Lead Principal Portfolio, Strategy and Development | Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne
Australia
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
Be part of the Strategy & Market Intelligence team (within Portfolio Strategy and Development) with a focus on shaping BHP’s strategy and portfolio and optimising the use of capital to maintain a strong balance sheet, strengthen shareholder relationships and growing competitive advantage. Reporting to the Head of Commodity Strategy, you will play a key role in developing BHP's strategy in Copper, Potash and Uranium leading industry analysis and Commodity Price Protocol (CPP) work, leading Commodity and Asset Strategies and a broad range of other strategic initiatives.
This position will be based in a BHP Office either in Adelaide, Brisbane or Melbourne. There is potential for domestic and international travel with this position. This is a full-time position however flexible work options are available.
The Lead Principal role within Portfolio Strategy is a role in which you will:
- Understand BHP’s sources of competitive advantage in order to support the development of differentiated strategic decisions
- Scan, monitor and analyse the external market environment for trends shaping the global economy and commodities that could be sources of opportunity or risk to BHP’s strategic positioning, relative to its peers
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the value chains in BHP’s target commodities, and the strategic position and developments of competitors
- Employ innovation, analytical skills and critical thinking to generate ideas, and identify and develop opportunities to create value
- Engage in compelling strategic dialogue with senior leaders to effectively communicate complex ideas and recommendations to drive decisions
- Optimise risk and reward based on an understanding of value drivers underpinning all processes, decisions, strategies and plans within BHP.
- Identify, engage and manage a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders
About You
- Relevant tertiary qualification in commerce, economics, law, engineering or science (or related disciplines)
- Experience in mining or natural resources value chain, particularly base metals, will be highly regarded
- Consulting experience highly regarded
- Comfortable working with complexity and ambiguity to drive risk and value-based decision making
- Strong analytical skills, specifically translating multiple sources of information into value and recommend course of action
- Effective communications skills with experience preparing for, writing, and presenting to Senior Management and Business leaders
- Experience reviewing and understanding multi-disciplinary reports / documents and communicating key outcomes and takeaways
- Excellent Project Management skills. Capable of operating both independently and collaboratively in projects involving multiple workstreams and stakeholders
- Leadership experience with small multidisciplinary teams or project teams
This is a Monday to Friday position, requiring regular office attendance for at least three days per week. Please submit your application by COB Friday, March 21
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.