VP Procurement – Minerals America

Job title: VP Procurement – Minerals America

Company: BHP

Job description: About BHPAt 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 successAbout the RoleThe VP Procurement is responsible for delivering Commercial value in the Americas region, driving supply chain resilience, cost competitiveness and advancing BHP’s strategic agenda through the strength of our external partnerships.This leader is the Commercial representative in the Minerals America Leadership Team accountable for the procurement and commercial management of categories related with plant processing (including leaching and concentration processes), non-process infrastructure (owned and Outsourced) and logistics at BHP American Assets (Escondida, Pampe Norte) and Potash (Jansen).Accountabilities with the biggest impact

• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
• Strategic category management considering global strategies, creating commercial and social value across the Contract lifecycle to support corporate business strategy:
• Creating sources of competitive advantage such as cost, improved quality, time to market and service differentiation.
• Strategic procurement incl identification, selection, and implementation of ethical and responsible sourcing options (outsourcing, offshoring, and sourcing from low-cost countries).
• Lead and implement effective strategic relationship management.
• Supporting global procurement strategies as well as collaborating closely with the Global Mining &Services, Projects Commercial and Minerals Australia Commercial Functions to identify synergies, share best practices and problem solve.
• Deliver purpose led social value through targeted partnerships.
• Anticipate and respond to evolving markets, move at pace and drive matters of strategic importance (e.g., inclusion and diversity; culture of partnership, sustainability, and value chain decarbonisation).
• Building and leveraging internal and external partnerships to negotiate, influence and deliver mutually beneficial outcomes in line with strategic requirements.
• Supporting Demand to Pay (D2P) processes to optimise full end-to-end supply chain resilience.
• Identifies and assesses risks, makes risk informed decisions, uses BHP’s risk management framework and builds a risk aware culture to support safe and productive performance outcomes.
• Build and implement strategies to mitigate supply chain risks across critical Procurement categories

About YouExperience required

• Global and or Regional Procurement experience strategic initiatives.
• Experience in building, managing, and sustaining strong relationships with internal customers as well as building strong partnerships with suppliers.
• Being a key contributor and member of a dynamic and forward-looking leadership team
• Experience in working in and navigating stakeholders in a complex matrix work environment, or in a team or organisation that spans multiple time zones and cultures- requiring indirect influence.
• Experience working in innovative, best practice organisations or business units.
• Experience in being open to and leading enterprise-wide change, communicating for buy-in and journey management.
• Experience in leading high performing teams and building capability across groups of teams (e.g., masterclasses)
• Understand commercial strategies to appropriately balance risk vs rewards across the commercial functions and negotiate contractual outcomes
• Strong leadership and influencing skills to engage with a globalised team across 8 locations and time zones.
• Experience in developing and delivering enterprise

Job Posting End Date: March 28th, 2024About Our ProcessAt 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 WorkforceThe 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.

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Location: Chile

Job date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 01:53:50 GMT

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