Senior Associate - Discovery
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
Digital Product Development is Coal’s approach to rapid opportunity identification, assessment, valuation, and prioritisation of digital products that fundamentally change BHP’s performance across safety, productivity, and people performance.
The (Digital Product Development) DPD Discovery Specialist role extends to the tasks around the Discovery processes and supports our Coal Technology and BMA Function in assessing and valuing the pipeline of potential digital projects, de-risking any product development.
The work
As the DPD Discovery Specialist, you will play a role in the BMA Technology function driving a digital mindset and defining future value solutions for our business.
You will identify where we can find value in our digital pipeline and determine the how for unlocking this value. This role is critical in ensuring only high value opportunities progress to development, as part of the Discovery process.
You will support our Discovery process by working with Technology and business stakeholders to drive outcomes over a short period of time. Taking our customers on the journey.
This pivotal role in a small team of technical and business specialists comes with excellent learning and development opportunities, and exposure to a wide range of business areas.
Key responsibilities are:
- Using technical and business acumen to identify and understand our business problems, respectfully challenging ideas, and prioritizing opportunities based on value.
- Creatively solving problems, and identifying value, using data and understanding of business process.
- Building business partnerships and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders of opportunities, as well as influencing people towards the common goal of value delivery for BMA.
- Cross functional alignment and engagement, including the facilitation of workshops.
- Developing recommendations for the progression (or not) of opportunities into product development, based on value vs effort of a solution.
- Confidently presenting these ideas, results and recommendations to stakeholders, tailoring the narrative / information to the audience.
- Coordinating sessions with external vendors and service providers as part of solution options analysis.
About You
- Industrial, Commercial or Business Qualifications
- Strategic, proactive, and a customer-centric mindset
- Strong communication, presentation (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with ability to produce and clearly articulate outputs of analysis to stakeholders
- Ability to drive collaboration in a cross functional team environment and work effectively across all levels in the organization
- Knowledge of mining industry, preferably Coal
- Basic Data Science / Analytics knowledge
- Hypothesis driven and demonstrated problem-solving skills and continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to operate at a fast pace in a dynamic environment, working to tight deadlines and triaging priorities
- Positive, respectful and empathetic
- Experience with Business Intelligence tools and frameworks advantageous (Spotfire, Tableau, Alteryx, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon Quicksight, or equivalent)
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.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. 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.