seeking new opportunities that deliver our communications are engaging and efficient in delivery.

+ _collaborative_ : ability to consistently work across US C&EA to ensure they are understanding business developments and spotting opportunities to tell bp’s story

+ Must bring experience handling multiple major projects simultaneously while remaining focused on long-term priorities.

Key Accountabilities:

+ **Communications leadership** : Deliver strategic, innovative and creative communication campaigns spanning multiple channels that support nationwide employee engagement, with a focus on Houston & Chicago facilities primarily.

+ **Guiding strategy** : Maintains a focus on the communications strategy and working across teams to develop content – focusing on clearly-defined objectives that underpin the overall US Communications strategy.

+ **Executive content:** Engaging senior leadership, including the executive team, to ensure their consistent presence among key internal partners.

+ **Messaging:** Ensure clear and consistent messages reaches targeted audiences (employees, contractors etc) on all campaigns.

+ **Measurement:** Measuring outcomes to ensure impact and adjusting when necessary

+ **Managing** **budget** : Maintains detailed focus on overall (Benefits comms) budget, outstanding resources, how to establish efficiencies and eliminate superfluous spending.

Education:

+ A bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Job Requirements:

+ Professional track record in a large organization and evidence of leading projects from concept to completion using a number of tools and solutions.

+ Experience leading and developing a team

+ Conceptual thinker who can sell a story and thrives on creative solutions

+ Experience partnering with executive team members on internal communications

+ Excellent coordination, communication, project management and networking skills; proven analytical, problem solving and budget management skills.

+ Must be able to manage multiple partner’s interests and needs, with an ability to influence senior leadership and encourage others.

+ Outstanding writing, editing and oral communication skills.

+ Very strong organizational skills and the ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.

Desirable Criteria:

+ Experience in the energy industry is a plus but not a requirement

+ Collaborative mentality – a natural ability to work across businesses and through various teams within Communications and External Affairs.

+ Enjoys and has the capability for working with a global and diverse organization

+ Consistently meets high standard of quality, performance, and productivity

+ Produce desired results in a timely and highly proficient manner without supervision

+ Teammate in immediate work group as well as across the organization

+ Demonstrate absolute discretion in handling confidential data

+ Seeks additional responsibilities and uses innovation to improve job knowledge and procedures.

+ Demands professional excellence of self and takes personal accountability for individual and team work product

+ Establishes strong credibility with business partners, collaborators.

+ Strong Interpersonal skills

+ Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

+ Proactive and forward thinking.

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious 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 ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html ) 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.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% 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:

Advocacy, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Brand visual standards, Campaigning, Channel Management, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Content Design, Creating and measuring impact, Crisis Communications, Digital Communication, Digital fluency, Employee Engagement, Influencing, Issues and Policy Management, Listening, Market Trends, Performance Consulting, Presenting, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Writing skills

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.