Intelligence Manager

Job Profile SummaryAbout the role:

We have an opportunity for an experienced Business Intelligence Manager to join our Intelligence & International Advisory team in Sunbury. The Intelligence Manager will serve as a key point of engagement for the BI team and BPs London-based commercial and legal teams, helping the BI team to better understand and anticipate intelligence requirements and serving as a local liaison for intelligence queries and briefings.

Our Business Intelligence (BI) team identifies risk, finds opportunity and maximizes value for BP through the delivery of actionable intelligence relevant to major commercial activity. The Intelligence Manager plays an integral role in this process by managing the collection of intelligence, analyzing, and presenting deeply buried information, developing key internal and external relationships, and providing guidance and leadership to junior team members.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Under the direction of the Senior Intelligence Manager, serve as a principal point of intelligence accountability for some of BPs most significant commercial deals. Execute operations and provide intelligence-driven judgements which have impact that scales across the BP Group.
• Managing dynamic collection, tailored analysis, and regular written reporting on a range of issues affecting major commercial activity (both risk and opportunity).
• Supporting new market entry activity (stakeholder mapping, reporting on relevant commercial and political developments, identification of political, security, regulatory, and operational risk) and new commercial partner selection (reputational, ethical, financial, sanctions and political risk).
• Developing tailored collection strategies for new projects involving a dynamic set of collection mechanisms, including HUMINT and OSINT.
• Overseeing intelligence projects from start to finish, applying each phase of the intelligence cycle to produce consistently professional intelligence products.
• Conducting extensive open-source intelligence collection utilizing a wide range of intelligence tools and social media.
• Interrogate large volumes of data to support I&IAs analytic judgments. Identify and exploit global sources of information including databases, local and foreign-language media and academic journals, internet sources and public records.
• Identifying and exploit various forms of both popular and obscure social media for use in finished intelligence reporting.
• Developing and executing tailored collection strategies for new intelligence projects involving a dynamic set of collection mechanisms, including HUMINT.
• Liaising with I&IAs diverse global network of intelligence providers to support bespoke intelligence projects. Identify and vet new intelligence providers to support emerging strategic goals of the company.
• Drafting informative and succinct intelligence reports detailing I&IAs collection findings and analysis.
• Synthesizing data into graphic analyses such as link charts, timelines and spreadsheets to assist with the presentation of complex issues.

Job AdvertYour experience will include:

• 7 - 10 years experience managing the intelligence cycle in a professional setting (establishing requirements, collecting raw intelligence, conducting analysis, briefing findings to customers).
• Experience planning and executing human-source and open-source intelligence collection operations, preferably in a government setting.
• Experience briefing intelligence findings to senior customers and understanding of the role intelligence plays in guiding strategic decision-making.
• Understanding of the application of intelligence methods to complex commercial challenges, assessing risk against business imperatives, and informing commercial strategic decision-making.
• Familiarity with the drivers of ethical, reputational, political and other major risks associated with new business activities in underdeveloped and potentially opaque markets.
• Experience using open-source tools to gather deeply buried information affecting commercial risk and opportunity.
• Familiarity with and experience using open-source tools which help uncover complex corporate structures, adverse media, political connectivity, and sanctions and regulatory risks associated with potential BP commercial partners and business opportunities.
• Knowledge of global/country politics and international affairs. Ability to apply a core set of research and analysis skills to an extremely diverse range of geographies and issues.
• Must possess strong research skills, as well as excellent written and oral communication skills. Must be a highly professional and credible interlocutor with senior executives. Sound judgment is required, as well as the ability to parse most relevant information from large volumes of data.

Why join us?

Benefits include an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to enable you to craft your own career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and others. In this role you will feel empowered to act as a key decision maker and influencer.

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, neuro diversity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We operate a 60/40% hybrid model encompassing office, remote home working and a flexible working policy to offer work life balance.
EntityRegions, Cities & Solutions
Job Family GroupHSSE Group
Relocation availableNo
Travel requiredYes - up to 25%
Time TypeFull time
CountryUnited Kingdom
About BPREGIONS, CORPORATES & SOLUTIONS

Being part of regions, corporates and solutions (RC&S) means bringing together the best of bp to build enduring relationships with some of the biggest corporations around the world. Together we can provide innovative, integrated and decarbonised energy solutions at scale to help the world reach net zero and improve peoples lives.

Working within RC&S you will be part of a wider team that is:

providing a single 'face' and a joined-up approach to managing key political, business, community and country stakeholders working closely with our other bp entities
delivering intelligence, security, crisis management and geopolitical insights across all of our businesses
driving excellence and consistency in how we establish and manage all of our non-operated joint ventures (NOJVs)
identifying and delivering new integrated energy solutions to help decarbonise countries, cities and corporations by bringing together capabilities, products and services across our platform and with our strategic partners, creating value greater than the sum of its parts
Legal disclaimerWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic background, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations.