From student to team leader: Jani's story

Jani started working for bp as a student and now, two years later he is the leader of two teams, managing 10 people

When Jani applied for a position at bp in 2018, he was a bioengineering student in the city of Szeged.

She convinced him to apply, and eventually he started out as a business support representative for the invoicing department of the Marine industry. Since then he had a rather exciting and eventful career journey.

From business support representative to team lead 

In his entry level position, as a business support representative in the invoicing team, he had to learn how to generate, send and correct invoices. In this team, we are essentially correcting and generating invoices. Performing these activities, we are supporting the marine business, which is about delivering lubricants for sea carrier and transporting companies.

After spending half a year in this team, he became the lead business support representative, whose responsibility is to coordinate the operative side of the work, handle escalations and support the team lead, who is their direct superior. A few months into his promotion, the position of the team lead suddenly became vacant. Jani applied for it and got selected, so he became a team lead at the age of 23.  

People management is a life-long learning 

When asked about the route to his success, Jani says, that there is no „secret recipe”.  

Jani emphasized that bp has an environment where one can develop themselves, try themselves out in many areas and receive the support needed for it, as well as resources to relevant educational materials. Of course, being a team lead at such a young age has its challenges.

As the leader of invoicing, he has been working together closely with the fulfillment team. By now, he became their team lead as well. This means that the number of people under his management expanded.