Graduate programmes
Whether you’re involved in commercial deal making, analyzing markets or moving energy all over the world - you’ll be part of a company committed to growing our business – and your career
Overview
bp Singapore offers graduate opportunities in the fascinating world of trading and shipping, finance and risk as well as innovation and engineering.
Our graduate programme is global in nature, meaning wherever you’re based you will benefit from the same outstanding training, development and support. Alongside this, the rotational structure of our programme has been developed to give you choice which means you will be challenged in many different ways, all of which to build your confidence, expertise and experience at pace giving you flexibility to eventually take your career in a direction that suits you best.
As one of the world’s most developed commodity trading businesses, our trading & shipping arm keeps the planet’s energy moving.
With an extensive portfolio and expertise in physical supply and trading, bespoke financial structures, this part of bp helps around 12,000 customers make the most of their assets – all while offering people like you an excellent place to begin a rewarding career.
Alongside a unique opportunity to act as a key integrator of multi-energy solutions across bp, trading & shipping is perfectly placed to support the company’s journey to net zero whilst delivering distinctive competitive advantage. To do this, we’ll need to be constantly pursuing commercial opportunities. Optimizing our core businesses. Looking for new revenue streams.
Striving for more innovative digital and customer solutions, as well as building closer collaboration across bp and beyond. Throughout, the deep expertise and leadership of our people will be key to helping us continue to be one of the world’s leading energy traders.
That’s why we’re looking for the sharpest minds and brightest talent, and empowering them to progress in our inclusive and agile culture. By joining trading & shipping, you’ll have the opportunity to be a part of it all, while working with some of the most dynamic, diverse and high performing teams around.
The team will be on hand to ensure that you’re involved in projects and roles of significant value – giving you exposure to markets, deal making and stretch opportunities. There’s also an excellent chance that you’ll be involved in new and exciting projects, such as unexplored areas of analysis, optimization or commercial opportunity. And, whether you’re learning on the job or in the classroom, joining our trading & shipping programme is the perfect springboard to a rewarding career.
On top of this, you’ll have a buddy and mentor assigned to you, helping you to navigate the organisation, guide your development and learn what it takes to be successful in your career. We have designed the programme to enable flexibility, whereby we will discuss your development track preference during the application process and how your preference aligns with your performance in the selection process. Once you have joined bp and become part of the trading & shipping development programme we will consider changes to your development track according to your performance.
Innovation & engineering (I&E) is one of bp’s new business groups and is positioned to be an engine for innovation across bp. It plays a key role in redefining bp into a successful, financially resilient low carbon company.
Within I&E, the applied sciences teams will apply science, in combination with engineering, digital and commercial capabilities from across I&E, to help realize our net zero future.
Applied sciences is the home for bp’s scientists; our deep expertise is built on a foundation of world-class laboratory experimentation. Applied sciences is integrated with our customer groups, providing differentiated products and solutions to meet the short-mid term market needs. Applied sciences leads the longer term technology agenda, identifying emerging trends and innovating to develop energy pathways and platforms that will provide the future pipeline for our net zero transition.
The applied sciences development programme will operate in a flexible model that allow graduates to experience the breadth of applied sciences, eg: mission-led placements within country over a period of three years. We support our graduates to get professional accreditation and become chartered engineers and chemists.
No other graduate programme provides you the same breadth of experiences across finance and multiple risk management areas.
Through the programme, you can expect to build a strong understanding of how risk is assessed, measured and actively managed in an energy trading business. Our risk functions are integral to the trading & shipping organisation and interact with the trading benches and other commercial functions to provide an invaluable insight into the management of our business.
Role rotations include credit risk, commodity risk, operational risk and commercial development.
For the upcoming 2024 season, we will not be accepting applications for this programme.
How we do it
Now you know a little more about what we do, we’d like to take the opportunity to share some details around how we do it, and why our approach makes us stand out from the crowd.
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