Intern and insight programmes
Our internships provide an excellent platform for you to explore your career aspirations while delivering tangible benefits throughout our business
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To find a suitable role, use our candidate matching tool below. Here you’ll find the position that’s right for you and be given the opportunity to apply.
Please note: You can apply to one bp early careers opportunity globally per academic year. If you make multiple applications within the same academic year, then we will only process the first application you make, and you’ll be withdrawn from any subsequent applications. The list of matched roles below are in no particular order. We recommend you explore each role that is suggested for you and apply to the one you’re most interested in.
Intern and insight programmes
Our internships provide an excellent platform for you to explore your career aspirations while delivering tangible benefits throughout our trading business. As one of the world’s most developed commodity trading businesses, our trading & shipping (T&S) 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, T&S is perfectly placed to support the company’s journey to net zero while 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.
You’ll get involved in real projects and have a role of significant value, getting exposure to markets, deal-making and stretch opportunities.
Beyond that, your internship will use online and virtual learning, leveraging classroom and on-the-job training to give you the building blocks of an amazing career. And you won’t be going it alone, you’ll have a buddy and mentor assigned to you, one who can help you navigate the organization, give advice on your development and help you learn what it takes to achieve your goals.
Summer and semestral internship
Our paid internships give you the opportunity to gain real business experience in the summer before your final year. And this may lead to an offer of a place on one of our graduate programmes.
Our internships are designed for penultimate year students which means that when returning to university for your final year, you could have a graduate role lined up for the following year. Beyond this, you’ll have drive, innovative thinking, entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to get on well with colleagues.
- The summer internship period lasts 12 weeks, from May to July each year.
- The semestral internships are 6 months long, from June to December each year.
Trading & shipping internship
T&S is bp’s face to the commodities markets including oil, gas, power, emissions, and finance. Our role is to enhance performance and maximise value for bp’s assets through distinctive supply, commodity trading, data analytics and risk management; underpinned by a world-class finance, control, and compliance infrastructure.
You will be working on projects with real impact to our business. You’ll be placed in a team that best matches your skillset and ambitions and be an integral part of the team’s success.
- You could be carrying out research and analysis into a particular market area to help support trading decisions.
- You could be producing a daily news report to highlight market information and important drivers for the trading team.
- You could be supporting teams on key projects related to our low carbon ambitions.
- You could be working to automate and optimise systems to speed up trading processes.
Applications for the trading & summer internship programme are now closed.
Applications for the trading & shipping semestral internship programme closes on 31 January 2025.
Finance and risk internship
The finance and risk internship supports our T&S business. The role is to advise and support T&S to enhance value in commercial opportunities, manage the risk control framework, engage with T&S for input on acquisition/divestment opportunities to name a few. It is global in nature – wherever you’re based, you’ll benefit from the same outstanding training, development, and support.
You will be working on projects with real impact to our business. You’ll be placed in a team that best matches your skillset and ambitions and be an integral part of the team’s success. Over the course of the internship programme, you can expect your duties and responsibilities to include:
- Working on projects and supporting your team to find the best solutions.
- Helping to maintain performance within your team and for bp as a company.
- Building relationships both within bp and with our external partners, collaborating across functions, segments and teams to deliver great work.
Internship projects could take place in the following areas:
Commodity risk: working in commodity risk means you must understand, control and constructively challenge trading activity and positions on a near real-time basis within T&S to ensure it is compliant and aligned to intended trading strategy.
Credit risk: the function provides independent risk oversight of counterparty risks inherent in trading activities, risk analytics and advice on deal structuring and risk mitigation to support the business. Quantitative tools and techniques are deployed to assess, measure credit risks and the team collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to deliver commercial goals. Interns can learn to perform risk quantification, analysis/review, monitoring and reporting and work on global projects.
Operational excellence: as part of the operational excellence team, you will help with managing, setting and promoting new and continuing improvement initiatives, compliant with operational risk standards and internal control processes across T&S.
Applications for this programme are now closed.
12-month trading & shipping internship
We’re offering talented students and recent graduates the opportunity to join our market analytics team as an intern for 12 months and be involved in delivering real-world energy solutions.
As an intern, you’ll help to transform what’s happening in geopolitical and market landscape into monetized trading opportunities. Through on-the-job experience, face-to-face and online learning, you’ll gain exposure to the data and methodology employed in analytics through working with traders and analysts in ship-tracking on one of our oil trading benches. You will learn more about our regional energy markets and the underlying fundamentals and take part in challenging development projects – while gaining insights into the pillars of trading fundamentals.
Applications for this programme are now closed.
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.
Interactive trading-up game
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