Job Description

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Maritime Commercial (Container Freight) to join the Maritime Supply Chain team in Singapore, reporting to the Head of Maritime Enterprise, as part of BHPs broader Commercial organisation.

BHP transports bulk and containerised cargo across our global supply chain, delivering goods in to our operations and exporting our commodities out to our customers world-wide. The success of our business relies on a safe supply chain that delivers commercially and operationally superior performance.

This role is based in Singapore and is responsible for supporting the commercial and operational supply chain delivery of sustainability and productivity objectives for the BHP Maritime team, to deliver optimised maritime solutions for BHPs supply chain.

The successful candidate will be commercially astute, with supply chain expertise from within the container freight and/or logistics industry preferred. They will:

• Demonstrate a passion for sustainability and carbon abatement supply chain solutions and have an appetite for technology and data-driven process improvement.
• Demonstrate commitment to the BHP Charter and Code of Business Conduct.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of and adherence to all relevant compliance policies in order to facilitate meeting BHP and external legislative, reporting, governance and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrate a capability set aligned to a culture of care, trust and performance.
• The ideal candidate is a self-starter and can deal with high-pressure situations and ambiguity.

Key Accountabilities

Safety & Sustainability

• Demonstrates and instils an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development, specifically related to the maritime industry.
• Awareness in vessel vetting requirements through global organisations such as Rightship.

Commercial acumen

• Exposure across a logistics chain and/or container freight network within a shipping line, freight forwarder or logistics commercial or operational position.
• Engagement and management of key stakeholders (including internal customers and cargo suppliers) ensuring exceptional service level delivery and commercial value.
• Supports with account management of key container freight providers ensuring superior safety, operational and commercial outcomes.
• Supports with maritime commercial supply chain strategy development, reporting and budget management.
• Supports the optimisation of the Maritime P&L using technology/software solutions to deliver value for BHP.
• Translates market information, indices and knowledge into value generating strategic freight positions to optimize supply chain outcomes.
• Be strategically aware of industry regulatory events and impacts.
• Has an understanding of the freight industry supply chain dynamics, and can identify optimisation levers to improve safety, sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Partners with BHPs regional offices, Assets and Maritime teams as well as shipping liners through to supporting customer and/or supplier interfaces, to provide optimal and cost effective supply chain solutions.
• Interfaces with maritime operations team to ensure smooth supply chain execution and commercial outcomes.
• Demonstrates keen external strategic relationship management with outstanding project management skills.

Risk management

• Demonstrates understanding of inherent industry and supply chain risks (safety, operational and commercial) with an awareness of risk management tools and processes.

About You

• Bachelor degree in Economics, Engineering, Shipping, Supply Chain or Business.
• Experience & Technical Competencies

• 5+ years working experience in commodity markets, shipping or supply chain logistics industries.
• Industry experience in logistics, 3PL or shipping line roles.
• Knowledge of freight markets and operations.
• Languages - Fluent in English.

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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