Specialist Value Chain

**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**:
The Category Management team is the driving force behind a Global and Strategic portfolio of Commercial arrangements and strong Operational relationships.

The role of the Specialist Value Chain (Category Management) is to support the Lead in the Earth Moving Tyres Category to develop and execute Globally focused category strategies whilst managing BHP’s Supplier Relationship Management for Tier A vendors within the category.

Key functions will include:

- Build trusted relationships with key asset and functional stakeholders
- Supporting the delivery of Price, Performance and Supply Chain initiatives, relating to Earth Moving Tyres
- Keeping abreast of key external trends both functionally and Supply market perspective, new innovation and newly emerging risks
- Driving collaboration by participating in cross-functional teams to identify and execute opportunities to reduce TCO (i.e., considering not only price but utility, demand, productivity and so on)
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies to drive total value chain outcomes related to external spend
- Effective communication of strategies to all levels of internal stakeholders, from senior leadership to frontline operations
- Provide input and support into the overall EMT Strategy including the development of a Global strategy, and also components such as EMT recycling and service provider optimization.

Role Principles
- Trusted partner to operational stakeholder in respect of external spend in relevant category
- Detailed understanding of the category including technical knowledge, demand analysis, spend analysis and market dynamics
- Develops innovative, value-driven, multi-year category strategies by developing deep category knowledge, market intelligence, awareness of technological developments and emerging markets and a detailed understanding of business needs
- Works collaboratively across Supply (Region, Global and across sub-functions) and operations stakeholders across Australia to develop and execute category and sourcing strategies
- Business partnering approach to value creation

**About You**:
You will be an action and delivery focused individual who is organized, pragmatic, and displays exemplary judgement. You will have a strategic mindset with the ability to create value through relationships with key vendors and a proven track record of a challenging mindset and identifying and leveraging opportunities in strategic relationships to deliver innovative value.

You will have advanced interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build constructive long-term relationships. You will have experience in roles requiring problem solving, innovative thinking, and aligning stakeholders to drive outcomes. You will have a demonstrated track record of delivering value to internal stakeholders across all levels. It is highly desirable that you have a past operational and/or commercial experience in mining/earth moving tyres.

**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 and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.