Manager Property and Workplace, Portfolio & Projects | Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth
BHP
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
This role will be responsible for the strategic alignment of the Property & Workplace portfolio, projects, programs, and workplace design with business needs. They will identify, initiate, and govern major transactions, projects and other value-adding activity across the portfolio.
Reporting to the Head of Property & Workplace, this role will develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure our portfolio, projects and programs are managed efficiently, sustainably and meeting customer needs and expectations. They will collaborate across the Property & Workplace team to ensure strategy and activity is informed by ‘on the ground’ insights and supports ongoing operational excellence.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced property and projects professional looking to lead a high performing team working on a global portfolio and major world-class projects. The role can be based in any of our BHP offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, or Perth.
Key Accountabilities:
- Engagement at senior leader level and across Property & Workplace team to deeply understand future business needs and key drivers of workplace effectiveness.
- Development and execution of a 5 to 10 year portfolio strategy which enables business strategy; unlocks commercial value; and provides safe, secure and effective workplaces.
- Accountability for major program & project delivery and governance, portfolio strategy and execution, with annual leasing opex circa US$80M and annual major project capex circa US$12M. Accountability for Workplace strategy & standards, ensuring currency to business needs & operational requirements and governance of their application.
- Strategy & Planning: contributes to Global P&W strategy and business planning, strategy and governance of major projects and programs across property portfolio, ensuring realisation of balanced scorecard return on investment.
- Leadership and development of Portfolio & Projects team, including service provider SMEs, creating a centre of delivery excellence.
- Improvement: conducts end-to-end analysis of performance and bench-marking (internal & external) to diagnose problems and identify improvement and innovation opportunities. Conducts research and provides thought leadership on best practice and develops recommendations for continuous improvements.
- Intelligence: maintains strong internal and external network globally, leveraging to inform portfolio and workplace strategy; understanding internal and external emerging requirements, defining and scoping capability requirements to address; and developing plans to test, iterate and implement improvement initiatives, ensuring seamless transition into BAU.
About You
- Experience in leading leaders who are multidisciplinary and work with complex projects and negotiations
- A strategic thinker who connects external and internal context to shape strategy across short and longer term, communicating with clarity to drive confident decision making
- A reputation of care for your team members and a commitment to their growth and development
- Extensive experience in leading a property related function across multiple geographies
- Experience in leading the delivery of large-scale property construction projects in different markets
- Experience in large scale lease / agreement for lease transactions
- Contract negotiation and execution, contract governance and risk management and reporting
- Successful senior stakeholder management across multiple functions and geographies
- Demonstrated track record in commercial value creation
- Experience in exploring and operationalizing new services
- Experience in data analytics to inform strategy and decision making
- Tertiary qualification in Commercial Property advantageous
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.