Manager PS&D | BHP Chile
Chile
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.
The challenge ahead
As Manager Investment Evaluation, you will play a critical role within BHP’s Portfolio Strategy & Development (PS&D) function, a team that integrates Investment Evaluation, Asset Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Strategy & Market Intelligence capabilities to support high-value business decisions across our portfolio.
Based in Santiago, you will focus on supporting the Minerals Americas copper portfolio through decision evaluation activities that provide clarity and confidence around major business decisions. You will lead economic evaluations associated with capital investments, long-term planning, commercial opportunities, and transactions, ensuring that each decision is informed by rigorous analysis, sound valuation methodologies, and a deep understanding of risks and uncertainties.
In this role, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and senior leaders, helping shape strategic thinking and ensuring that investment decisions are aligned with value creation objectives. You will have the opportunity to contribute to some of the most important growth, development, and portfolio decisions across the region while collaborating with global teams and leveraging world-class evaluation practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead valuation activities that support investment decisions by identifying, quantifying, and managing risks and uncertainties while ensuring that investment business cases are clearly articulated and aligned with market-based value metrics.
- Drive the application of valuation methodologies for capital projects, long-term asset planning initiatives, commercial opportunities, and other strategic business decisions.
- Deliver independent, robust, and high-quality economic evaluations that support portfolio-level decision-making and investment opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with regional stakeholders and the global Decision Evaluation function to support strategic initiatives and ensure consistency of evaluation standards across the business.
- Challenge assumptions and influence strategic thinking by providing objective insights and evidence-based recommendations that enhance decision quality.
- Prepare clear, concise, and impactful reports and presentations for senior leadership and key stakeholders, communicating complex analyses in a way that supports informed decision-making.
- Lead and mentor a team of professionals responsible for evaluation activities related to capital projects, transactions, and strategic plans, ensuring high-quality outcomes and effective delivery.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning by coaching and developing team members in valuation methodologies, investment evaluation techniques, and commercial analysis capabilities.
What we are looking for
You are an energetic and driven professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a strong attention to detail. You combine commercial insight, technical expertise, and leadership capability with the ability to build credibility and trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- More than 10 years of experience in the resources industry, ideally with exposure to copper operations and projects across different stages of maturity.
- Demonstrated commercial and operational thinking, with a track record of supporting value-based business decisions in complex environments.
- Strong capability to work with technical subject matter experts, rapidly understand complex technical challenges, and translate them into business cases and valuation frameworks.
- Deep knowledge of corporate finance principles, capital markets, and investment evaluation, combined with advanced financial modelling capabilities.
- Strong understanding of decision analysis methodologies, including decision framing and probabilistic analysis techniques.
- Broad business knowledge across related disciplines such as legal, tax, treasury, accounting and reporting, corporate governance, investor relations, and risk management.
- Proven ability to establish credibility and build effective relationships with project teams, leaders, external auditors, and other key stakeholders.
- Leadership experience managing teams of professionals responsible for valuation analysis supporting capital projects, transactions, and strategic planning activities.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to present evaluation outcomes and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management in both English and Spanish.
- A degree in a technical or business-related discipline. Postgraduate qualifications such as an MBA or a Master's degree in Finance will be highly regarded.
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 recognize 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.