Manager External Affairs Strategy, Planning & Integrity

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

• The role can be based in Australia (Perth, Adelaide or Brisbane), or Santiago (Chile) or Singapore.
• This vacancy will accept applications until 11:59pm AEST on January 1st 2024. 

The purpose of the External Affairs (EA) Operations team is to enable and amplify the impact of our EA team. The Manager EA Strategy, Planning & Integrity provides leadership to a team focused on developing and coordinating EA-wide strategy, planning and corporate processes, informed by horizon scanning and benchmarking; governing EA wide-systems and processes; and identifying EA-wide improvements.  Reporting to the Head of EA Operations, the role sits on the EA Operations Lead Team and supports EA globally.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design, build and sustain a world class strategy, planning and integrity function for EA.
• Develop and coordinate a future focused EA wide strategy and measure performance.
• Proactively contribute to the long-term strategy of EA, including providing strategic direction based on external trends and identified internal needs.  
• Lead regular horizon scanning, external industry analysis and benchmarking activities. 
• Set and continuously improves processes for core EA-wide strategy, planning, finance, operational, systems, technology and governance activities.
• Lead development and coordination of planning and processes to ensure compliance with key corporate deliverables (including corporate alignment planning (CAP) process, budget, appraisal, cash prioritisation and benchmarking).  
• Support oversight of EA budget management, strategic support and analysis to identify trends and opportunities and improvements.
• Conceptualising, designing and implementing data collection strategies and reporting frameworks to allow systematic data-capture. Provides qualitative and quantitative analysis and data visualisation for planning, decision making and to communicate value of EA.. 
• Maintain and oversee Technology & Innovation Roadmap including in partnership with Technology. 
• Govern all EA-wide systems, data management and processes (e.g. software application portfolio, major and minor works, and administer EA-wide tools).
• Drive EA wide continuous improvement, best practice and operational excellence. Identify EA wide process improvements and partner with sub-functional teams to implement.
• Represent EA at relevant industry groups and establishing relationships with external parties to facilitate horizon scanning and best practice sharing 

About You  

• Experience within or adjacent to the External Affairs space, preferably in a large multi-national corporate environment, or in a top-tier law firm, big 4 firm, or consulting firm.   
• Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team and drive an excellent team culture.
• Commercial/business acumen, and an understanding of the key drivers of shareholder value. Strong understanding or issues and risks impacting the Company and the External Affairs professions, including the impact of technology and analytics. 
• Strong financial management and analysis experience, the ability to wrangle complex data and transform it into business-critical insights.
• Experience developing, implementing, and tracking functional strategy and plans, articulating functional value and performance 
• Experience in planning and managing programs and projects, and driving improvements, engaging and influencing at senior levels. Able to demonstrate strong critical reasoning and analytics skills, quickly grasp technical concepts and apply theories. Able to find creative solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and very strong interpersonal skills. Excellent written and oral communication skills and an aptitude for analysing and synthesising complex information to derive quality insight and communicating these insights in a compelling manner.
• Energetic and driven, able to work well under pressure bringing attention to detail and an ability to meet multiple and competing deadlines.   

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 [email protected].