Principal Value Chain | Procurement | Labour | Brisbane/Perth/Adelaide
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 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
Working with the Lead Principal on the strategy and delivery of a national sourcing program, you will own the day-to-day direction and momentum of the program. This program represents a significant savings opportunity and requires a commercially minded, highly skilled communicator who can cut through ambiguity, build alignment, and drive timely decisions and action across a diverse stakeholder group to deliver sustainable value.
What You Will Do
- Develop and implement category strategies that identify, structure, and execute opportunities to drive commercial value while managing supply risk and delivering on safety and operational requirements.
- Reduce total cost of ownership by making informed risk trade-offs over the medium term and executing these through the sourcing cycle.
- Deliver value through fact‑based insights, strong analytics, contract expertise, and targeted strategic actions.
- Lead end‑to‑end procurement activities, including requirements definition, baseline development, sourcing, negotiation, savings validation, contract execution, and contract management.
- Engage and influence stakeholders across Operations, ER, HSE, Procurement, Finance, and Legal to align priorities and deliver outcomes.
- Maintain awareness of external trends, including market dynamics, the IR landscape, innovation, and emerging risks.
- Challenge existing ways of working and facilitate decisions in complex, ambiguous, and competing priority environments.
- Communicate strategies clearly and effectively to all stakeholder levels, from senior leadership to frontline operations.
About You
- Strong commercial acumen and proven negotiation experience
- Sound project management, problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to cut through complex data to provide clear recommendations and facilitate decisions
- Confidence to challenge established thinking and create process improvements, including developing frameworks and guidelines to ways of working
- Collaborative mindset to build alignment across functions and senior leaders
- Comfortable operating in fast paced settings with a continuous improvement mindset
Why Join Us
- Opportunity to make a real impact by delivering high visibility initiatives that directly supports our Assets and frontline teams
- Grow your commercial capability through working in a fast paced, complex environment and increase business wide understanding
- Influence and connect with a wide range of leaders across the Assets and Procurement to make meaningful connections and shape decisions that matter
- Join a team of collaborative, like minded commercial professionals committed to delivering tangible value through disciplined sourcing and 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.