Network Planning Advisor

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Retail Group

Job Description:

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Network Planning Advisor to join our Network and Portfolio Management Team. The Network Planning Advisor is a highly analytical role responsible for supporting the Portfolio Manager in optimizing bp’s retail networks through data-driven insights. The role focuses on evaluating network performance, identifying value opportunities, and translating analysis into clear, actionable site and portfolio plans.

With a primary emphasis on capital-light growth, the Advisor applies financial, geographic, and competitive analysis to recommend channel shifts, dealer strategies, and portfolio rationalization actions that enhance returns. By bringing analytical discipline and transparency to network decisions, the role directly supports bp’s broader strategy of improving capital efficiency, strengthening portfolio quality, and delivering sustainable, high-return growth.

Key Accountabilities:

• Execute real estate strategies aligned to long-term business objectives, focusing on portfolio optimization, asset performance, and lifecycle management.
• Structured, insight-led plans that prioritize value creation and are aligned to regional strategies.
• Identification and recommendation of channel shifts, dealer strategies, and rationalization actions to improve returns
• Clear, geographically grounded guidance on where to grow, reposition, or divest to maximize portfolio value.
• Ongoing monitoring of network actions to ensure delivery against plan, with clear visibility of progress and risks.
• Use application of standardized tools and methodologies to strengthen decision quality and comparability across portfolios.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Deliver clear, data-driven assessments of site and portfolio performance, translating complex analysis into actionable recommendations.
• Build and maintain robust network plans and site action plans that prioritize capital-light value creation and align with regional strategies ensuring the right sites are part of our network.
• Identify opportunities to improve returns through channel of trade shifts, dealer model optimization, and targeted portfolio rationalization.
• Provide analytically grounded recommendations on where to grow, reposition, or exit, focusing on low-capital, high-return opportunities.
• Monitor execution of site actions and network initiatives, ensuring transparency, accountability, and alignment across stakeholders.
• Apply consistent tools and methodologies to improve the quality, comparability, and impact of network planning decisions.
• Strong critical thinking skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to portfolio performance and asset optimization.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and cross-functional partnership capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Real Estate, or a related field.

Key Partners:

The team consists of Network and Portfolio Managers in close partnership with the Network & Analytics team, collaborating daily with Sales, Operations, Legal, Finance, Business Investment, Design, Construction, and external real estate partners.

At bp we embrace a servant team culture focusing on empowering individuals and fostering collaboration to achieve common goals. Key selling points include:

1. Empowerment: Team members feel valued and motivated as they are encouraged to take initiative and contribute ideas, leading to higher job satisfaction and engagement.

2. Collaboration: Open communication and mutual respect promote a sense of belonging, enhancing teamwork and leading to innovative solutions.

3. Customer Focus (internal and external): By prioritizing the needs of others, both internally and externally, teams can provide exceptional service, improving client relationships and satisfaction.

4. Personal Growth: A commitment to individual development ensures team members continuously improve their skills, benefiting both the individual and the organization.

5. Resilience: A servant leadership approach fosters a supportive environment, enabling teams to navigate challenges more effectively and adapt to change.

6. Strong Ethics: This culture emphasizes integrity and accountability, building trust within the team and with clients, which can enhance the organization's reputation.

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.

How much do we pay (Base)? $75,000 - $139,000 *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 – 240 hours of vacation per year for full times employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at benefits@bp. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more at benefits@bp.

We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits may include a pension for eligible employees. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp.

As part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Acquisitions and divestments, Acquisitions and divestments, Agility core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital Fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Leading transformation, market, Negotiation planning and preparation, Offer and product knowledge, Partner relationship management, Project Management, Retail standards and procedures {+ 7 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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.