Procurement Specialist
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 role can be based in Perth or Port Hedland.
You will be working with a passionate and energetic Procurement and Rail Team and you will use a broad range of skills from Category Management, Stakeholder Management, Contract Management and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).
The role covers both Rolling Stock Maintenance and Rail Network Maintenance.
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 and maintain necessary level of parts
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies to drive total value chain outcomes related to external spend using best practice tools
- Develop implementation and handover plan for contracts, to ensure that value is sustainably captured (which may include defining and tracking success measures)
About You
- Prior experience in Procurement, Rail, Legal or related commercial discipline is highly regarded
- Ability to analyse and use unconstrained thinking to develop conclusions to support category decisions based on key data
- Ability to effectively work across multiple stakeholders to ensure parts availability and long term relationships
- Proficient in the MS Office Suite of products, specifically Excel, Word, PowerPoint
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 [email protected].