Principal Strategy | Procurement | Australia / Chile / Canada

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 You

The Strategy team is an internal commercially focused management consultancy operating across Australia and Chile. We connect BHP’s top priorities to holistic procurement strategies that deliver lasting and sustainable impact. The Strategy team collaborates with internal procurement groups and the broader business to establish category and sourcing strategies that align and leverage interdependent strategies, accelerating the delivery of sustainable value to BHP.

As a Principal in the Strategy team, you will be a key enabler supporting the broader procurement function by providing high-quality problem-solving skills, strong communication abilities, and business acumen. As a team player, you will generate cohesive and holistic strategies, using your critical thinking skills to connect the dots, challenge conventional thinking, and enabling a business step change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead strategy development across key material categories.
• Identify and assess high-value commercial opportunities.
• Collaborate with Procurement and SMEs to define key strategic objectives and market insights that create value.
• Support the delivery of tangible savings through innovative commercial strategies.
• Navigate ambiguity and engage across functions to drive coordinated outcomes.
• Translate data insights into actionable business recommendations.

This role can be based in any one of the following BHP offices: Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Santiago or Saskatoon

About You

• Strong commercial acumen and familiarity with alternative commercial models.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Skilled collaborator who builds alignment across teams and functions.
• Proven ability to conduct analysis, ensure accurate and up-to-date data from various sources, and interpret complex results to identify key opportunities.
• Demonstrated 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.

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