Specialist Procurement Operations

About the Company

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

To lead end-to-end low complexity sourcing projects and to support the end-to-end commercial activities undertaken by the Regional Commercial teams in delivering capital and operational projects,in a timely and effective manner. This includes playing a key part in performing activities within BHP’s Global Contract Management System(GCMS)and PCMS.

• Builds relationships with internal stakeholders that are critical in the performance of the role,whilst adhering to the Charter values. Works collaboratively to optimise and deliver sustainable sourcing outcomes.
• Leads sourcing activity to maximise commercial outcomes and mitigate exposure and risks. Activity includes but not limited to tendering,negotiation and contract activation for low risk contracts.
• Undertakes GCMS,1SAP and PCMS support activities relevant to Commercial processes with a committed sense of accountability for the associated outcomes.
• Ensures the accurate completion of all data within systems and tools used to capture data and identify issues within the data,such as missing values,outliers,possible errors,and lack of sufficient data to progress requirements.
• Performs documented Commercial processes relevant to the role,appropriately evidenced to support Business and Functional governance and assurance requirements.
• Identifies and executes opportunities to improve output,process automation,standardisation or simplify people,process and/or tools and present such opportunities to team leaders. Executes end-to-end commercial outcomes to deliver project key value drivers(such as schedule,cost and quality)for the stakeholder using market research,supplier evaluation,and fact-based negotiation.
• Sources information,plans and conducts analyses to support evidence-based decision making.
• Applies intelligence on industry trends and market dynamics to drive enhanced decision making and planning.
• Supports and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
• Identifies and assesses risks,makes risk-informed decisions,uses BHP's risk management framework,and builds a risk-aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Mitigates people,environmental and community risks across the value chain,in alignment with sustainability and public policy.

About You

• Experience in procurement role
• Experience in large multinational companies’ or a projects environment would be advantageous
• Undergraduate degree
• Good commercial and business acumen
• Proven proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and other digital productivity tools and systems
• Previous commercial, project management or quantity surveying experience on capital projects in the mining, resources or oil and gas industry would be well regarded

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. 

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

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.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.