Specialist Platforms Strategy

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

In this newly created role, we are seeking a Specialist Platforms Strategy to join the BHP Technology Strategy, Portfolio & Performance (SPP) team. Reporting to the Manager Enterprise & Platform Strategy, this role will provide input and support the vision for enterprise platforms, to scale digital productivity across BHP globally. This individual will own platform components and drive their transformation roadmaps to guide their continual evolution in alignment with other strategic digital priorities including security, data, and software.

Specific accountabilities include:

• Understand BHP's global business operating model to document specific scope components of enterprise platforms including ERP, service management, identity, cloud and data, and their respective opportunities to enable digital productivity at scale 
• Support collaboration with identified internal subject matter experts for specific platform components to incorporate and address current state priorities and challenges
• Support the engagement of targeted external thought leaders and strategic vendors to consider industry trends and product roadmaps and incorporate into BHP’s enterprise platform strategy as appropriate
• Assist with the definition of the high-level reference target-state architecture for enterprise platforms components across BHP globally
• Collaborate with SPP team members and its respective data strategy, software, cloud and emerging digital technologies team members, to coordinate, prioritise and align platform maturity and transformation milestones
• Support the engagements with BHP Commercial’s procurement team to co-develop vendor engagement strategies and priorities in alignment to the defined target-state

The role can be based at our Perth or Brisbane office.

About you

As the successful candidate, you will possess the following:

• Experience working with technical reference architectures at the enterprise business level
• Technical advisory experience especially targeted to technical teams
• Deep curiosity on how evolving digital trends can create scaled business impact
• Relevant undergraduate qualifications in a technical discipline, preferably Engineering or Technology/IT

What we offer

Lifestyle  

• Flexible work, regular work from home. Family friendly. 
• Work engagement can be designed to suit your lifestyle, study, or family needs. Want to work 4 days a week or take all school holidays off? Talk to us!   

High profile and global impact! 

• Opportunity to create the digital future of BHP
• Make global and transformational impacts through technology, across all countries where BHP operates

Stability  

• Be a part of BHP’s long term strategic vision, to unlock the next wave of value from technological advantage. 
• Training and development.
• Large program of work with people, with lots of opportunities to explore other teams, products, and technologies.

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.