Commercial - Summer Internship

About BP 

bp is a global company that offers opportunities for professionals and those starting in their careers. We’re guided by our purpose and ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and help the world get there too.

Early Careers Experience at BP 

Our summer internships are 11 weeks. You’ll be based in one team throughout your internship, working on real projects that you’ll be able to manage through to completion. Throughout you’ll have the support of a dedicated line manager and a buddy from one of our early careers programs. Alongside your day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have the opportunity to attend events and socials with other interns, take part in training sessions to help develop your interpersonal skills, and network with leaders from across BP. The program is designed to help build your skills and technical knowledge whilst also allowing you to learn more about life at BP.  

Role and Responsibilities 

• The ‘One Commercial’ early careers programme represents BP's commercial ambitions across entities globally. 
• The capabilities and exposure provided via the programme position commercial early careers at the heart of BP’s strategy – providing resilient hydrocarbons, growing convenience & mobility, and unlocking low-carbon energy.  ​ 
• The ‘One Commercial’ programme gives you a breadth of opportunity to build your commercial skills and experiences which will allow you to understand the complete commercial value chain across bp.  The commercial discipline is integral to achieving BP’s ambitions to provide reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon energy to the world and achieve net zero.​  
• As a Commercial Intern at BP you will complete your 11-week internship at one of these 2 businesses/functions: Customer and Products or Gas and Low Carbon Energy.

Customer and Products

• C&P One Commercial early careers complete rotations across our C&P businesses and gain experiences and exposure to our Customer Offer, Commercial Acumen, and Customer-facing or Commercial Operations.   For example, you could have a rotation role in Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Retail Operations, Strategic Planning, or Competitor Intelligence.  

Gas and Low Carbon Energy. 

• G&LCE advances low-carbon energy solutions for people and our planet by reimagining our gas and low-carbon energy businesses. Throughout your assignment, you’ll have the opportunity to work in teams that are building and growing low and zero-carbon businesses and markets, driving new decarbonization technologies and capabilities, and maximizing the performance and value of our gas businesses. 

The roles and responsibilities across these businesses are varied.  The precise nature of your role will be defined by your skills as well as the needs of the business.  As a ‘One Commercial’ graduate, you might be:  

• Helping to respond to our customer's needs and to dynamic markets 
• Building relationships with our external partners, collaborating across functions, segments, and teams to deliver excellence 
• Working on projects and supporting your team to find the best solutions 
• Helping to make the best use of our assets and investments 
• Helping to maintain performance within your team and for BP as a company 
• Working across different parts of the energy value chain  
• Assisting in finding viable business models for decarbonisation and the energy transition 
• Partnering and working across BP entities to deliver integrated solutions 

As part of BP, you will also be able to take part in additional activities outside of your role, whether it be supporting local community initiatives or our BP Business Resourcing Groups and you are given the encouragement and time to participate. 

Requirements  

• To apply for this role, you must be in your penultimate year of study (those going onto a Master’s and PhD students can apply) and be on track for a 2:1. All degree backgrounds are welcome. 
• For this role you are expected to have strong spoken and written English language skills, including business and technical English.  Language skills will be assessed throughout the recruitment process. 

Please note: Our internships are full-time. If you will struggle to be available for these dates &/or may not be able to work full time, please flag this if you are invited to a technical interview, or earlier if possible. 

Other Information  

Please note the following when applying: 

• You can only apply to one BP early careers opportunity globally per academic year – within this time, we will only process the first application you make. You will be withdrawn from any subsequent applications.  
• Unless you apply to a role with a location explicitly stated, role locations are not guaranteed – where not stated, you will be placed in a location based on business need. 
• Accommodation – once confirmed, where you need or decide to move closer to your location, you are responsible for organising and funding this accommodation.