Logistics and Procurement Specialist Npi

**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**:
An opportunity exists for an experienced procurement professional to fill the role of NPI and Logistics Specialist as part of the WAIO Procurement team.

Reporting to the Lead NPI & Logistics Procurement, this role is responsible for the procurement and contract support for our aviation, facilities management, logistics, power and water services. The role will also be responsible for delivering improvement initiatives based on local insights and global best practice.

We welcome diversity of thought and you will be empowered to leverage the full range of your practical experience to make a real difference to our business. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced procurement professional looking to join a diverse team and high performing team.

The primary responsibility of this role is to drive world class sourcing and administration of contracts for aviation, facilities management, logistics, power and water services through:

- Ensuring the appropriate allocation of risks through the selection of the most effective commercial pricing models
- Providing contract management support to NPI & Logistics contract owners throughout the contract life-cycle
- Providing contractor and contract performance monitoring and reporting to support the NPI & Logistics Category (KPI reporting, spend analytics, contract variations incl. claims management, and off-contract spend)
- Maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to become a highly valued contract expert, trusted with commercial support, to lead negotiations with vendors and provide on-going contract management up to and including close-out
- Builds strong relationships with our contracting partners to identify and drive value adding improvement initiatives at a supplier level
- Ensuring consistency & high performance against procurement KPIs
- Pursuing commercial excellence through continuous improvement
- Supports direct tendering, negotiation & implementation of complex and high value contracts to reduce total cost to the business as required
- Supports Strategic Sourcing or Procurement Process improvement projects
- Develops and implements advanced commercial techniques to leverage value creation opportunities.

**About You**:

- Pragmatic commercial outlook and exemplary judgement (balances business value vs. risk) to deliver best outcome for WAIO.
- Strong analytical skills
- Demonstrated experience with contract law or contract management.
- Collaborative mindset and advanced interpersonal skills.
- Highly capable in building constructive long term relationships.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments.
- Autonomous, detail oriented, organised, and objective.
- Advanced communication skills enabling the influencing of a diverse stakeholder group (frontline to executive).

**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.