Principal Sales Liaison | Shanghai*
China
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
Reporting to the Manager, the Principal Sales Liaison will liaise with customers and, where relevant, suppliers to support relationships and interactions following direction from the Head of Sales Liaison, in line with agreed marketing objectives and strategies.
- Demonstrates an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
- Demonstrates commitment to the BHP Charter and Code of Business Conduct.
- Provides necessary preparatory and liaises to facilitate contract negotiations with customers and suppliers.
- Builds and maintains (long term) favorable relationships with suppliers, customers and other key relationships.
- Collects relevant market information from external interactions and exchange with relevant key internal relationship.
- Ensures adherence of marketing activities to external and internal policies and legislation.
- Represents the BHP Trading and Marketing Unit externally with customers, suppliers and partners, as needed, to create a positive external image of the company.
- Assists the Head of Sales Liaison with projects as required.
About You
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a commercial, economic, technical and/or relevant business discipline
Experience & Technical Competencies:
- Strong communication, problem solving and risk management skills
- 5+ years working experience in sales/marketing roles in commodity markets
- Experience in the Iron Ore market particularly port sales market would be advantageous
- Experience with SAP application
Languages:
- Fluent Mandarin and English, both verbal and written required
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].