Principal Professional Labour & Services Procurement | Enterprise & Innovation | Brisbane
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
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our Procurement team as a Principal Professional Labor and Services in the Enterprise & Innovation Procurement team.
The Principal will manage a portfolio of Professional Labor and Services commercial activities, and partner with Assets and Functions globally to support robust contract management and strategic sourcing activities. This role will develop partnerships and strategies with suppliers to build ongoing value. This role will suit an emerging leader who will help drive a high performance culture and support development, coaching and capability building of other team members. This role is responsible for influencing internal stakeholders and external partners to achieve strategic, social value and decarbonization priorities within their portfolio and the broader Professional Labor & Services categories.
Accountabilities
- Lead the development and negotiation of strategic commercial agreements
- Build trusted relationships with key asset and functional stakeholders
- Responsible for understanding the hygiene of portfolio and assist Category Leads in allocating resources to manage portfolio effectively and manage performance to plans (e.g. Supply management, contract management, governance, value delivery, pipeline build)
- Responsible for understanding contribution to Procurement business plan and have agreed plans in place to meet deliverables and Procurement targets.
- Identification and management of Category risks (including but not limited to security of supply, reputation)
- Keeping abreast of key external trends both functionally and Supply market perspective, new innovation and newly emerging risks
- Driving collaboration with senior stakeholders across the region to identify and execute opportunities to reduce external spend
- Actively engaging with stakeholder groups to provide commercially focused coaching and mentoring
About You
- Ability to manage complex, regional and / or global categories. Experience with Labour or Professional services is valued but not essential.
- Ability to manage stakeholders across multiple geographical regions
- Ability to synthesize and present complex information in a strategic manner.
- Role models an ability to thrive in ambiguous environments
- Strong commercial acumen
- Advanced entrepreneurial mindset & ability to lead change
- Skilled in conflict management & facilitation
- Skilled in coaching & mentoring of team members and stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
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.
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. 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.