Analyst Procurement Operations | Night Shift | Spanish Speaker

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

You will be a key enabler to support a broader procurement function by providing strong problem-solving skills, negotiation ability, and supply business acumen. The position is expected to work with Regional Procurement team and manage low-value sourcing supply project tenders in a timely and effective manner. Lead and collaborate on process improvement activities as guided by BHP values and practices.

Core Responsibilities

• Ensure conformance with the BHP Charter, the BHP Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct, and relevant statutory obligations.
• An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility, and sustainable development.
• Work collaboratively with Commercial and other colleagues to optimize and deliver sustainable sourcing outcomes.
• Supporting the development of Category Strategies, ensuring local context is met and providing input on current contract performance. A core focus of this role will be driving world class contract management performance through:
• Executing Commercial's accountability for contract performance. This includes ensuring suppliers are performing to the contract requirements and rectifying non-conformances to contract terms
  • Proactive administration and management of contracts (including strategically critical) within the relevant category, including KPI reporting, spend analytics, identification of scope creep, and off-contract spend.
  • Ensuring consistency & high performance against operational and commercial supply KPIs
  • Support Category Managers and Contract Owners to optimise supplier performance within the contract framework
  • Pursuing operational and commercial excellence through continuous improvement
  • Applying sound commercial judgement around application of contractual terms
  • Maintaining contract data in BHP systems
  • Support Category Manager in the management of the commercial terms of the contract e.g. providing data and information for price reviews and periodic review meetings

• Lead or support direct tendering, negotiation & implementation of local sourcing requirements, including updating or expanding scopes of services and schedules of materials.
• Identify and implement savings opportunities from negotiating supply contracts to reduce total cost to the business and BHP.
• Proactively share replicable current state opportunities across categories and assets to drive enterprise level opportunity Support Strategic Sourcing or Supply Process improvement projects within Category Management.
• Participate and support activities such that Commercial meets the Business Plan and meets Department and Global KPIs.
• Develop and implement commercial techniques (such as e-Sourcing and low-cost country sourcing) to leverage value creation opportunities.

About You

• Strong commercial acumen and familiarity with alternative commercial models.
• Able to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across teams and functions.
• Able to work on huge data volume and provide analytical reporting and analysis.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills and the ability to challenge pre-established conceptions.
• Strong understanding of business improvement principles and practices.
• Ability to influence and obtain buy-in for new ideas with particular focus on senior leaders.

Why Join Us:

• Impactful Work: Shape and deliver key strategic priorities with real impact to our Assets and our frontline teams.
• Growth: Work in a fast-paced and challenging environment with the ability to rapidly increase your breadth of skills and understanding across the business.
• Influence & Connect: Engage and influence with senior leaders in our Assets and Procurement, making meaningful connections with your customers.
• Collaborative Team: Join a team of collaborative professionals committed to achieving our company's strategic objectives through decisive procurement excellence.

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.