Specialist NPI & Logistics

at  BHP

Date: 16 Jan 2025
Job Posting End Date: 30-Jan-2025;15:59:59GMT
Job Country:Australia
Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Adelaide

A rare opportunity has arisen for a skilled procurement professional to fill the role of Specialist, NPI as part of the Copper SA Procurement team.
Reporting to the Lead, NPI, this role is responsible for delivering high-quality, customer-focused procurement activities, including category management, sourcing, contract management and improvement initiatives. We welcome diversity of thought. You will be empowered to leverage the full range of your relevant skills to make a real difference to our business. This is an excellent opportunity to join a diverse and high-performing team within one of the world’s top producers of commodities.
This hybrid role is based in Adelaide with options of working from home (upto 2 days a week).
Core Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of this role is to deliver high-quality, customer-focused procurement activities through:

• Developing and executing sustainable category management, sourcing and contract management strategies based on global best practice and local insights, that target the realisation of best value
• Building and managing strong, collaborative relationships with internal customers, suppliers and other key stakeholders
• Being an expert commercial advisor to internal customers
• Identifying and leading improvement opportunities to maximise value and optimise risk management across the supply chain
• Striving to achieve 100% safety and 0% waste
• Identifying and leading local and indigenous sourcing opportunities
• Analysing, interpreting and reporting on large sets of financial data, performance metrics, market intelligence and other relevant information to make sound commercial recommendations and decisions
• Developing and evaluating complex total-cost-of-ownership and pricing models
• Supporting procurement activities led by others as required
• Taking personal accountability for their performance, working hard to deliver against individual, team and global KPIs, and stretch targets
• Identifying and proactively finding solutions to the root causes of problems hindering or preventing success
• Experimenting with better ways of doing things, and learning from mistakes
• Supporting team performance and capability development through peer support, collaboration, sharing of lessons learned and providing on-time feedback
• Engaging the capabilities of the entire organisation.