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Specialist Processing, Mining Services and Port | Part-Time | Perth
Date: 8 Aug 2025
Job Posting End Date: 24-Aug-2025;15:59:59GMT
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: Western Australia
Job Location/Region: Perth
About BHP
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Come and be a part of this success
About the Role
We are seeking a strategic minded, collaborative, and motivated individual to join our Processing, Mining Services and Port Team.
This team is responsible for overseeing the procurement functions of Western Australia Iron Ore's fixed plant and processing activities, mining services and Port (towage). This includes close integration with our internal and external stakeholders to leverage industry best practices, strategic partnerships and continuous improvement.
You will play a key role in contract management, supplier engagement, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver sustainable value and operational excellence. As a team player, you will generate cohesive and holistic strategies, using your critical thinking skills to connect the dots, challenge conventional thinking, and enable business step change.
Key Accountabilities
* Develops value chain strategies for a category, prioritises opportunities, assesses risks across categories and regions, and executes these in the sourcing cycle.
* Manage the full contract lifecycle, ensuring alignment with governance, milestones, and performance targets.
* Conducts tendering, negotiation and implementation of strategic contracts to obtain favourable commercial outcomes;
* Builds and manages strategic supplier relationships that target realization of total cost of ownership value over and above contract value through innovation, risk sharing, R&D and active commercial partnerships
* Builds positive, collaborative and robust relationships with customer teams in the Asset, which are outcomes driven;
* Works closely with Contract Owners to support contractor performance;
* Applies intelligence on industry trends, new innovation and market dynamics to drive enhanced decision making and planning and demonstrates an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance; efficiency, drive optimisation, and maximise value;
About You
* Experienced Procurement or Commercial Professional with degree qualification in Commerce or Supply Chain Management is desirable however not essential.
* Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
* Demonstrated proficiency in procurement, tendering processes and tools.
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and lead change.
* Proven ability to conduct analysis and interpret results to identify key opportunities.
* Demonstrated critical thinking skills and the ability to challenge pre-established conceptions.
* Strong understanding of business improvement principles and practice
* Part time role (with consideration provided to full time applicants)
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 includesgender,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.
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