Lead - Processing, Mining Services & Port WAIO Procurement
Australia
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 focuses 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
Join BHP’s WAIO Procurement team and lead the transformation of our sourcing strategy across iron ore, mining services, and port operations. We are reshaping our procurement approach to unlock BHP's growth strategy. Be at the forefront of commercial innovation, supplier partnerships, and operational excellence in one of our most dynamic portfolios.
We are seeking a strategic thinker and people leader who is passionate about building and managing strong supplier relationships, optimizing spend, ensuring reliable supply for our operations, and driving commercial excellence. As Lead – Processing, Mining Services & Port, you will join the WAIO Procurement team and lead a group of procurement professionals to deliver critical strategies and agreements that support our customers’ needs across WAIO. You will be a key commercial advisor to the WAIO business, collaborating directly with senior asset stakeholders to deliver optimized commercial outcomes and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
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Supplier Management - Build and manage strategic supplier relationships that deliver value beyond contract terms through innovation, risk sharing, R&D, and active commercial partnerships.
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Operational Excellence - Obtain the lowest total cost of ownership for goods and services, ensuring value and quality using market research, supplier evaluation, and fact-based negotiation to meet business objectives. Drive end-to-end supply chain efficiency to maximise value
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Strategic Leadership - Develop and execute sourcing strategies to identify, structure, and prioritize opportunities, making educated risk trade-offs across categories and regions over the medium term
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Risk Management - Mitigate risks across the value chain, in alignment with public policy and our sustainability and climate commitments.
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Negotiation Mastery – bring a strategic mindset to negotiations, balancing assertiveness with empathy to build trust and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Navigate ambiguity, leverage data, and influence stakeholders to ensure long-term mutual value.
About You
You are an experienced procurement leader with a growth mindset and passion for continuous improvement. You thrive in complexity and are energised by the opportunity to shape the future of procurement in one of the world's largest resource companiess. You are confident in building, collaborating, and maintaining partnerships with critical strategic suppliers, as well as with executive leadership teams, to create long-term value chain strategies that address business objectives and production targets, and establish frameworks to share value and risk.
As a strong communicator, you influence and negotiate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. You are energetic and results-oriented, thriving under pressure and bringing attention to detail along with the ability to meet multiple, interdependent deadlines. As a leader, you encourage your team to apply an improvement lens to everything they do. Your inclusive leadership style enables you to develop high-performing teams through coaching, mentoring, and empowering others to excel.
Why Join Us:
- Impactful Work: Contribute to the future of BHP’s growth pathway in iron ore by directly shaping how and what we buy for WAIO.
- Dynamic Environment: Work in a fast-paced and supportive environment with opportunities for growth and development.
- Collaborative Team: Join a team of dedicated professionals committed to achieving BHP’s growth ambitions in WAIO.
- Career Progression: Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise or broaden your horizons, BHP offers pathways to grow your career across our global operations
If you are passionate about procurement and ready to take on a leadership role that offers the opportunity to shape BHP’s future in WAIO, we want to hear from you!
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, 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.