AddressAbout the Role
The Lead for Global Mining Procurement will lead teams focused on developing cross-sector multi-year strategies and alliances, and conducting sourcing activities and provides supervisory level leadership to a team of Procurement professionals.
Key Role Accountabilities:
• Optimizes risk and reward based on an understanding that value drives and underpins all processes, decisions, strategies and plans within BHP to maximize value and deliver the best bottom-line for the organization.
• Obtains the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for goods and services, value, and quality using market research, supplier evaluation, and fact-based negotiation to meet business objectives.
• Builds and manages strategic supplier relationships that target realization of value over and above contract value through innovation, risk sharing, R&D and active commercial partnerships.
• Applies an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimization, and maximize value.
• Develops value chain strategies and customizes these for a category to identify, structure and prioritize opportunities and make educated risk trade-offs across categories and regions over medium term time horizon that are then executed in the sourcing cycle.
• Applies an understanding of other countries' political, historical and cultural context to build partnerships, market expertise and achieve business outcomes within an international context.
• Applies intelligence on industry trends and market dynamics to drive enhanced decision making and planning.
• Gains support for and negotiates outcomes that achieve mutually beneficial goals.
• Identify and implement social value opportunities as part of the sourcing and category strategies, and embeds this as part of the ‘ways of working’.
• Fosters a culture of high performance and agility through the direct leadership of a small team of professionals
• Ensures alignment of Procurement goals and initiatives with Asset & Functional Business plans opportunities and risks
• Mitigates people, environmental and community risks across the value chain, in alignment with sustainability and public policy.
• Engages the capabilities of the entire organization.
About You
To be a top performer you will need:
• Bachelor's degree related to the role (Engineering, Commercial or alike).
• At least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience leading direct reports (desirable).
• Fluent English proficiency.
• Availability to travel sporadically to Mining Sites.
