Specialist Reward Operations | Manila or KL
Philippines
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.
Purpose of the Role
To execute operational reward and benefits activities while supporting the delivery, governance, continuous improvement, and data-driven management of BHP's reward programs.
The role combines strong analytical capability with HR Reward Operations, ensuring high-quality reward data, reporting, modelling, and insights that support business decision-making. Working in partnership with onshore Reward SMEs and key stakeholders, the Specialist will deliver cyclical and BAU reward activities while driving process improvements, automation opportunities, and data integrity across reward and benefits programs.
About the Role
Reporting to the Lead Reward, this role is responsible for executing Reward Operations activities across remuneration, benefits, job evaluation, reporting, governance, and stakeholder support.
The Specialist will manage operational reward activities while applying a strong focus on data quality, analysis, reporting, and continuous improvement. The role requires the ability to identify trends, derive actionable insights from complex datasets, challenge the status quo, and support informed business decisions through data-driven recommendations.
You will work closely with HR, Reward, Payroll, Finance, Digital and external vendors to ensure reward processes are aligned with BHP Reward Policies, governance requirements, and operational excellence standards.
Benefits Administration
- Support benefit programs including leave, wellness, insurance, and other employee benefit offerings.
- Assist with benefits enrolment, vendor management, contract renewals, compliance monitoring, and employee communications.
- Partner with vendors to resolve operational, data, or system discrepancies.
Process Improvement & Systems Enablement
- Support process optimisation, automation, digitisation, and reporting enhancements.
- Improve workflows, templates, and reporting solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
- Assist with system enhancements, integrations, testing, and implementation of new Reward-related capabilities.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement and proactively identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve customer experience.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with HR, Reward, Payroll, Finance, Digital teams, and external vendors.
- Translate data into meaningful business insights and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Provide support on emerging priorities and ad hoc initiatives aligned to HR Operations strategic objectives.
- Act as workstream lead or key contributor on projects and initiatives as assigned.
About You
Required Experience
- Experience working with HR systems such as SAP, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, or similar platforms.
- Demonstrated experience in data analysis, data quality management, reporting, modelling, or analytics.
- Experience working across HR, Payroll, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholder groups.
Technical Capabilities
- Advanced Excel capability with experience in large-volume data analysis, pivot tables, lookups, formulas, and reporting.
- Knowledge of Power Query, Power BI and other data visualisation transformation and tools is highly preferred
- Experience of process automation tools such as Power Automate or Power Apps is preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with the ability to identify root causes and recommend solutions.
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy, compliance, and data quality principles.
Behavioural Capabilities
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Comfortable taking ownership, seeking clarity, and driving outcomes in ambiguous situations.
- Ability to think strategically while maintaining strong attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to transform complex data into clear business insights.
- Inquisitive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.
- Flexible, adaptable, and willing to challenge existing ways of working.
- Demonstrated learning agility and ability to quickly apply new concepts and technologies.
- Ability to work collaboratively and influence stakeholders to achieve aligned outcomes.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent education and/or relevant experience preferred.
- Fluent English (written and spoken).
Applications are open until 31 Aug 2026.
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.