Specialist Sales Operations | Supply Chain | Manila

BHP; Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

flexible working options

generous paid parental leave policy

other extended leave entitlements

parent rooms

performance-based bonuses

best-in-class employee share program

Job summary

BHP in Manila is seeking a dynamic, customer-oriented professional to join its international commodities team. You will liaise with customers, service providers and commercial staff to execute contracts, coordinate loading, AR/AP and transport, while building strong relationships through clear communication.

The role requires understanding of trade basics, incoterms, governance controls, and the ability to drive process improvements across contracting, shipping documents and SAP.

Qualifications

• Relevant working experience in supply chain management, sales distribution, order fulfilment or letter of credit presentation.
• Understanding of international trade, freight, incoterms, and letters of credit.
• Ability to maintain stakeholder relationships across cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and SAP or similar ERP.

Responsibilities

• Liaises with customers, team members, service providers and commercial staff on contract execution, loading, AR/AP and transport.
• Cultivates relationships through effective communication and provides feedback to peers regularly.
• Plans and prioritizes own work, sets priorities and timelines to create value.
• Seeks improvement opportunities and streamlines contracting processes.
• Understands governance and external regulations, escalates risk as needed.
• Understands commercial terms and supports strategy alignment in contracts.
• Delivers clear messages tailored to audiences with appropriate detail.
• Processes marketing requests for all commodities, including billing, laytime, shipping documents and SAP updates.

Skills

Supply chain management

Sales distribution

Order fulfilment

Letters of credit

Stakeholder relationships

Communication & negotiation

Microsoft Office Suite

SAP ERP

Process improvement

Tools

SAP ERP

Microsoft Excel

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

This exciting opportunity gives candidates the chance to shine on an international stage while working in a diversified environment across multiple commodities. You will be a dynamic and customer-oriented individual with a strong commercial sense, team working skills, as well as experience in an international commodity trading and/or shipping environment is required.

• Liaises with customers, team members, service providers and commercial staff as necessary regarding contract execution, loading, coordinates Accounts Receivables/Payables and transportation of materials.
• Cultivates positive relationships through effective communication and provides constructive feedback to peers on a regular basis.
• Planning and prioritizing your own work, identifying priorities and timeframes focusing effort on the things that matter most and create value
• Consistently look for opportunities for improvement and streamline the contracting process. Engages in cross commodity / cross functional working groups to support functional excellence, governance, general improvement initiatives. Contributes and/or leads productivity improvement projects.
• Have a clear understanding of governance controls (including external regulations) applicable to the contracting process and executes the controls diligently. Proposes alternative controls and/or simplification opportunities when governance/compliance frameworks seems ineffective. Identify and confidently escalates risk control deficiencies which factor in applicable regulations, laws and policies.
• Understand the value of key commercial terms and provide advice to as required. Understand the commercial strategy and can connect elements of the strategy with clauses in the standard contract, identify and proposes opportunities to improve tactical delivery of the strategy in contracts and contribute feedback to the Sales Operations/Planning teams.
• Construct and deliver clear messages by adapting the level of detail and style for different audiences and situations.
• Accurate and timely processing of Marketing requests for all commodities. Core Marketing process including, Billing document creation and cancellation, Laytime creation, Material movement ticketing and analysis updates, Shipping document creation and maintenance, SAP updates to nomination, sales orders, contracts and delivery legs, Interpretation, conversion and capture of sales contracts

About You

• Relevant working experience in either supply chain management, sales distribution, order fulfilment or letter of credit presentation
• Have a basic understanding of international trade, freight, distribution, contract law, incoterms and trade financial instruments like letters of credit
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain stakeholder relationships, work with and influence a range of cross functional stakeholders
• Possess good communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, SAP or similar ERP supply chain systems
• Possess good working knowledge of process improvement methodology

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

• flexible working options
• generous paid parental leave policy
• other extended leave entitlements
• parent rooms
• performance-based bonuses
• 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.

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 includesgender,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 @bhp.com.