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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 GBS processes meeting operational needs in a timely and effective manner

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Supply and other colleagues to optimise and deliver sustainable sourcing outcomes.
• Supporting the development of Category 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 Supply’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 spending.
• Pursuing operational and commercial excellence through continuous improvement
• Maintaining contract data in BHP systems 
• Support Category 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 Supply 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.
• Assist Lead Category Management in resolving complex issues, review of work allocation and associated regular and ad-hoc reporting activities to manage team’s performance.
• Assist the Lead Value Chain to continuously update and improve procedures and Quick Reference Guides (QRG) documentation for the Team

About You

• Bachelor’s degree and/or similar qualification in a commercial, business and/or technical discipline
• Experience in procurement within ERP systems, with SAP, preferred
• Pragmatic commercial outlook and exemplary judgement (balances business value vs. risk) to deliver the 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 of 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 enable 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.