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**:
As the Specialist Value Chain, you will play a vital role in the development of multi-year strategies and partnerships, and conducting sourcing activities. The NPI & Logistics category is an important category for Olympic Dam, focused on supporting the mining operations through key goods and services like Bus & Aviation contracts, LV Hire & Maintenance services and other Non-Processing and infrastructure support services.

Role activities and duties include:

- Deliver value by leveraging fact based insight through strong analytics, understanding of contracts and driving strategic actions
- Conduct end-to-end procurement activities; e.g. requirements gathering, baseline building, sourcing, negotiations, savings calculations, contract execution and contract management
- Build trusted relationships with key asset and functional stakeholders
- 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 total cost of ownership (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 using best practice tools
- Effective communication of strategies to all levels of internal stakeholders, from senior leadership to frontline operations
- Develop implementation and handover plan for contracts, to ensure that value is sustainably captured (which may include defining and tracking success measures)

**About You**:
To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Strong quantitative and analytical skills (e.g. Excel) to build fact based insight and recommendations
- Honed stakeholder management skills to inform and influence a diverse stakeholder group
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in MS Word and MS PowerPoint
- Strong commercial acumen to balance business priorities with the total cost of ownership
- Ability to support the development and implementation of complex, regional and / or global categories and sourcing strategies
- Experience in tendering and sourcing
- Identify risks and appropriate commercial control options
- Ability to problem solve and think laterally to independently resolve issues and influence change
- Role models an ability to thrive in ambiguous environments
- Exercises sound judgement to listen; ask the right questions; validate assumptions and understand stakeholder requirements
- Skilled in conflict management & facilitation
- Approaching work with a strategic mind-set including the ability to identify new opportunities and drive them to implementation
- Background in engineering, mathematics, law, commerce, finance or accounting would be beneficial
- Previous experience in Heavy Industry will also beneficial

**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.