Analyst Value Chain

**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**:
We seek highly motivated individuals to join our dynamic team as Analyst Value Chain in the Category Management team to provide support activities to the team and execute Commercial processes meeting operational needs in a timely and effective manner adhering to defined policies and procedures.

Core Accountabilities
- Ensure conformance with the BHP Charter, the BHP Group Level Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations.
- An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development.
- Work collaboratively with Commercial and other colleagues to optimise and deliver sustainable sourcing outcomes.
- Supporting the development of Value Chain Strategies, ensuring local context is met and providing input on current contract performance. A core focus of this role will be driving world class contract management performance through:

- Support with the execution of Commercial’s accountability for contract performance. This includes ensuring suppliers are performing to the contract requirements
- Proactive administration and management of contracts within the relevant category, including KPI reporting, spend analytics, and off-contract spend
- Pursuing operational and commercial excellence through continuous improvement
- Maintaining contract data in BHP systems
- Support Value Chain Manager in the management of the commercial terms of the contract e.g. providing data and information for price reviews and periodic review meetings
- Varying contracts as required including updating or expanding scopes of services and schedules of materials.
- Lead or support direct tendering, negotiation & implementation of local sourcing requirements for low risk/value contracts
- Participate and support activities such that Commercial meets the Business Plan and meets Department and Global KPIs.
- Develop and implement commercial techniques for low risk/value contracts (such as e-Sourcing and low cost country sourcing) to leverage value creation opportunities.

**About You**:
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree and / or similar qualification in a commercial, business and/or technical discipline.
- Experience in procurement within ERP system, with SAP preferred.

**Experience & Technical Competencies**
- Procurement and contract management of technology software licenses and SaaS.
- A comprehensive understanding of technology products and services, which supports the discovery, extraction, processing, transportation and selling of our resources to BHP’s customers.
- Pragmatic commercial outlook and exemplary judgement (balances business value vs. risk) to deliver best outcome for BHP.
- Demonstrated experience in running tenders, evaluating & negotiating low risk/value contracts.
- Demonstrated experience with commercial contract and contract management.
- Collaborative mindset and advanced interpersonal skills.
- Capable in building constructive long term relationships.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments.
- Ability to think laterally to independently resolve issues and influence change.
- Autonomous, detail oriented, organised, and objective.
- Communication skills enabling the influencing of a diverse stakeholder group.
- Ability to work individually and in a team as required.
- Ability to support Supply Leaders to deliver upon department KPIs.

**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.

**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