Manager, Contracts and Risk Ops

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
Global Business Services (GBS) aggregates all functional value chains into a single operational Function, unlocking operational excellence for BHP's Assets and Functions through reliable execution and end-to-end process transformation. Order-to-Cash (O2C) is one of the service delivery lines, which focuses on Outbound supply chain.

The Manager for Contracts and Risk Operations (CRO) oversees governance and management of contracting and price risk activities across BHP's Commercial function; stewardship of relevant IT and data infrastructure.

Operations Management

• Is responsible for BHP's commodity contracts, price risk and financial performance reporting and associated controls, governance, routines and capability
• Understand markets across BHP's portfolio and effective stakeholder relationships to advise on portfolio impacts to risk and returns from changes in market conditions, production profiles, customer needs, and strategy
• Translates function wide strategy to operational milestones for teams
• Leverages BHP's risk management framework to support safe and reliable delivery and makes risk-informed decisions

Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management

• Provide leadership and performance management to contracts (drafting, creation and maintenance) and price risk teams
• Partners with Commercial (Marketing, Maritime and Risk, Governance Analytics RGA teams) to deliver enterprise impacts
• Lead teams through change and transition at scale, and pace

Transformation and Improvements

• Brings innovation and continuous improvement of contracts and commodity price risk management and financial performance methodologies, leveraging data, technology, external and internal insights and quantitative analysis skills.
• Provides thought leadership for Commercial, GBS and O2C wide matters.
• Leads through BHP Values of Do What's Right, Seek Better Ways and Make a Difference

About You

• Strong leadership and influencing skills to engage with teams and with senior stakeholders
• Understand commercial and corporate strategies to appropriately design and implement tools to support quantification and communication of risk insights
• Ability to lead change and lead teams to high performance outcomes
• Strong commodity and/or financial risk management skills to analyse and articulate financial performance and financial risk across the Commercial portfolio
• Sound understanding of commodity trading business
• Comprehensive understanding of BHP Risk Management IT infrastructure and capability
• Detailed Product and Market Risk process knowledge
• Knowledge and application of decision analysis techniques and modelling relating to market risk control models

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.

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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.

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