Senior Intelligence Manager

Entity:
Technology

Job Family Group:
Business Support Group

Job Description:

bp's intelligence, security & crisis management (ISC) team delivers intelligence, security, crisis management and geopolitical insights across bp's businesses. bp's intelligence & international advisory team (I&IA) forms a critical component of ISC, helping the company to assess threat, measure risk, find opportunity and maximize value through delivery of strategic intelligence. I&IA's geopolitical intelligence team serves as ISC's expert resource for intelligence analysis and strategic assessment of geopolitical/security threats.

The Senior Intelligence Manager Americas will leverage their deep substantive knowledge of the Americas, as well as their deep technical expertise in analytic tradecraft, to have significant impact on some of the company's most complex and strategically significant decisions.

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, motivated by best-in-class insight and expertise. We're always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world's leading energy company!

Job Responsibilities:

• Hold bp's principal accountability for the company's strategic view of 'threats' in the Americas regions that would materially impact bp at the Group-level.
• Directly support the security risk process through the ownership of Baseline Threat Assessment process in the Unified Risk Picture (URP): anticipate, monitor and communicate changing threat environments.
• Provide both oral and written strategic intelligence assessments of geopolitical dynamics that have or the potential to have a material impact on bp to senior bp leaders and decision-makers.
• Support operational and tactical intelligence needs by: Facilitating third party tactical intelligence collection and production with the business security team; Proactively identify emerging issues; Responding to RFIs;
• Establish and maintain a broad range of senior-level relationships, inside bp and externally including Regional SVPs, Heads of Country, their Leadership Teams, and senior government officials, to: understand bp business priorities; anticipate and identify strategic intelligence requirements;
• Support regional business units by working with them on commercial planning and key decision points to ensure appropriate intelligence support is provided for decision making;
• Provide strategic and operational liaison and guidance to bp leaders, businesses and security and crisis management colleagues;
• Ensure regular information flows with peers, governments, academia and NGOs;
• Develop authoritative information sources and deepen subject matter expertise;
• dentify potential new information providers
  

Job Requirements:

• Deep substantive knowledge of the Americas, particularly Latin America (politics, history, culture, security, regional context)
• Substantive intelligence experience in the public and/or private sectors. Specifically, understanding of the intelligence cycle and its application in a commercial environment.
• Significant training and professional experience in analytic tradecraft sufficient to have established deep technical expertise.
• Deep knowledge of international affairs
• Ability to quickly forge productive relationships and build networks at all levels, internally and externally.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Spanish language ability an advantage.
• Writes quickly, concisely, and with impact.
• Briefs effectively, with polish and poise.
• Examines issues for second and third order implications to bp.
• Works independently in a dispersed virtual team structure.
• Experience with open source intelligence tools and techniques.
• Experience with mapping and/or intelligence/information management systems
  

Preferred Skills:

• Formal certifications in intelligence collection, collection management, intelligence analysis, or other intelligence disciplines from a government agency.
• Foreign languages; international work and travel, especially regional posting(s).
  

Why join bp

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, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Travel Requirement
Negligible 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:

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