Specialist Npi

**Date**:16 Jan 2025

**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**
- A rare opportunity has arisen for a skilled procurement professional to fill the role of Specialist, NPI as part of the Copper SA Procurement team.
- Reporting to the Lead, NPI, this role is responsible for delivering high-quality, customer-focused procurement activities, including category management, sourcing, contract management and improvement initiatives. We welcome diversity of thought. You will be empowered to leverage the full range of your relevant skills to make a real difference to our business. This is an excellent opportunity to join a diverse and high-performing team within one of the world’s top producers of commodities.
- This hybrid role is based in Adelaide with options of working from home (upto 2 days a week).
- Core Responsibilities
- The primary responsibility of this role is to deliver high-quality, customer-focused procurement activities through:

- Developing and executing sustainable category management, sourcing and contract management strategies based on global best practice and local insights, that target the realisation of best value
- Building and managing strong, collaborative relationships with internal customers, suppliers and other key stakeholders
- Being an expert commercial advisor to internal customers
- Identifying and leading improvement opportunities to maximise value and optimise risk management across the supply chain
- Striving to achieve 100% safety and 0% waste
- Identifying and leading local and indigenous sourcing opportunities
- Analysing, interpreting and reporting on large sets of financial data, performance metrics, market intelligence and other relevant information to make sound commercial recommendations and decisions
- Developing and evaluating complex total-cost-of-ownership and pricing models
- Supporting procurement activities led by others as required
- Taking personal accountability for their performance, working hard to deliver against individual, team and global KPIs, and stretch targets
- Identifying and proactively finding solutions to the root causes of problems hindering or preventing success
- Experimenting with better ways of doing things, and learning from mistakes
- Supporting team performance and capability development through peer support, collaboration, sharing of lessons learned and providing on-time feedback
- Engaging the capabilities of the entire organisation.

**About You**
- At least two, but ideally five or more years’ experience in high value/risk procurement roles within medium to large organisations
- Mining or related industry experience is desirable, but not essential
- A qualification in Procurement, Law, Commerce or related field is desirable, but not essential
- Expert knowledge of procurement best practice
- Advanced relationship management and communication skills, enabling the influencing of a diverse stakeholder group (frontline to executive)
- Strong commercial acumen
- Strong analytical and reporting skills
- Successfully juggles multiple competing priorities in a fast-moving and at times ambiguous environment
- Acts with integrity and takes pride in their work
- Positive and proactive
- Autonomous, detail oriented and organized.
- Applications close 30th January

**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