Azule Management System Advisor
Job Summary:
The Integrated Risk and Assurance function is accountable for developing, maintaining and improving Integrated Risk Management framework, the Azule Management System and the Assurance program. In addition, the team is responsible for setting the requirements for self-verification and contractor oversight across the company. The function ensures alignment with regulations, international standards and corporate governance, supporting risk‑based decision‑making across the company, supporting the delivery of safe, compliant and efficient oil and gas operations.
This role is responsible for the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the Azule Management System (AMS) elements of the function’s accountability, overseeing effective and efficient delivery of the AMS framework. Acts as the enterprise authority on AMS, ensuring strong compliance, capability development, and the scaling of high-impact improvements across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
AMS framework ownership
- Own AMS design, structure, and governance framework
- Ensure alignment with regulatory and corporate requirements
Deployment and embedment
- Lead implementation and embedment of AMS across all functions
- Ensure consistent interpretation and application
Continuous improvement framework
- Define and manage the company-wide CI methodology (e.g., Plan-Do-Check-Act)
- Enable improvement programs delivered by functional teams
- CI framework defined by AMS and executed through risk and assurance activities
Performance and governance
- Own AMS KPIs and performance reporting
- Lead management reviews and system effectiveness evaluations
Capability and training
- Define AMS training strategy and materials
- Build organisational capability in system application
Authority and advisory
- Provide expert guidance to leadership and functions
Main Interfaces:
- Internal: Department Directors, Function Managers and Internal Audit Teams
- External: Safety, Environment, Ethics and Assurance Committee, Audit and Risk Committee and Company Secretary
Requirements
- Provide strategic advice to senior leadership
- Strong understanding of governance, risk and operations
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to influence decisions and solve complex problems
- Work independently and manage multiple priorities
Essential experience, skills & competencies:
- Experience working with senior executives
- Proven track record delivering high-impact projects
- Experience in policy, strategy, or framework development
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Professional integrity and sound judgment
- Results-focused and adaptable
Essential Education:
Education to graduate level in Engineering, Business Management, Auditing, or other relevant subject.
Desired Experience (years):
10-15 years work experience in HSE, assurance, compliance, or audit roles within oil & gas or other high-hazard industries
Azule Energy, a new journey!
We are a new international energy company located in Angola
Our ambition is to provide energy for the Angolan people and partner with the country to navigate its energy transition. We will strive to create value for all stakeholders and put Angola at the core of what we do.
Why Azule
Combining the assets and workforces of bp and Eni in Angola, Azule Energy is a new standalone integrated energy company.
Our vision is to be a safe, responsible, diverse company that will pioneer cost-efficient oil and gas production, as well as help expand Angola’s renewables sector to support local energy consumption.
Azule is a leading upstream player, with exploration and production activities in 16 licensed blocks. Azule’s growing focus on natural gas plays will support Angola in its role as a global LNG exporter. In addition, Azule is developing new opportunities from renewables with a new solar business.
We are:
Partnering with Angola to enhance the country’s access to energy, creating employment and generating economic growth investing in new infrastructure and new technologies to drive the Angolan energy industry forward leveraging our unique expertise in exploration and fast-track project development operating in a way that is environmentally responsible, socially just and consistent with bp and Eni’s journey towards Net Zero.
Governance
Azule Energy is an incorporated joint venture (IJV) between BP p.l.c. and Eni SpA. bp and Eni each holding a 50% share. Azule Energy operates in Angola under different Petroleum agreements which set out its contractual relationship with the Angolan Government (represented by the National Concessionaire). The referred agreements provide the framework for carrying out the Petroleum operations.
Responsible operatorship
Safety
The safety of our employees, contractors and local stakeholders is a fundamental value.
Grounded in bp and Eni’s legacy safety culture, staying safe entails more than the continued adoption of world-class practices and procedures.
Azule is committed to nurturing a trusting safety culture within an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is treated with respect and dignity.
Environmental protection
Azule Energy is committed to preserving the environment and to promoting carbon neutrality . Our policy remains consistent with bp and Eni’s environmental values and goals to reach Net Zero 2050.
Azule’s emissions will follow a sustainable trajectory in line with both companies’ environmental targets. Hydrocarbon production and greenhouse gas emissions are reported by the two parent companies on an equity share basis.
Social Sustainability
Azule is committed to promote the sustainable development of communities in the country, in line with the Government’s development plans and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
We have a portfolio of diverse social initiatives inherited from bp and Eni which target key development areas across access to energy, access to water, health, education and agriculture.
If you have any queries get in touch with us at recruitment@azule-energy.com