Principal Emerging Markets | Procurement

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Date: 25 Feb 2026

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.

BHP is embarking on a bold step-change in how we source from and engage with New Markets. Building on our commitment to cost competitiveness, supply chain resilience and global capability, we are establishing a strengthened Central New Markets team to accelerate our ambition across capital and operating spend.

To support this ambition, we are seeking motivated, commercially minded, high-performing individual for Principal Emerging Markets role within our Central New Markets team. These roles will shape how BHP identifies, qualifies, and realises value from global supplier ecosystems, working closely with our New Markets hubs, Technical teams, Value Chain teams, and assets.

• Build fact based, enterprise opportunity pipeline through spend analytics, supplier ecosystem mapping and market intelligence
• Develop Total Cost of Ownership value cases, including should costing, landed cost modelling and risk adjusted benefits
• Lead or support Proofs of Concept with assets and technical teams to validate performance, quality and operational fit
• Drive commercial execution through negotiation support, category integration and SRM activities
• Shape playbooks, tools and repeatable methods that embed New Markets value delivery across Procurement and Value Chain teams.

This role can be based in Australia or in the Americas region where BHP operates.

We are seeking individuals who are energised by complexity, commercially sharp, and eager to build something new.

• Strong project management experience with structured delivery, risk assessment and cross functional coordination.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, including financial modelling, business case development, value analysis or commercial negotiations.
• Ability to influence across technical, operational and commercial stakeholders without direct authority.
• A mindset oriented towards innovation, global thinking and challenging conventional supply chain boundaries
• Strong problem solving skills and a passion for challenging conventional sourcing approaches.
• Experience in Procurement, Improvement, Projects, Engineering or similar environments.

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.

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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…