Procurement Specialist

3 weeks ago


Greater Adelaide SA, Australia BHP Full time

**Date**:15 Apr 2024**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia**Job State/Province**:South Australia**Job Location/Region**:Adelaide**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.
- About the Role- As the Specialist Value Chain, you will play a vital role in the development of multi-year strategies and partnerships and conducting sourcing activities.- The Copper SA Mining Services category is integral to the integration of BHP’s South Australian copper province, where we’re working to integrate the existing Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Olympic Dam businesses to bring the scale required to economically and sustainably produce more Copper in South Australia to deliver to global customers.- Role activities and duties include:
- Support the delivery of the Category Strategy for mining services in South Australia
- Develop and implement sourcing and contractor strategies to drive total value chain outcomes related to external spend using best practice tools.
- Deliver value by leveraging fact-based insight through strong analytics, understanding of contracts and driving strategic actions.
- Conduct end-to-end procurement activities, e.g. requirements gathering, baseline building, sourcing, negotiations, savings calculations, contract execution and contract management.
- Build trusted relationships with key asset, functional stakeholders and strategic vendors.
- Driving collaboration by participating in cross-functional teams to identify and execute opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership (i.e. considering not only price but utility, demand, productivity and so on)
- Keeping abreast of key external trends both functionally and Supply market perspective, new innovation and newly emerging risks
- Effective communication of strategies to all levels of internal stakeholders, from senior leadership to frontline operations
- Develop implementation and handover plan for contracts, to ensure that value is sustainably captured (which may include defining and tracking success measures)
- About You- To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Demonstrated experience supporting or delivering complex/high value sourcing activities.
- Demonstrated stakeholder engagement skills including the ability to influence and build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to problem solve and think laterally to independently resolve issues and influence change.
- A strategic mind-set and strong commercial acumen to identify new risks and opportunities and drive initiatives to implementation.
- Sound judgement to listen; ask the right questions and validate assumptions.
- Advanced analytical skills (e.g. Excel) with experience in using Power BI and Think Cell highly regarded.
- Experience and tertiary qualifications in engineering, law, commerce, finance or accounting would be beneficial.

**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.



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