Principal Procurement WAIO | Commercial | Perth
BHP
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
The Principal Procurement for West Australian Iron Ore (WAIO) is an important role within the WAIO Procurement leadership team, reporting to the Head of Procurement. This role serves as a critical interface between Operations, Functions and Commercial by applying experience judgement and insight to drive performance, simplicity and delivery.
This role provides leadership to ensure our Commercial Function delivers in line with the Asset business plan and prioritizes efforts to meet strategic safety, cost, productivity and social value goals. Fun parts of the role include: • Coordinates development of the improvement pipeline for WAIO Procurement • Ensure ongoing alignment of key priorities between Asset and Commercial through regular interaction with key stakeholders • Promotes and identifies low-cost vendor opportunities for Category Management • Key co-ordination of the WAIO Procurement sourcing plan to ensure asset priorities are accounted for and executed and identify opportunities for value accretion. • Provides analysis and insight to identify opportunities and deliver value • Supports the procurement team in evaluating tenders, price reviews, variations and other commercial activities. • Creates connection between sub-functions and relevant operational stakeholders where required and assists in locating the necessary people within Assets for sub-function engagement requirements and within the sub-functions for Asset priorities. • Supports the Head of WAIO Procurement as the single interface for Supply the asset, warehousing and the global functions. • Responsible for leadership of one part time trainee.
About You
As the successful candidate you will possess the following attributes:
• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university desirable • Industry experience desired • Experience in effectively managing or broadly influencing across teams • Commercial and business acumen • Competencies in developing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships • Proven results in delivering recognized value and improving processes through influencing • Ability to analyse complex business processes, risk factors and control systems • Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred) • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Passion for business improvement, leveraging workshops and people for idea generation, prioritisation and ability to build roadmaps to drive actions • Asset disposals and sales • Experience in operationally based Supply or Finance roles highly 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.
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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 [email protected].