Principal External Affairs Operations
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
The purpose of the External Affairs (EA) Operations team is to enable and amplify the impact of our EA team. Reporting to the Manager of EA Operations for the Global Corporate Affairs & Communications, Sustainability & Social Value sub-functions, you will provide these teams with strategic support and deliver transformation and improvement initiatives that leave a positive impact on the culture, capabilities, and performance of the teams.
Your responsibilities:
- Act as a subject matter expert who deeply understands our teams’ strategies, needs and challenges and is sought out by the teams for advice, strategic insight, and support.
- Identify, plan, track and manage the delivery of transformation and process improvement opportunities and initiatives.
- Assess technology opportunities and threats and collaborate with the teams (and third party vendors where required) to design, develop and embed relevant technology, software applications, solutions and automated workflows.
- Use your conceptual and technical skills to design technology based solutions that simplify complex reporting, databases and frameworks.
- Work with other business stakeholders (eg. Finance, Procurement, Cyber, Technology) to manage processes and systems as they affect EA. Use your strong interpersonal skills to empower and enable EA teams to navigate these processes and systems in an easy and efficient way.
- Identify opportunities to utilise AI including to monitor risks and opportunities and to enhance outputs and streamline processes.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in business, science, technology, or EA-related field.
- 5-10+ years experience within or adjacent to the EA space, preferably in a large multi-national corporate environment, or in a top-tier law firm, big 4 firm, or consulting firm.
- You have commercial, business, and strategic acumen along with a proven innovation mindset and take responsibility for solving a problem and delivering an outcome.
- Experience managing a high volume of projects, including technology projects (from inception through embedment and BAU).
- Very strong data preparation, collation (from multiple sources and programs), management and visualisation skills (turning raw data into valuable business insights).
- Must have extensive experience using Microsoft Office tools including Excel, Power BI, Power Automate and other low code/no code platforms (such as Nintex).
- Experience and /or formal project management qualifications in Lean, Agile, design thinking and/or similar continuous improvement and project management methodologies, is preferred.
- Other programming language experience, and experience with RPA, AI and Machine Learning, is desirable.
- Experience in a similar improvement or innovation team and/or marketing, legal or other operations team, is desirable.
This job closes on Thursday 10th October 2024
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 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].