Specialist Processing

**Date**:1 Aug 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
- In this role as a Specialist Processing within the Copper South Australia Procurement Team, you will play a vital role in the development of multi-year procurement strategies, partnerships and sourcing activities.
- The key accountabilities of the role include:

- Builds and manages strategic supplier relationships that target realisation of value over and above contract value through innovation, risk sharing, R&D and active commercial partnerships.
- Obtains the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for goods and services, value, and quality using market research, supplier evaluation, and fact-based negotiation to meet business objectives.
- Supports the development of value chain strategies and customizes these to identify, structure and prioritise opportunities and make educated risk trade-offs across categories over a medium-term time horizon that are then executed in the sourcing cycle.
- Applies an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimisation, and maximise value.
- Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
- Applies intelligence on industry trends and market dynamics to drive enhanced decision making and planning.
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs
- About You
- To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Strong commercial acumen to balance business priorities and ability to identify opportunities with a view of total cost of ownership, strong quantitative and analytical skills to build fact based insight and recommendations;
- Ability to support the development and implementation of complex, regional and / or global categories sourcing strategies, tendering and sourcing;
- Identify risks and appropriate commercial control options;
- Ability to problem solve and think laterally to independently resolve issues and influence change;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills ;
- Approach work with a strategic mind-set including the ability to identify new opportunities and drive them to implementation;
- Proficient in the use of MS Excel, particularly for data analysis, MS Word, MS PowerPoint
- Be familiar with SAP and related systems such as the Global Contractor Management System; and
- Background in procurement, processing, engineering, mathematics, law, commerce, finance or accounting would be beneficial.
- Applications close 8th August
- 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.