Principal HR Operations And Contract

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 are seeking a highly skilled Principal GBS HR Contractor Management professional to lead and support the effective execution of contractor management processes across BHP. This role plays a critical part in ensuring operational excellence, safe work outcomes, and strong enterprise-wide vendor relationships. The successful candidate will collaborate with internal stakeholders, vendor partners, and cross-functional teams to drive performance improvements and value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and refine Scopes of Work, following contract management frameworks and resolving issues through strong vendor relationships to drive safe and effective work practices.
• Oversee and support the execution of contractor processes that promote safe, efficient, and effective service delivery.
• Build and maintain long-term vendor and supplier relationships to drive performance, compliance, and strategic value.
• Driving business improvement through the measurement of performance.
• Supporting the management of vendor/customer selection, contracts, and performance to maximise operational and financial outcomes and mitigate exposure to risk.
• Monitor contractor performance using data, metrics, and benchmarking to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Fostering strategic supplier relationships that target realisation of value over and above contract value.
• Making evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer term GBS HR objectives.
• Identify risks, implement mitigation strategies, and escalate issues when necessary.
• Implement governance and assurance practices, including Management of Change procedures.
• Address and resolve contract variations, defects, and non-conformances in adherence to company standards.
• Collaborate with procurement, finance, operations, and other internal stakeholders to drive consistent processes and value chain performance.
• Applying an understanding of the business context, operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and performance.
  
  

About You

Pivotal Experiences for the role:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with vendors and suppliers
• Negotiating favourable outcomes for the organisation
• Managing multiple deliverables simultaneously
• Analysing data to manage vendor performance
• Collaborating with various internal teams (e.g. procurement, finance, operational teams) to achieve business goals
  
  

Required Skills, Accreditations And Qualifications

• Strong communication skills
• Negotiation expertise
• Analytical skills
• Project management
• Relationship management
• Problem solving
• Commercial acumen
• Attention to detail
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management or related field
  
  

To be successful in this role you must have strong commercial acumen, savvy negotiation skills, the ability to apply performance, governance and assurance standards, a continuous improvement mindset and must be able to put the customer at the heart of what you do.

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.

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 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 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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