Practice Lead Strategic Portfolio

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 through this leadership role!

About the Role

As Practice Lead, Strategic Portfolio, you will be joining the Resource Centre of Excellence (RCoE) team and play a pivotal role in shaping enterprise decision‑making where you will provide leadership and assurance over the evaluation, optimisation and risk assessment of mining opportunities, and deliver strategic and due‑diligence insights to support BHP’s corporate development agenda.

In this role, you will be accountable for: 

• Leading technical assurance for corporate development strategic projects (including mergers, acquisitions and divestments) to ensure material risks, opportunities and value drivers are rigorously quantified and strategically interpreted to inform enterprise‑level decisions.
• Shaping commercial valuations and investment decisions by providing clear insights on the strategic implications, value sensitivities and risk-adjusted outcomes emerging from technical assurance activities.
• Overseeing independent technical reviews to ensure the highest standards of technical rigour are consistently applied, enabling executives to make confident, evidence-based decisions on strategic capital allocation.
• Supporting the enterprise allocation of RCoE and Technical resources to maximise value creation, minimise rework, and optimise capability deployment across the portfolio.
• Providing strategic oversight of Mine Plans by challenging assumptions, strengthening input quality and driving alignment to organisational priorities, ensuring plans translate into strategic objectives of the organisation.
• Mobilising and integrating organisational capabilities by fostering cross‑functional collaboration, knowledge sharing and disciplined ways of working that accelerate performance.

You can be based in Brisbane, Santiago or Denver. 

About You

You are an accomplished mining leader with an ability to shape and deliver complex, large‑scale mining projects—from early concept through execution and successful completion. You are known for pairing technical credibility with commercial judgement, and for setting standards in safety performance, environmental stewardship and sustainable value creation.

Your influence is evident in your leadership of rigorous technical due diligence programs that underpin major acquisition and divestment decisions. You bring direction to evaluation frameworks, synthesize multidisciplinary inputs, and translate complex technical insights into clear, value‑driven recommendations that enable confident decision‑making.

A trusted leader, you build relationships across diverse stakeholders, including regulators, joint‑venture partners and communities, and balance stakeholder expectations while driving alignment to project and organisational objectives. As a people leader, you excel at building and leading high‑performing technical teams, with the ability to develop capability, foster accountability and strengthen culture. You are results‑focused and thrive in dynamic environments where you deliver against multiple, interdependent priorities.

A tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering (or equivalent) is required.

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. 

Apply Now

Welcoming qualified applicants through to 10th May 2026, 11.59 AEST.