Manager Decision Evaluation | Copper SA | Adelaide

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.

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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.

The purpose of Decision Evaluation is to lead evaluation activities for decisions related to major capital investments, strategy, planning, and commercial opportunities across the Company so that the value of every business decision is clear and well informed.

We achieve this by providing independent, robust and high-quality economic evaluations of proposed portfolio level decisions and investment opportunities taking into account risks and uncertainties. To maximise our influence, we operate in a collaborative and commercially astute way.

Decision Evaluation is part of the Portfolio Strategy and Development (PS&D) global function which also includes Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Transaction Analysis, Corporate Planning and Strategy & Market Intelligence.

We are seeking candidate at Manager level to join our team in Adelaide supporting the growth of BHP's Copper South Australia business.

Reporting to Head of Decision Evaluation, your accountabilities include:

• Be the trusted advisor for the most important investment decisions and to embed investment best practices, capabilities and technology across the organisation.
• Maintain a wide network of impact, integrates functions, operations and regions and solves complex challenges to drive strong functional/asset integration across BHP.
• Supports the development of BHP's strategy, value chain and competitive landscape and identification of opportunities to deliver superior long-term risk adjusted returns for shareholders and stakeholders.
• Supports the development of commercial opportunities (including transactions) that are aligned with BHP's strategy and portfolio priorities.
• Frames, evaluates, and communicates the risk-reward proposition of strategies, plans and decisions; improves investment methodologies, processes, capabilities and culture to enhance investment decision quality, to maximise the long-term value of BHP.
• Assists Asset leaders make decisions regarding: portfolio capital allocation, investments, functional initiatives, commercial agreements, Business Development proposals and transactions;
• Identifies, engages, and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Plans, tracks the delivery of and manages evaluation support to generate value and drive the achievement of project outcomes.
• Conducts presentations and facilitates workshops using storytelling to connect, influence and engage the audience.
• Applies intelligence on industry trends and market dynamics to drive enhanced decision making and planning.
• Leads and develops an insightful, intellectually curious, value-orientated team of thinkers, capable of robust analyses with a responsive commercial focus.

The successful candidates could come from a diverse range of backgrounds including geology, processing, consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, law or engineering. Irrespective of background, and leveraging strong financial modelling capabilities, they will be able to offer commercial insight, analytical expertise and strategic thinking and have strong communication, influencing and leadership skills.

Primary accountabilities will be to create shareholder value by framing, evaluating and clearly communicating proposed investments to senior decision-makers.

Working either independently or in cross-functional project, planning or commercial teams, you will be required to influence and challenge thinking, develop robust valuations, prepare concisely written reports and clearly articulate outputs and insights to senior management and other key stakeholders.

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• Demonstrated experience with leading a team focusing on financial evaluations to support investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to establish credibility through your strong technical ability, leadership and excellent communication skills.
• Comfortable working with complexity and ambiguity to drive risk and value-based decision making.
• Experience in creating and leading diverse, multidisciplinary teams with proven ability to achieve high quality outputs in a timely manner.
• Effective communications skills with experience preparing for, writing, and presenting to and influencing Senior Management and Business leaders.
• Experience reviewing and understanding multi-disciplinary reports / documents and communicating key outcomes, takeaways, and insights.
• Advanced stakeholder management skills especially with other subject matter experts, senior stakeholders, and external parties.
• Evaluation experience including framing, financial modelling and analysis.
• Completed a relevant tertiary qualification in finance, commerce, law, engineering, or science.
• Experience in mining or natural resources value chain will be advantageous.

Application close on Tuesday, 14 May 2024

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.

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 .

As a world-leading resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through our Singapore and Houston locations.

We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Copper for renewable energy. Nickel for electric vehicles. Potash for sustainable farming. Iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.

A resources mix for today and for the future.

We have over 80,000 employees and you'll find BHP people from the Pilbara to the Bowen Basin, from Saskatchewan to Santiago and from Texas, Trinidad and Tobago to Singapore and Melbourne.

As a world-leading resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through our Singapore and Houston locations.

We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Copper for renewable energy. Nickel for electric vehicles. Potash for sustainable farming. Iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.

A resources mix for today and for the future.

We have over 80,000 employees and you'll find BHP people from the Pilbara to the Bowen Basin, from Saskatchewan to Santiago and from Texas, Trinidad and Tobago to Singapore and Melbourne.

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