Procurement Specialist

**Date**:8 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

Reporting to the Lead Mining Services Copper SA, as a Value Chain Specialist you will be a key enabler of value to the business by leading sourcing activities, implementing business improvements that drive cost savings and supporting mining operations across Copper SA with commercial contract management for high value strategic mining services and drilling scopes of work.
- Key responsibilities of the role include:

- Support the delivery of the Category Strategy for mining services in Copper SA.
- Build trusted relationships with key asset, functional stakeholders and strategic vendors.
- Conduct end-to-end procurement activities, e.g. requirements gathering, sourcing strategy development, baseline building, tender management, negotiations, savings calculations and contract execution
- Develop contract management plans, to ensure that value is sustainably captured (which includes defining and tracking Key Performance Indicators and other measures of success)
- Category management including ongoing value delivery by leveraging fact-based insight through strong analytics, understanding of contracts and driving strategic actions, including innovation and newly emerging risks
- Driving business collaboration through cross functional teams to identify and execute opportunities that increase value through a reduction in total cost of ownership and improve safety and sustainability outcomes
- Periodic site travel will be required to support operational stakeholders.
- This role is being offered on a 9 month secondment / Fixed Term Contract
- About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- A strategic mind-set and strong commercial acumen to identify new risks and opportunities and drive initiatives to implementation, with experience utilising alternate commercial models.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mining industry experience is preferred, but not essential.
- Applications close 17th 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.